Sports Editor Dan Zirin Labels Hall of Fame Coach Tony Dungy an “Anti-gay Bigot” After Former Coach Announces March for Life Attendance

After Tony Dungy announced that he would be speaking at the March for Life in Washington D.C., Dave Zirin, The Nation’s sports editor, wrote an entire article attacking Tony Dungy.

“I’m done with Tony Dungy and the way the NFL and NBC coddle his right wing extremism,” tweeted Zirin. “So I wrote a piece about it.”

In his piece, he rips into Dungy’s almost immediately, starting his tirade by saying that Dungy “has spent years as an anti-gay bigot.”

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Zirin said that Dungy once said “publicly and proudly  that he would not want gay football player Michael Sam on his team. He said over a decade ago that he disagreed with the ‘lifestyle’ of Jason Collins, the first out active male gay player in the main four North American sports. This is a Dungy staple, calling being LGBT a ‘lifestyle,’ even after people have said to him repeatedly how hurtful and outdated such a description is. He simply doesn’t care.”

Additionally, the editor went after NBC and NFL. “celebrating” Dungy’s views. Although he does not explicitly mention it in the article, Dungy followed up with a tweet doubled his attack.

“One thing I hint at but don’t say explicitly – and I should have – is that the NFL and many at NBC celebrate Dungy (not tolerate, celebrate0 because they share his politics,” Zirin

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In the actual piece, Zirin said “This is a staggering indictment of the politics the NFL and the network’s partners allow and the kind that they condemn. When someone like, gee, I don’t know, Colin Kaepernick steps up and kneels down to end police violence and racial inequity, he becomes a pariah. Dungy is still portrayed as a religious man and almost a patron saint for the league. Dungy has used his devoutness as a cover for his anti-gay rhetoric and sharing platforms with unapologetic bigots…

“If Dungy wants a show on ‘The Daily Wire,’ more power to him,” He continues. “But his being center stage on the most watched program in the country makes NBC and the NFL complicit in his disinformation and political posturing. Like Dungy, neither NBC nor the NFL has commented about his latest eruption. But their silence speaks volumes. It’s a silence that’s almost as loud as Dungy’s hateful blather, almost as loud as the thousands of people descending upon Washington—some mandatorily—to celebrate a fascistic, discredited Supreme Court and the loss of our rights. It’s shameful. And we should not be afraid to say so.”

For context, the March for Life in Washington D.C. is an annual march where peacefully and lawfully protests the murder of babies. Yesterday, Dungy announced that he would speak on the main stage of the event for the first-time.

Dungy had announced on Twitter his excitement to attend so that he and others could  be there “to support those unborn babies who don’t have a voice.”

Dungy is well-known for his coaching of the Indianapolis Colts and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He currently hosts “Football Night in America.”

You can check out Dungy’s full speech from this year’s March for Life below:

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