If you haven’t figured it out, Here at the Highbrid Nation we’re dedicated to discussions you probably won’t here on the carbon copy blogs as I like to call them.  We don’t report the news here much but give you a new way of thinking about the news you’re probably already aware of.

Yesterday most of you were parked on a coach somewhere, brew in hand, maybe wings or pizza in the belly watching the football games.  As we now know Drew Brees and his New Orleans Saints advanced to the franchise’s first Superbowl while Peyton Manning and his Indianapolis Colts will try to make it 2 rings in the last 4 years thus cementing his status as perhaps the best quarterback of all times.  Let the Superbowl hype begin.  Lets see of course there will be the Peyton Manning coronation story.  Oh and perhaps story of how the Saints are reaching their first Superbowl as one the one of the franchise’s greatest QB’s, Archie Manning looks on and roots for the other side.

But I doubt too many will talk about little known Colts Head Coach, Jim Caldwell, becomes just the fourth black Quarterback in NFL history to reach the Superbowl but the forth in the last four years and the second for the Colts.  Imagine that?  We’re now up to Superbowl XLIV (44) and it took 40 years for us to see a black coach but since then they’ve dominated?  Lets dig deeper.  Of the 32 NFL teams only 5 implored black coaches this year and all except 2nd year coach, Mike Singletary reached the playoffs in the last two years.

Now I’m not here to say black coaches are superior, that’s stupid.  Just like white coaches or players are not inferior.  I think however, we as minorities often spend so much time on the picket line looking for equality that we fail to recognize the acheivements of the very few have broken barriers to acheive greatness.

Salute to Coach Caldwell and all those before him that made it possible.