Seahawks Have Ties to Dungy
Seahawks pride has spilled all over Seattle this football season, as the ‘hawks have become the best worst team in the league. This Saturday, they’ll host the number one team, the Colts, on home ground, playing a game that could clech home field advantage for the play-offs. Big, exciting news for a fan of either team…
…and now sadly overshadowed by the apparent suicide of James Dungy, son of Colts head coach Tony Dungy.
The ties that exist between Dungy and the Seahawks is more than the superficial of the upcoming Saturday. Seahawks defensive tackle Chartric Darby was a rookie in Tampa Bay the final season Dungy coached the Buccaneers, while Tim Ruskell, Seattle’s president of football operations, was Tampa Bay’s scouting director and then its player personnel director during Dungy’s Buccaneers tenure. Beyond that, Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren quietly calls Dungy a good family friend.
Dungy won’t be at Saturday’s game, and the family tragedy is going to cast a pallor over the game no matter how it plays out. Holmgren acknowledges it’s going to be hard to coach the game, with everything the Colts are enduring, but the game must go on. And so it will…just, sadly.
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That is so sad, truly. I wonder if the Hawks will wear black armbands. If I were Holmgren, and knew that the Colts were wearing the black armbands, I would ask my team to wear them, too.