The NFL's Rooney Rule is a Distraction || Why Fans Are Missing the Real Issues
The Rooney Rule is back in the headlines after the Florida Attorney General threatened the NFL with civil rights action, demanding they drop the policy entirely. But if you are pounding the table to defend the Rooney Rule, you are falling for a massive distraction.
We are cutting through the performative "box-checking" of NFL billionaires and the misguided legal threats from Florida to get to the real issues threatening Black NFL players. From decades of unchecked coaching nepotism to the upcoming CBA negotiations over 18-game seasons and turf fields, we break down why the race of the man…
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