LOREN ELLIOTT | Times
ST. PETERSBURG — On Saturday, Tony Dungy will become the first African-American head coach in the modern era to be enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Raiders great Art Shell went in primarily as a player. Saturday will be history.
Just as it was history the night Dungy became the first African-American NFL coach to win Super Bowl XLI in 2007, when his Indianapolis Colts defeated his friend Lovie Smith's Chicago Bears.
"Just like I said at the Super Bowl, I'm happy, I'm proud," Dungy said. "But I also I know I shouldn't have been the first.