Super Bowl - Nobody survives a storm better than Tony Dungy.

By Jason Cole, Yahoo! Sports
February 4, 2007,

MIAMI – Nobody survives a storm better than Tony Dungy.

Dungy didn't need a Super Bowl victory to define his professional career and personal life. But on Sunday, the football gods and whatever other deity you might believe in finally gave Dungy the championship so many people wanted him to capture.

Appropriately, Dungy and the Indianapolis Colts won that title with a 29-17 win over the Chicago Bears in the first Super Bowl ever played in a driving rain. Not that a little inclement weather was going to spoil anything. Rather, it would be a reminder of what helped the Colts arrive here after four years of playoff struggles under Dungy.

"(I'm) very proud of our guys because it didn't go smooth," Dungy said. "It wasn't the easy road, it was a tough road. But I think the Lord really prepared us … we talked about it last night that it would be some storms in the game."

Figurative storms, mostly.

After all, Dungy lost his first head coaching job with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after a series of disappointing postseason runs, only to see the man who followed him (Jon Gruden) lead the Bucs to a title the next year. In December 2005, Dungy went through a parent's worst nightmare when he buried his eldest son James after a suicide.

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