The Rooney Rule has been the centerpiece of the NFL’s initiative to expand opportunities for minority coaches and front office executives for more than two decades. Now, it is under attack.
Florida attorney general James Uthmeier called on the NFL to suspend the Rooney Rule in a social media post and a letter sent to commissioner Roger Goodell this week. Uthmeier characterized the policy as “blatant race and sex discrimination” and threatened legal action if the league does not comply by May 1.
The NFL acknowledged receipt of the letter and responded with a statement from executive vice president Jeff Miller (via ESPN’s Kalyn Kahler): “We believe our policies are consistent with the law and reflect our commitment to fairness, opportunity, and building the strongest possible teams.”
The Rooney Rule, named for late Steelers owner and then-chair of the league’s Workplace Diversity Committee, was instituted in 2002. Tony Dungy and Dennis Green, two of the league’s three minority coaches, had just been fired – Dungy after a winning season and Green after his first losing season in a decade. The original rule required teams to interview one ethnic-minority candidate for head coaching vacancies. It has since expanded in a number of ways to cover other positions and include women in the definition of minority candidate.
Teams are now required to in-person interviews with two minority candidates for head coaching, general manager, and primary football executive positions. Two candidates are also required for coordinator jobs, though they may be conducted virtually. One minority candidate must be interviewed for quarterback coach openings, as the position has become a popular pipeline for future head coaches.
The league also introduced a system to reward teams who developed minority talent. If a minority coach or executive leaves for head coaching or general manager jobs with another team, the original club will third-round compensatory picks in future drafts.
The results are undeniable. Seven teams hired a total of seven minority coaches from the start of the NFL’s modern era in 1970 to the institution of the rule in 2002. The Colts hired Dungy as their head coach that offseason, and the Bengals hired Marvin Lewis the year after. Green returned to a top job with the Cardinals in 2004, and by 2005, there were six minority head coaches in the league. Previously, there were never more than three at a time; since then, there have not been fewer than four.
The NFL has clearly accomplished its goal of expanding coaching and front office opportunities for minorities, but the Rooney Rule is still not perfect. Brian Flores‘ lawsuit brought the issue of sham interviews – conducted only to fulfill league requirements as opposed to legitimate consideration to be hired – into the spotlight, and the 2026 hiring cycle represented significant regression for minority candidates. Despite 10 openings, tied for the most in league history, Robert Saleh was the only minority to land a head coaching job.
Now, the rule is in danger, at least in Florida. The NFL is reviewing Uthmeier’s letter, which was also sent to the league’s three teams within his jurisdiction: the Buccaneers, Dolphins, and Jaguars. But other states could follow suit, especially those with leadership from the Republican Party, which has been leading nationwide efforts to end diversity-based hiring policies.
Art Rooney II – who succeeded his father in Pittsburgh and as the chair of the the NFL’s renamed DEI Committee – said (via Kahler) that the league has “an obligation to make sure that our policies comply with the laws.”
“That’s just the environment we’re existing in today,” he added.
Let’s be honest here…what really has the Rooney rule done to advance diverse hirings because there were 10 head coaching jobs available this off season and how many hired minority head coaches 🤔 they simply brought in candidates to check off a “box” …rule isn’t working …..
It is working. Teams are complying and interviewing minority candidates BY FORCE. It doesn’t force any team to hire a minority coach. I also notice that the article didn’t include Hispanic/Latino head coaches/coaches or Asian coaches in the list of minorities.
The legality of forcing people to interview certain people based solely on their ethnic backgrounds should be challenged, because it is discrimination.
They didn’t hire minority head coaches because none of the coaches met the criteria they needed.
Some coaches are better as coordinators (Vance Joseph, Lovie Smith, Mike McDaniel, etc) while some are just simply not the right fit. Minority coaches usually tend to be more defense minded and old school (though that seems to be changing a bit in recent years), and teams often are not looking for that or especially aren’t looking for old school defensive coaches and rather for innovative young ones. I think Christian Parker will get an opportunity if his coordinator gig in Dallas goes well, just like Vance Joseph and others before him have.
It remains to be seen if Saleh is indeed a true head coach this time around or if Joseph for example ever gets another shot after resurrecting his career as a defensive coordinator.
Teams are trending away from the old school Mike Tomlin types and towards the innovative young guys who come up with concepts the same way Tony Dungy did and the same way Robert Saleh does.
Nice that the attorney general of Florida doesn’t have anything better to do.
Fighting racism is a good fight, no matter where you find it.
Cute try lol.
