It shouldn’t exactly be a surprise that former members of the Pittsburgh Steelers appear to be among the most upset with the current implementation and enforcement of the ‘Rooney Rule’ in the NFL, which stipulates that teams must interview at least one minority candidate for every head coaching vacancy.
After all, the rule is named after and synonymous with Dan Rooney, who was a champion of it from the outset, a well-known believer in diversity. And their head coach, under whom they played, has been the most prominent minority head coach since the rule was initially implemented four years before he was even hired, that being Mike Tomlin, 13 years on the job.