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Super Bowl chief coach Tony Dungy reflected on Charlie Kirk’s commemorative service on Tuesday.
Thousands of mourners went to the State Farm stadium in Glendale, Arizona, during the weekend in honor of the 31 -year -old conservative influential, who was killed in an event at the University of Utah Valley earlier this month.
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Tony Dungy in the NBC sports was set before the game between Los Angeles Rams and the Buffalo Bills in the Sofi Stadium on September 8, 2022. (Kirby Lee/USA Today Sports)
Erika Kirk, Charlie’s wife, was among them to give moving speeches. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk were also among those who spoke in the service.
“I think people were energized and I appreciated it a lot,” Dungy said in “No Dakich” from Outkick. “He takes out all politics. Just say: ‘We are going to honor the life of this man. We are going to talk about what Christ would say and what he wants to see, and I thought it was done.
“You’re never going to get politics completely. But I thought the essence of that was exactly what it should be.”
Dungy did not attend the event. At least one sports figure in the world of sport was there: the rookie of the Chicago puppies, Matt Shaw.
Attendees react during a monument to conservative activist Charlie Kirk, on Sunday, September 21, 2025, at the State Farm stadium in Glendale, Arizona. (AP Photo/Julia DeMaree Nikhinson)
The Mets announcers criticize the Matt Shaw puppy player for leaving the team to attend Charlie Kirk’s funeral
Shaw was a friend of Charlie Kirk and had taken a photo with him with his teammate Michael Busch in Wrigley Field in the weeks before his death.
Shaw explained why he left the team to attend the service on Tuesday.
“My connection with Charlie was through our [Christian] Faith, “Shaw said before the puppies opened a new series with the New York Mets, through Chicago Sun-Times.” And that is something that drives me every day, the reason I can do what I do every day, and that is something I am extremely grateful.
“I know without my faith and without the many blessings that have given me in my life, that I would not be here, to be able to talk to you, capable of helping this team eventually go and win championships.
A tribute to Charlie Kirk is shown in the Jumbotron before an automotive race of the Nascar Cup series, on Saturday, September 13, 2025, in Bristol, Tennessee. (Photo AP/Wade Payne)
“That is something I really feel, very blessed, so any violent reaction is fine. I feel strong with my faith and what was destined to happen.”