“ The original rule required teams to interview one ethnic-minority candidate for head coaching vacancies. It has since expanded in a number of ways to cover other positions and include women in the definition of minority candidate.
Teams are now required to in-person interviews with two minority candidates for head coaching, general manager, and primary football executive positions.”
So you’re saying deciding someone is qualified for a position based on skin color, race, ethnicity isn’t racist?
“Sir you are African America so you are hired” seems a little racist to me compared to “sir your extensive experience and recommendations amongst your peers was the deciding factor as to why we hired you”
And why hasn’t the rule helped Hispanic Americans Asian Americans and other non black minorities since its inception?
Canales is the only Hispanic head coach currently
No Asian head coaches
3 black head coaches
If we go back to the rules inception in 2002 how many black vs. non black non white hires as HC have we had?
There have been zero Asian head coaches in the NFL since 2002
There have been two Hispanic (Latino) full-time head coaches in the NFL since 2002
Ron Rivera
Dave Canales
Quick AI search says somewhere between 20-26 black full time head coaches since the Roony Rule inception. I wonder if it’s counting only coaches who completed full seasons and leaving out some who were fired mid season at some point.
Either way numbers speak for themselves
No one is forcing anyone to hire anyone.
Which is why Hispanics and Asians are aren’t well represented here you’re right. It’s not doing much to advance minorities in the NFL up the coaching ranks and management ranks
What a bizarre canard you’ve chosen. The number one pool from which coaches emerge is from former college and pro players. There are far fewer Asian and Hispanic players than there are Black players.
“ The number one pool from which coaches emerge is from former college and pro players.”
So you’re saying that’s fine?
Cause I’d argue a guy who’s good at Madden wins tournaments could potentially be a good coach in an offensive defensive position and work his way up the ranks
So you’re defending supporting a system that inherently disqualifies Hispanics and Asians cause they didn’t “play”
Seems like that should be the purpose of the Rooney Rule rather than focusing on whether or not someone is a minority…….opening up broader avenues for people to enter coaching rankings
Of all the obviously stupid comments you’ve made in this thread, this one is the most obviously stupid.
It’s stupid to suggest broadening candidates for coaching positions?
Seems like a more useful endeavor than telling teams considering someone for a position cause of their skin color. Defending that position is a low IQ move
Getting qualified candidates interviews is different than suggesting Madden players be brought into the coaching ranks.
Are you saying madden players don’t understand for instance
Defensive alignment
Gap schemes
Techniques
Zone vs man
3-4 vs 4-3 vs sub packages
Cause I’d argue they definitely know them better than you do sitting on the couch on sundays
I said get them in the coaching ranks such as a defensive assistant like a lower ranking position to begin with
I didn’t say make them defensive coordinator or assign them a skill position group to start
Understanding those things on a Madden level has nothing to do with ability to teach, install, or coach those things to a room of players.
“ ability to teach, install, or coach those things to a room of players.”
Which is why I said give them an entry level position working with said coaches and they can work their way up the coaching ranks once they learn those skills
You’re creating your own anti Rooney Rule and you don’t even know it lmao
Just replace Madden with the word minority and you’re actually arguing against the Rooney Rule
“ ability to teach, install, or coach those things to a room of players.”
Weird I don’t remember you saying those should also be qualifications for the Romney Rule that states someone just has to be a minority. But suddenly they’re important and necessary when it comes to Madden players
So you are saying that skin color is a qualification for a job? Because that’s what the Rooney Rule is enforcing.
Well, the number of Madden Players that are Head Coaches in the NFL is an extreme minority. Maybe we need a Madden Rule. After all, the idea is to open up the pool for potential candidates, right? It has nothing to do with skin color or anything. You should be all for it. Maybe we should have a Cheerleader Rule, and a Train Conductor Rule.
There is nothing in the Rooney Rule that hints at “qualified.” The only qualification for the rule is skin color. Period. That’s racist and discriminatory.
“Cause I’d argue a guy who’s good at Madden wins tournaments could potentially be a good coach in an offensive defensive position and work his way up the ranks”
You’re joking, right? Madden playbooks combined with and a broken simulation engine are closer to arcade games of the 70s/80s than anything resembling real life.
@myaccount2
Sit this one out
49ers hired Katie Sowers as an offensive assistant with 0 coaching experience undermining Ooooooooooooof’s, cause he’s full of bad takes, “ ability to teach, install, or coach those things to a room of players.”
