Tony Dungy Really Hates The Patriots

One of the things I have enjoyed about Tony Dungy this past year is how he takes any available opportunity to dig the Patriots about their whole signal-stealing scandal. Sometimes it's sarcastic, sometimes it's serious, sometimes it's funny, but it's always on the tip of tongue, ready to again poke at the Bill Belichick's scab like Bart Simpson ("Ow! Quit it.")

For example, Dungy was in Tampa speaking to some high school kids about his book. One student asked him if anything happened last season that he wished he could have put in the book. What oh what could it have been?

"We talk about how important it is to do things the right way and have integrity so that when you do win, people can never ask that question," he said. "That's the great thing that I'm happy about with our team.

"Yes, we won. But no one is really going to ask, 'Did they cheat? Did they do things the right way?' I think our record speaks for itself and if you're a true champion, that's the way you'd like it to be."

Dungy may lament not being able to put that chapter in his book, but he'll have another chance to devote some ink to it soon enough.

Sales have topped 900,000 and co-author Nathan Whitaker said there might be a sequel on the way.

Yeah, "might". The book was wildly popular, exceeded all expectations and sold tons of copies, the author is on the verge of retirement from his day job and he'll have nothing but time on his hands to devote to preaching and ministering. And even without all those factors, you know he'd put another book out just to get the Patriots off his chest.

I still haven't read Dungy's book. I keep meaning to, but I feel like I'm just going to get preached at when I do. I live in Georgia, so if I'm really in the mood for a sermon, they're not hard to find and it will only take an hour to get through as opposed to reading Dungy's book, which will take days. Don't judge me. Why can't publishers just spell out the big words phonetically?

I am, however, just finishing up the Vince Lombardi biography, "When Pride Still Mattered". As opposed to Dungy's quiet strength, this is all about loud, boisterous, angry strength, which I have to believe makes for much more interesting reading. I recommend it.