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It is a story in that it has been 60 years since professional sports became integrated, and only now are there enough black head coaches that two could beat the odds and find themselves going head to head in the Super Bowl.

Tony Dungy is something of an icon to the black community, and he should be an icon to professional sports in general. He has long tenure in the NFL, a history of improving flagging teams, and he has mentored a lot of other black coaches who subsequently call him friend, and attribute part of their success to his tutelage. KC's Herm Edwards is one of them, so we hear a lot about Tony here in Chiefs land.

Two black NFL coaches meeting in the Superbowl shouldn't be newsworthy...but it is, if only because there's just no good damn reason why it should have taken this long for that circumstance to occur.