She played in the Women’s alliance football league or whatever which is essentially high school varisty football for women competition level wise
If she qualified to be given an offensive assistant position with the 49ers
Then a Madden player who plays or played in high school and wins tournaments is definitely qualified to be given an offensive or defensive assistant job from an NFL team
You’re constantly proving to everyone youre uneducated on these subjects in many ways myaccount2
They are being forced to interview minorities. And it was ironic when the black Minnesota GM and Chicago GM were forced to interview minority candidates. Almost embarrassing? Imagine how these candidates feel going through a shame interview? It’s insulting. Time to end the Rooney Rule.
Obviously no one is saying “Sir, you’re African-American so you’re hired”. It just doesn’t happen. There were just ten head coach openings, nine were filled with white dudes.
This stuff simply is made up bullsh*t nonsense for white people who are failures in life and are too gutless to recognize their own shortcomings.
“ Obviously no one is saying “Sir, you’re African-American so you’re hired”
Read the rule lmao
The original rule required teams to interview one ethnic-minority candidate for head coaching vacancies.
Teams are now required to in-person interviews with two minority candidates for head coaching, general manager, and primary football executive positions
The only qualifying word in the original and updated rule is minority nothing else like
Experience
Recommendations
Reputation
Results
If you adjusted the rule to say
Minorities with at least
X amount of years coaching at some level
Y recommendations from fellow coaches or management
Z players input being coached under said individual
W players that have progressed under their coaching and guidance
Then you’d had a case to say it’s not just being a minority that’s the deciding the factor
The rule literally says the only qualifier you need is be a minority. That’s it
White coaches regularly get coordinator and head coach jobs over Black coaches with far more qualifications.
K. Asians and Hispanics are still under represented and you’re defending supporting systems in place that keep it that way
You keep grasping at this very strange choice of straw.
The rule was designed to help minorities
Are Asians and Hispanics suddenly not minorities in your world cause it doesn’t fit your preconceived notions?
Citation needed.
Bill Bellicheck hiring his son who became defensive coordinator and followed him to North Carolina
Andy Reid’s kids working for the two organizations
Tons of coaches white and black have had teams hire family members in different capacity for the organization through the year
Tomlin hired the son of his late mentor bill stewart who gave him his first coaching job at Wesr Virginia
Well that’s the one thing you’re right about, DroppedBallFour. Coaches do hire their children or the children of people they’re close to.
I see nothing wrong with that though. Bill’s son is really good at what he does.
Reid’s kids imo is the most egregious of the hires because they really had no business being near the NFL in a field related capacity.
I agree nothing wrong with it
But sometimes who you know is more important than what you know and that’s not just an NFL thing
NBA
MLB
Mega corporations
It is what it is really but it does happen
The only people with TDS are people who can look at an obviously corrupt, incompetent man wrecking things across the board and still think he has any business being president.
So you’ll gladly pay more at the pump to stop Russias invasion of Ukraine
But won’t pay more at the pump to end an Iranian regime that supported child arranges marriages and enforced Sharia law on women
Hmmmmm interesting
Not to mention murdered thousands of Iranian protesters.
Even if this were a coherent point, it would require the assumption that this war on Iran were legal, competently thought out and run, or that regime change in Iran was something this country could predictably do well.
There’s nothing illegal about the war in Iran.
Iran has been causing the terrorism in the Middle East for decades and has killed countless Americans overseas. Their IRGC is rightly now labeled a terrorist organization by the international community.
Iran is a false regime born entirely through bloodshed and revolution. It is not democratically elected and is a serial human rights abuser.
Going to war without Congressional approval is illegal. The regime was in charge in the first place because of US regime change decades ago. Now the same guy’s son is in charge, violence from Iran has escalated, the whole region is further destabilized, global trade is messed up, and we’ve got troops headed to another bogus war with a drunken TV personality as secretary of defense.
It’s not illegal, actually. This is a misconception.
I’m sorry, what? No. It most definitely isn’t. The US supported the Shah one thousand percent. They and the British were by far the biggest reason he was in power. The Ayatollahs were most definitely in no way supported by us.
Violence from Iran hasn’t escalated. Iran has been doing this through its proxy terrorist armies for decades.
Iran is literally the ones destabilizing the region in order to create strict Islamic Republics across the Middle East.
You really need to educate yourself on the situation before you make these claims.
Ah yes a “drunken TV personality” who served multiple tours in combat and advanced through the ranks for years. Totally a “TV personality”. And totally worse than a former Raytheon exec who lied about his military record repeatedly and did everything he could to get us into another war so his former employer could make money.
Nice try man. The rest of us don’t have to humor you that these aren’t incompetent people who are corrupt to the gills.
