Broncos fan is heckled by his teacher

BEAVER FALLS, Pa. - A 17-year-old high school student said he was humiliated when a teacher made him sit on the floor during a midterm exam in his ethnicity class - for wearing a Denver Broncos jersey.

The teacher, John Kelly, forced Joshua Vannoy to sit on the floor and take the test Friday - two days before the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Broncos in the AFC Championship game. Kelly also made other students throw crumpled-up paper at Vannoy, whom he called a "stinking Denver fan," Vannoy told the Associated Press on Monday.

Kelly said Vannoy, a junior at Beaver Area Senior High School, just didn't get the joke.

"If he felt uncomfortable, then that's a lesson; that's what (the class) is designed to do," Kelly told The Denver Post. "It was silly fun. I can't believe he was upset."

Vannoy said he was so unnerved he left at least 20 questions blank on the 60- question test, and just wants out of Kelly's class because he's afraid the teacher won't treat him fairly now that the story reached the media.

Kelly, who wore a Ben Roethlisberger jersey Friday, and his principal, Thomas Karczewski, didn't immediately return messages left on their school voice mail Monday.

COLTS: Tony Dungy needed one week to decide he still wants to be an NFL coach.

The team said Dungy would return as its coach next season, ending speculation he might retire after the death of his 18-year-old son, James, last month.

"I was always coming back unless I said I wasn't," he said through the team.

Dungy and team president Bill Polian were en route to the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Ala., on Monday and were unavailable for comment.

BILLS: In Orchard Park, N.Y., Dick Jauron didn't need to attend Yale to learn what it'll take to make his second stint as an NFL head coach more successful than his first.

"In our business, it comes out in wins and losses. And if you win, it was a great decision. And if you don't win, it was not a great decision," Jauron said Monday after being hired. "And we know that our back is against the wall to win."

Jauron coached the Chicago Bears for five seasons, going 35-46 with one playoff appearance before being fired in 2003. Buffalo general manager Marv Levy chose Jauron to replace Mike Mularkey, who resigned two weeks ago.

REDSKINS: In Ashburn, Va., Joe Gibbs formally introduced Al Saunders as "associate head coach-offense." The former Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator will call the plays and essentially replace Gibbs as the offense's chief game-planner.

Gibbs wooed Saunders last week, even as Saunders was still considered a candidate for head coaching openings in Oakland and Houston. Saunders said Gibbs told him: "I don't know if I can do those 20-hour days anymore." Saunders was offered a three-year contract worth about $6 million.

SAINTS: New coach Sean Payton hired Cowboys assistant Gary Gibbs as defensive coordinator.

Gibbs was the linebackers coach in Dallas for the past four seasons. He worked alongside Payton, who was the Cowboys' assistant head coach and quarterbacks coach for the last three years.