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Article: Faith, friendship helped Dungy capture Super Bowl history.(Tony Dungy)
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- February 19, 2007
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As the rain pounded Dolphin Stadium in Miami on Super Bowl Sunday and Indianapolis struggled to come back from Chicago's early touchdown, Colts head coach Tony Dungy turned to his faith to bring him through this latest storm.
By the fourth quarter, his prayers were answered.
"We talked about it--'It's going to be a storm. Sometimes you have to work for it,'" Dungy told his team before the Colts' come-from-behind win.
Dungy-going to battle against his close friend, Lovie Smith-made history that day as the first Black coach to win a Super Bowl by leading his Indianapolis Colts over the Chicago Bears 29-17. This was also the first Super Bowl to ...