The lawsuit that Pittsburgh Steelers senior defensive assistant Brian Flores filed against the National Football League, the Miami Dolphins, the New York Giants, the Denver Broncos, and the Houston Texans, is not really about himself and his own experiences. To hear him tell it, the reason that he filed the lawsuit, charging racial discrimination, is to invoke change to empower others in the future.
“If there’s actual change that comes from us filing this lawsuit, and young black and brown boys look up and see that there’s eight, 10 black NFL head coaches, and they’re not limited to just being players, then it’s worth it”, he said on the I Am Athlete podcast this past week with Brandon Marshall, Chad Johnson, and Miami Herald writer Omar Kelly discussing the lawsuit among other topics.