Hagiography Watch

2:45 am EST January 13th, 2009 | Sports | 5 Comments

Tony Dungy is clearly one of the “good guy” coaches in the NFL, but is there any reason to label him, as the Washington Post’s Sally Jenkins does, a “Champion Of Decency“? At the end of the day Dungy is/was a football coach, not some sort of major leader or whatnot. I don’t know, maybe I’m being too sensitive but it seems like title inflation. This might also be because I think Jenkins is the bottom of the WaPo’s stable of sports columnists, providing little in the way of actual insight.

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5 Responses to “Hagiography Watch”

  1. anon says:
    January 13, 2009 at 8:02 am

    Don’t you know the rules? The more you go on and on about your religion, the better person you are. Public piety is the only measure of decency.

  2. steno says:
    January 13, 2009 at 9:56 am

    Wow. Just…Wow.

    I suspect the next four years are going to be quite a festival of cognitive dissonance and disappointment for you.

    I wonder what you and your fellow travelers would have to say if someone, anyone, in the wide cyberuniverse would have written this:

    “Barack Obama is clearly one of the ‘good guy’ politicians in the Democratic Party, but is there any reason to compare him, as Oliver Willis and other have, to John F. Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Superman and Jesus Christ? At the end of the day Obama is a handsome man, an eloquent reader of TelePrompTers, and a well-educated but typically ruthless Chicago Machine politician, but he’s done nothing to prove himself as any sort of major leader or what not. I don’t know, maybe I’m just being too sensitive but it seems like title inflation. This might also be because I think Willis is the a bottom feeder even among typical left-wing bloggers, providing much snark but nothing in the way of actual insight.”

    But I bet I won’t have to wonder very long…

  3. liberalrob says:
    January 13, 2009 at 10:48 am

    Yeah, it’s a puff piece, but all well-liked coaches get those when they retire.

  4. Oliver Willis says:
    January 13, 2009 at 12:02 pm

    Yes, the president of the United States and a football coach are exactly the same level. Jesus.

  5. Rev. Bob says:
    January 14, 2009 at 7:23 pm

    Dungy was unable to deflect God’s wrath from the Irsay family for stealing the Colts from Baltimore, so any prayers he offers on Obama’s behalf will probably be routed to heavenly voicemail.