You don’t speak for anybody but yourself.
When was war declared? I don’t remember war ever being declared
Congress has not formally declared war since World War II, presidents (Trump and not Trump) have frequently used military force in Korea, Vietnam, and the Middle East, often based on broader, long-term congressional authorizations like the 2001 AUMF
Trump and presidents before him have often asserted inherent authority to launch military strikes without prior congressional approval
No, they’re the people so obsessed with Trump that they make everything about him.
And that’s hilarious considering we had one of the most corrupt and incompetent presidents in history for four years between the two Trump terms.
And yet you think Joe Biden had any business being in office. The man who actually wrecked everything.
lol I’m no big Biden fan, but Trump has done vast damage that has nothing to do with Biden.
You understand Biden literally made October 7th financially possible by unfreezing Iranian assets, right? He also had an Iranian spy high in the state department years after she was outed as a spy.
Biden did so much damage to this country that it’ll take decades to undo.
He also weakened our military over and over while blustering towards nuclear powers and other countries that would’ve obliterated us in war.
Really? You’re talking about security leaks under Biden when we’ve got this clown car in bed with Saudi and Qatar?
Name a security leak we’ve had under Trump. I’ll wait.
Name a spy he’s compromised us with by hiring them for part of his administration years after they were outed as a spy. I’ll wait.
You are so obsessed with Trump it’s ridiculous.
We have ALWAYS been in bed with Saudi and Qatar.
Hegseth literally invited the editor of The Atlantic to an illegal and insecure classified meeting on Signal.
Yeah, no. That person later admitted to basically sneaking into the chat.
Even if that were true, it would still be a dangerously and illegally unsecured meeting that was leaked.
What they did leaking that chat is illegal but hey that doesn’t matter right because Orange Man Bad!
Yes, reporting on crimes is the real crime.
Lol now this is complete nonsense, Oooof. No, they don’t.
If you add stipulations then the owners would be bound to apply those to white candidates as well.
No more Sean McVay’s getting head coaching jobs at 32.
Is it a sham in its current form? I’d say no, because it gets candidates who otherwise would be ignored to get in front of the right people with the only guarantee is that they get a chance to sit in front of the right people they still have to impress those people.
This will fail in court because they aren’t forcing the hiring of minority candidates.
And before someone goes, “what about Whitey?! It’s so unfair!!!” White is the default setting in our nation.
Sure all candidates should be bound by the same rules I can agree to that
0 Asian head coaches
2 Hispanic head coaches
26 black head coaches
Idk if it’s getting the right people in front of NFL teams when the rules purpose is help minorities but it doesn’t help all minorities apparently
The owners wouldn’t.
NFL isn’t the only place you find who you know matters more than what you know
Incorrect.
You’re almost as ridiculous as DroppedBallFour right now, billj.
It’s ridiculous to say the Romney rule should be amended or outright abolished cause its only qualification is “minority”?
Well I guess simple question. How does being a minority make you good at a job?
No, your whole thing about Madden players being discriminated against is ridiculous.
As for why Asians and Hispanic coaches aren’t prevalent in the NFL, look no further than the fact that those two groups by and large don’t play football in the US and certainly not at the highest levels of college football.
Why do you think the NFL is making such a point to expand the game and eventually put a team in Mexico City, Canada, and Europe? To grow the game at all levels and produce not just players but coaches etc.
There are most definitely Hispanic coaches though. Football has existed in Mexico and other parts of Latin America for many years but those countries are understandably so far behind that it would take decades to grow the game to the point where they produced the type of players and football athletes that could make it this far and the type of coaches who could make it this far.
But they are making strides with the International Player Pathway and other initiatives for both players and coaches.
Yeah. All I’m gonna say is read the thread man lmao.
If you notice Ooooof kindly imposed a weird rule on Madden players saying they shouldn’t be considered candidates because they don’t have the “ability to teach, install, or coach those things to a room of players.”
Which is weird cause Oooooof doesn’t support applying that same standard to Rooney Rule candidates. Apparently they don’t have to be good at or show the “ ability to teach, install, or coach those things to a room of players.”
“As for why Asians and Hispanic coaches aren’t prevalent in the NFL, look no further than the fact that those two groups by and large don’t play football in the US and certainly not at the highest levels of college football.”
The intended purpose of the Rooney Rule was to create opportunities for “minorities” to hold more prominent roles in NFL organizations
If you’re saying 26 black head coaches, 0 Asian, and 2 Hispanic has lived up to the promise the Rooney Rule intended it hasn’t.
