While watching the state of Florida add another prestigious athletic victory, as Tampa Bay was crushed Kansas City just one week ago today, I began to reflect on all the news stories about the NFL’s failed hiring practices leading up to the Super Bowl.
For the third straight year, the head coaching carousel in the NFL mostly left black coaches frozen out. Over the past four hiring cycles, only four black coaches have been hired for the 27 vacancies. As I write this today, there are just three black head coaches in the NFL: Brian Flores in Miami, Mike Tomlin in Pittsburgh and the newly hired David Culley in Houston.