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Professional football is a very mean business, both on and off the field. Yesterday, one of the finest men from that field, Bucs head coach Tony Dungy bid farewell. Dungy had been doomed by his own stubbornness, a refusal to bring his offense up to NFL speed. That aside, Tony Dungy is a class man, one not deserving of the method by which he relieved.

The rumor mill has been cranking since last Super Bowl that a change was coming, and Bill Parcells would replace Dungy. As the 2001 season was coming to an end, the rumors implicated if Dungy did not beat Philadelphia, he was out. There were no efforts by the team owners to quell the rumors; it was a test balloon. Some say a tentative deal had been struck with Parcells, a man who once stood up the Bucs at the altar. He accepted the job and then backed out back in the mid 90's.

You would think his players would have gone to bat for Dungy, by merely showing up and giving of themselves in the 31-9 loss to the Eagles. Warren Sapp was a one-man show, not on the field, but on the sidelines before the game, taunting the Eagles fans at a time when Tony Dungy wanted to take the crowd out of the game.

Some of the rudest treatment Tony Dungy got was from some of his own players, namely Sapp. They let him down time and time again.

That's how I see it!