Which means 1 of a couple things
Abolish it.
Amend its purpose to seek candidates not just from within NFL ranks but potentially other leagues organizations. Who was the Browns exec that worked in the MLB DePodesta given his experience running moneyball all those years with the athletics and Billy Beane.
The madden bit was just to show how one group (madden players) has arbitrary often unmeasurable standards placed upon them as to why they can’t enter coaching ranks but candidates for the Rooney Rule aren’t held to that same standard of competence. But hey are there knowledgable madden players who could become great coaches? Possibly.
I would just like to ask any of these guys who got one of these interviews one question only. And that is just how much of a chance did you REALLY think you had of getting that job after the interview?
Why do you assume that “white people” have to be failures and that don’t recognize their shortcomings? That’s a pretty racist thing of you to say.
Leave it to the peanut gallery to arrive and suggest that racism and discrimination can only exist on a one way street.
Any practice that gives priority to somebody else SOLELY on the basis of skin color/race/ethnicity is racist and discriminatory. And that’s the only qualifier in the Rooney Rule.
Why are females considered a minority in the rule? Last time I checked, there were more females than males in the world.
The rule is a sham and always has been and always will be. All it does it get minority applicants sham interviews. Nobody is going to tell billionaires who to hire and then when they pull the complete nonsense they did with the Bears this year it just validates my point. I have no idea why the Florida AG is involved but it would seem he has more important thing to do like keeping the Big Orange Blowhole in check and ruining Disney.
There shouldn’t be a rule at all. It is discriminatory and racist. I thought you all were for fighting racism?
It is literally a rule trying to encourage teams to hire based on race. DEI = Didn’t Earn It. The intention is fine but in practice it does not work. Merit should be the only consideration, not which box they check off.
The real world has never worked this way.
What are you even talking about, billj?
And it literally doesn’t do that at all.
The intention isn’t fine. The intention is to get people in the door based solely on their skin color. That’s discrimination and racism.
Explain how the AG of Florida is supposed to keep the President of the United States in check.
Sure. When you explain why the Governor and AG of Florida are literally trying to aggravate the States leading employer( Disney) and trying to do everything in their power to force them out of the State. They could put a muzzle on the Blowhole and force him to keep it on in Florida.
Lol Disney the horrible corporate citizen and ruthless conglomerate?
Yeah real great team to side with there.
You really need to seek psychological help for your TDS.
Trump can’t force Florida to do anything about Disney
Land belongs to the state of Florida
If the land was federal land the president and federal government would have a say
But since it was Florida that granted Disney its self governing rights the state of Florida can dissolve those rights and Trump Biden Obama Bush couldn’t do anything about it
Per NPR
“ No, a U.S. President cannot directly override state-level actions regarding Disney’s special status in Florida. The dispute involves state legislation, which stripped Disney of its self-governing status and created a new board appointed by Governor DeSantis, making it a state legal and legislative issue rather than a federal matter.”
Why are you defending a company that has a stated goal of pushing “alternative adult lifestyles and situations” on CHILDREN.
“Stated goal” lmao. Some of you really live in your own delusional world.
Yes, there is a video of the head of PR of Disney stating that this was their agenda. So what would you call that? I would call you not being aware of that being grossly ignorant, or if you are aware of this fact, that you are the one that is being delusional to deny it.
I suggest you pay more attention, myaccount.
He’s not wrong that it is a stated goal of higher ups at Disney.
They say as much in their stockholder meetings.
You’re an absolute liar. Those are not the direct words and you’re twisting them. Which is expected.
See, here’s the funny thing about that. You don’t have to take DBF’s and my word for it, you only simply have to listen to the words of Karey Burke:
“Disney corporate president Karey Burke says, “as the mother [of] one transgender child and one pansexual child,” she supports having “many, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our stories” and wants a minimum of 50 percent of characters to be LGBTQIA and racial minorities.”
And then there’s this: “and the production coordinator at Disney Television Animation, Allen Martsch, note that his team is trying to include “more trans and gender non-conforming characters” in Disney animations.[46] Also, in the meeting, Layota Raveneau, series director of The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder and Rise Up, Sing Out, said that she was adding queerness wherever she could in the projects she worked on for Disney.”
Then there are the actual works themselves that feature same-sex couples, lesbian, bi, and non-binary characters. I mean….it is all right out there in the open for anyone to find and see that has open eyes.
So what were you going to say about me lying?
