{"id":283,"date":"2009-01-13T09:26:53","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T13:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=283"},"modified":"2009-09-02T12:24:40","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T16:24:40","slug":"tony-dungy-retires-from-coaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/13\/tony-dungy-retires-from-coaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Dungy Retires from Coaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Dungy, the head football coach of the Indianapolis Colts and outspoken Christian advocate, has retired from coaching. (<a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/nfl\/news\/story?id=3827058\">ESPN<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colts.com\/sub.cfm?page=article7&#038;news_id=869cabcd-5f4f-4491-9d6f-73689ebdfd5b\">Colts<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/christianpost.com\/Entertainment\/Figures\/2009\/01\/tony-dungy-trades-football-for-family-social-work-13\/index.html\">ChristianPost<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The news reports follow a consistent theme:\u00a0 Dungy has always said that coaching was a career, not a &#8220;life mission.&#8221;\u00a0 His faith, family, and football were his priorities&#8211;in that order.\u00a0 He considered his position as a <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=151\">public platform<\/a> for his faith.\u00a0 He wrote a book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/reviews.htm#strength\">Quiet Strength<\/a><\/em>, that described those efforts in his life to put God first in a world where that wasn&#8217;t often rewarded.<\/p>\n<p>His example of a man in an awe-inspiring, enviable position&#8211;and the example he gave of a Christian in that field&#8211;was a model for Christians in many places, including those in the military.\u00a0 He won an Air Force <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=135\">award<\/a>, and his perspective on life priorities was previously discussed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=158\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In one of his more interesting quotes, Dungy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2009\/01\/13\/sports\/DUNGY.php\">said<\/a> the\u00a0accomplishment of which he was most proud\u00a0was<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>proving to the NFL that there was more than one way for a successful coach to behave. In a sport that venerates the sleepless control freak, Dungy was a man apart, unfailingly positive, eschewing the dour countenance so prevalent on the sideline.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dungy truly is a man apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Dungy, the head football coach of the Indianapolis Colts and outspoken Christian advocate, has retired from coaching. (ESPN, Colts, ChristianPost) The news reports follow a consistent theme:\u00a0 Dungy has always said that coaching was a career, not a &#8220;life mission.&#8221;\u00a0 His faith, family, and football were his priorities&#8211;in that order.\u00a0 He considered his position as a public platform for [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,3],"tags":[68],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-living","category-culture","tag-tony-dungy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}