‘What Racists Do When Caught With Racist Policies’: GOP Congressman Rips NFL, Rooney Rule – By Joe Morgan (Daily Wire) / April 8, 2022
The National Football League has come under fire for its hiring practices over the past two months, following the news that former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores is suing the league for racial discrimination.
In the class-action lawsuit, Flores alleges that the New York Giants and the Denver Broncos only brought him in to interview for their open head coach positions in order to satisfy the Rooney Rule, a policy that requires “every team with a head coaching vacancy” to interview one “diverse” candidate. Flores, who is black, alleges the Giants interviewed him when they had already decided to hire someone else.
The suit shows text messages between Flores and New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, texts in which Belichick “mistakenly disclosed” to Flores that the Giants had decided to hire Brian Daboll, who is white. Belichick reportedly believed he was texting Daboll instead of Flores.
Flores also alleges that in a 2019 interview for the Broncos head coaching position, “then-General Manager, John Elway, President and Chief Executive Officer Joe Ellis and others, showed up an hour late to the interview.”