I was going to say that you were a liar and I’ll still say that. Including LGBTQ characters does not “push that lifestyle” on kids, it speaks to the reality of the worle. I’ve watched plenty of shows with gay characters and it hasn’t turned me gay yet and I can’t imagine it doing so to a kid.
The funny thing about direct quotes is that you can’t put your own spin on them and you tried to here. So yeah, you lied. Including gay and transgender characters is not pushing “adult alternative lifestyle,” it’s pushing reality. There are gay and transgender people out there and there are plenty of them. I’m sorry that’s frightening to you lol
Well, it is all in black and white, so you can try to claim I am a liar all you want, but the rest of us live in actual reality and can actually read and comprehend things.
It is an AGENDA when you have a plan to include something and push it much more and make it an initiative to push something much, much more, and make it a directive. Do you think “agenda” is a negative connotation word? How about, The Ravens agenda is to solidify their WR situation and boost their pass rush this off season.
Gay/Lesbian/Trans, etc. is all about sexual preferences, which is an adult topic. So again, why is that something KIDS need to know about their cartoon characters? Cartoons are not about reality. Why is it important to show same-sex characters kissing in a KIDS show? Why do kids need to know if a character is gay or a lesbian, or non-binary? It is completely irrelevant to the show.
Nothing is frightening to me. There is no such thing as a “transgender” person, because it is literally impossible for a male to become a female and vice-versa. If you were born a male, you always will be a male/man. If you were born a female, you will always be a female/woman. Show me a supposed “transgender kid” and I will show you at least one crazy parent, without fail. Now, you can think and believe anything you want to, that doesn’t mean that it is real. Most kids at some ages think and believe Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy are real. Are they?
If there are sooooo many of these people out there, why do they keep pointing out how much of a minority they are? Which one is it? Are they a massive minority like they claim, or are there so many of them? Somebody is lying around here, and it isn’t me. The truth is right in front of your face, and you want to completely ignore it. I think I know why. That closet of yours is getting pretty cramped for room, you may need to move out of it.
Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy has consistently emphasized the necessity for inclusive and representative storytelling within the Star Wars franchise, arguing that the universe should reflect “all people”
Sit this one out myaccount
Nope, DroppedBallFour. Including “all people” isn’t pushing a lifestyle, it’s just including all people, exactly like they said. There are gay people. There are transgender people. There are people with different lifestyles that I choose not to participate in and that’s okay. These people are reflected in shows because that’s reality. 100% of the world isn’t straight. Why is it a problem to reflect that in television? It’s not like they’re going to draw Disney cartoons of gay characters fornicating. They’ll just be there. And these characters appearing on TV have yet to turn a single person gay.
It’s sad that you think someone needs to sit out a conversation because they see a situation differently, especially when you have to exaggerate the reality of the situation to make your point. Everything is politicized these days and clearly you’ve fallen prey to that. Sad.
Disney cartoons and movies have shown same-sex couples kissing. Why is that in a children’s show? They know kids will see that and kids will ask questions about it.
While 100% of the people may not all be straight, these alternative lifestyles are being vastly over-represented in all forms of media.
I don’t need politics to tell me what I do and don’t agree with and what I want my children exposed to, or what I don’t want forced down my throat. There is no exaggeration of any points, it is merely the truth of the matter which you seem to want to ignore, run away from, or try to defend for whatever reason.
I gave you the exact quotes from these high ranking people at Disney, and you STILL want to try to deny it. Again, these aren’t our words, they are THEIR words, and you don’t even believe them when they say these things.
If you can’t explain to your kids that some people are different, that’s a shortcoming you have as a parent. It’s a really easy discussion. And wtf are you talking about? I never once denied the secondary quotes, but you are twisting their words to fit your agenda and that’s lying. No executive said “we’re going to push alternative adult lifestyles” on kids. That’s your lie. I’m sorry gay people scare you.
My children already know what reality is, and they understand that some people think some crazy things and have mental issues. The shortcoming of a parent is to let your 4 year old tell you that they think they are something they obviously aren’t, and instead of telling them the truth, you support the lie and fantasy.
You are denying the quotes for sure. These people are saying that they are FORCING over-representation of alternative lifestyles (adult lifestyles mind you) on MINORS. That’s not my agenda, it is THEIR STATED AGENDA. My agenda is merely to point this out and expose it to people like you, and expose people like you who want to deny the truth that is right in front of your face. They all literally said the exact thing you claim they aren’t saying.
