NFL Football Wire
Letter to the NFL (& its Owners)
The Racial Ceiling in Head Coaches Goes On
Race
The National Football League, that corporate entertainment organism that owns Sunday (and Monday & Thursday sort of) has a race problem with its head coach hiring practices. I am not ordering them to fix it but I am pointing it out.
So here goes. Another NFL head coach gig came open this past week. Frank Reich, head coach of the Indianapolis Colts, was fired. And almost before anyone could read the account of his demise, former Colts player, Jeff Saturday, a man with ZERO days experience as a coach in the NFL was named interim head coach.
For that reason, the Colts, under the NFL’s Rooney Rule, did not have to consider “minority” candidates or in other words, coaches who aren’t classified in America as “white.”
People did complain. But in the end, Colts' management did not break any rules. According to the rules (The Rooney Rule), the Colts did not have to consider non-white candidates for an in-season hire. How convenient.
‘Minority?’
I am not going to beef much with the rule itself but I do think the league has a language issue here and in turn, a perception issue. African Americans are not a…
