David Culley got a raw deal. Culley’s firing by the Houston Texans was kind of like a coach losing a game on a pass interference penalty where the replay clearly indicates no such violation, and yet the coach can’t challenge it, per league rules,
David Culley’s firing hurts the image of the NFL on so many levels. With Culley’s ouster, there is only one black head coach standing —— Mike Tomlin of the Pittsburgh Steelers. The bitter irony is that in 2003 when Dan Rooney, then the owner of the Steelers, initiated the now infamous “Rooney Rule”, the NFL had only three black head coaches —- now 19 years later, there is only one —- and quite fittingly the one sole survivor is Tomlin, the Steelers’ head coach for 15 years —- a sure fire first ballot Hall of Famer whose career record is 154-82-2 plus 8-8 in the playoffs with a Super Bowl win in 2008, Remarkably, Mike Tomlin is one of the rare long-time head coaches who teams have never had a sub .