Gay people don’t scare me at all. I love everyone and accept that they can live their lives any way they want to without any interference from me. I just wish that these same people actually followed what they preach, love, tolerance, acceptance, and inclusion of what other people believe and follow. Keep it away from my kids, don’t force it down their throats and force them through punishment in schools to accept and affirm this nonsense, and stop exposing them to inappropriate sexual material, stop forcing pre and puberty aged girls to share showers, locker rooms, and bathrooms with boys who think they are girls when these girls overwhelmingly state in the vast majority that this makes them extremely uncomfortable and punishing them for saying so.
Why are you so afraid of men that are men, the truth, reality, and Christians?
You just typed a lot of words to repeat things I’ve already addressed, outside of your nonsensical accusation of me being afraid of men being men. I’m on a football site lol why would I be afraid of men being men? I’ve made no statement against men being men, so you’re reaching to try to match me.
I have far surpassed you.
I repeat the truth because that’s all I need to do. I will continue to repeat it until it sinks into your head. You won’t address these issues because you know you’re wrong.
Take solace in that. It is never too late to correct course.
If any billionaire corporation needs regulations, it’s Disney.
“ The Rooney Rule, named for late Steelers owner and then-chair of the league’s Workplace Diversity Committee, was instituted in 2002. Tony Dungy and Dennis Green, two of the league’s three minority coaches, had just been fired – Dungy after a winning season and Green after his first losing season in a decade.”
I don’t see “Super Bowl champion” Tony Dungy (though he won one in 2007 with the Colts) and I don’t see “Super Bowl champion” Dennis Green in that description.
Chargers fired Marty Schottenheimer after a 14-2 season , had 3 consecutive winning seasons, and 2 playoff births in the last 3 years
Andy Reid spent 14 seasons in Philly, 10 years after Rooney Rule went into effect.
10 winning seasons
9 playoff births
Made at least 1 Super Bowl never won it
Dennis Green got fired after a tirade where he embarrassed the entire organization. Let’s not forget that part.
Dungy retired. He wasn’t fired, and he wasn’t pushed out of the league and not considered for a job.
Brian Billick and John Harbaugh were also both fired, they had won Super Bowls, and Harbaugh has been one of the winningest coaches in the NFL in his career with Baltimore
I dislike racism and hate racists.
But the Rooney Rule has always garbage and is, itself, racist…and the newest version is insane. It literally says that it takes a third round pick to make a black coach equal in value to a white coach.
There’s no great solution.
Require a certain number of interviews of any candidates and make the lists of candidates interviewed public. Let sunlight and the market work.
Ultimately, the teams who hire mediocre white guys suffer for it…AKA The Adam Gase Rule.
Getting old makes you overly cynical but I find it interesting that a white Florida politician waited until an election year to protest discrimination against blacks and other minorities 🙂
You read it wrong.
I agree that DEI as it is currently implemented is a real problem and is discriminatory but the Rooney Rule and its effects on NFL hiring most certainly is not.
The only part that needs to be gone is the system rewarding teams with draft picks for having minority coaches get hired elsewhere. That’s just completely ridiculous and was a dumb and offensive idea to begin with.
The AG is majorly reaching. The Rooney Rule is merely forcing teams to consider minority candidates, not forcing any team to do anything or favoring minority candidates due to their race.
FORCING TEAMS TO INTERVIEW CANDIDATES BASED ON SKIN COLOR, not to consider them. It rewards them for hiring one, and then having them being picked up by another team. That’s racism and discrimination. There should be rewards for any team that loses one of its coaches to another team that gets a promotion.
That last part is the only part of the rule that needs to change.
There’s nothing wrong with forcing teams to interview minority candidates.
So then there should be a rule forcing teams to interview people of all races, because to force them to interview only one specific group of people would be a racist and discriminatory process…which it already is.
The most incompetent, unqualified people to ever live are running this “country” and the Florida AG is worried about DEI hires in the NFL. It was the dumbest of times, it was the most hypocritical of times……..
Somebody definitely didn’t pay attention during the Biden administration.
Yeah, that would be Joe Biden!
Oh contrare, ole Joe paid attention to Joe and the rest of his cronies followed suit while ignoring the rest of the population.
Which if we compare that to the NFL it’s their business model – Sundays are ours, Mondays and Thursdays are ours, America is ours so let’s grab the rest of the world, heck Aus isn’t that far!!
The Rooney rule should apply to players also.
How many minority GMs were hired? One that I know of…Ian Cunningham. And the NFL chose not to compensate the Bears for it.
This is probably the biggest NFL story out of Florida that didn’t involve Antonio Brown or Robert Kraft…lol.
