Inside one of the NFL’s most stunning failures

NFL 最令人震惊的失败之一

Apple News In Conversation

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2023-01-14

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The majority of NFL players are Black. So how is it possible that the league has only had 20 Black head coaches since 1990 — compared to 154 white coaches? The glaring disparity is at the center of an ongoing lawsuit against the NFL brought by former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores. Washington Post reporter Michael Lee talks to Apple News In Conversation host Shumita Basu about this persistent problem — and how the NFL needs to change, fast. 

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  • I'm Shemitah Basu.

  • Today how the NFL has failed black coaches and what the league needs to do to change Last weekend marked the end of the NFL regular season, and it's around this time of year that we usually see a lot of coach firings.

  • In fact, it was just about a year ago when Brian Flores was fired from his job as head coach of the Miami Dolphins.

  • This was after back to back winning seasons, something that hadn't happened in Miami in nearly two decades.

  • But getting fired is par for the course in head coaching roles across sports.

  • So Flores went out and started interviewing for new head coaching jobs, and he.

  • Was getting ready to have an interview with the New York Giants.

  • That's Washington Post sports reporter Michael Lee.

  • And just as he was preparing to leave for that interview, he got a text message from his former boss, Bill Belichick, the famed New England Patriots coach.

  • Basically telling him that, you know Brian, you got it.

  • And he was like, which Brian?

  • Yep, Belichick was messaging the wrong Brian.