This feels like the government getting involved in private business. No one gets hurt by being forced to interview minority candidates. This isn’t like you are being forced to take a 1200 SAT student because you already have too many Asian 1600 SAT students.
FWIW, I’m a RW-C, but the FL AG needs to stick to prosecuting criminals.
Well since the Rooney Rule affects
Jacksonville Jaguars located in Jacksonville Florida
Miami Dolphins located in Miami Florida
Seems like jurisdiction is established as the NFL isn’t exempt from following state laws
While the league holds specific federal antitrust exemptions, teams and the league must comply with state regulations, labor laws, and tax laws in the states where they
So wasting time and money being forced to interview people you have absolutely no intention of hiring because of a rule doesn’t hurt anyone? Being punished if you don’t doesn’t hurt anyone? Being rewarded for hiring these people and not others doesn’t hurt anyone?
This is EXACTLY like the quota rule.
Weird guy, must be bored.
Or he’s ensuring the NFL is complying with Florida labor laws since the league holds specific federal antitrust exemptions, teams and the league must comply with state regulations, labor laws, and tax laws in the states where they play
Naw, rule been around 20yrs. Dude just got a bug up ass andtrying to find something to do. Plenty of white coaches still coaching in the league that has majority black players. All the team owners are white,boo hoo they have to interview multiple candidates that are not white.
Yeah the tuck rule use to be a rule until it wasn’t after being abolished in 2013
Slavery use to legal until it was abolished after the civil war
Segregation use to be legal until it was abolished by the civil rights act
NBA use to allow teams to draft high school players until they abolished it in favor of the 1 and done rule
MLB use to play extra innings like regular innings until they abolished it in favor of the man on second rule
Idk what a rule being around for 20 years has to do with anything lmao
Even the Rooney Rule itself had to be amended to include women since its inception.
K. Well explain this. How does being a minority make someone more qualified for a position?
Does being black make you a better coach?
Does being a woman make you a better referee?
And how come more Asians Hispanics aren’t benefitting from being coached and front office executives?
Reading through the comments proves the adage ‘opinions are like azz***es, everybody’s got one and thinks theirs smells sweet’!
Cracks me up
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on many cases that most forms of Affirmative Action are discriminatory. Rewarding someone based on their race should not provide an advantage for one person over another. The Rooney Rule is a joke and is illegal and immoral and should be overturned. I’m glad someone out there had the ballz to push this issue forward and let the Courts end it once and for all. As in any business, the owner has the right to hire and fire anyone he so chooses, regardless of race, gender, etc. What’s next, “the Caitlyn Jenner Rule” where owners have to interview at least one trans person? C’mon NFL you’re the only major sports league with this silly rule.
My absolute favorite part of the Rooney Rule is
“ To reward developing minority talent, teams receive compensatory third-round draft picks if a minority executive or coach is hired by another club as a head coach or primary football executive.”
Really reminds of the 3/5 compromise where slaves could only be counted as 3/5 a vote lmao you’d need 5 slaves to count as 3 votes.
“Hey great job training that minority over there NFL team here’s a draft pick for your hard work”
Like the NFL team is the sole reason he got where he was lmao not his hard work or his accomplishments.
Lack intelligence for the job clearly
Will add, this ‘idea’ of ‘points for minorities’ exists within testing for certain government jobs (Post Office) as I experienced such a joke. Two openings, 1 guy a 99, I’m a 98 got bumped by a guy with an 89. Had to laugh at that one!! Yet might’ve been for the best as I’d not want to become another ‘Hellllo Newwwman’.
I’m not a fan of race-based policy by any means… so I hope people don’t assume my position here… but many people are talking past each other here and arguing semantics…
“Discrimination” is a concept that is dependent upon prejudice. Prejudice is the act of pre-judging someone based upon some surface level indicator, like skin colour for example, without actually assessing the person on their merits… You know… learn about someone to determine if they are smart or dumb or law-abiding or a criminal… don’t assume on skin colour or some other simplistic piece of information…
The Rooney rule isn’t necessarily racially discriminatory. It requires that at least one minority person is interviewed, but it does not take an interview opportunity away from a white person. It does not mandate a hiring. It’s definitely a race-based policy, and I don’t like the idea of that… it feels very regressive… but that doesn’t make it discriminatory.
A black candidate is not being assumed as better than any white candidate. They are not being judged superior or inferior based upon their skin colour. At least one minority candidate is simply being given an interview by mandate. That is all.
The comments look EXACTLY how I expected them to look, a bunch of neanderthals bleeting over the fact that the NFL for once somewhat acknowledged it has a race problem LOL