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Brian Flores’s Claims Against the NFL Are Growing More Powerful and Less Avoidable

In February, the NFL swiftly defended itself against Brian Flores’s lawsuit alleging racist and discriminatory hiring practices by calling the coach’s claims “without merit.”

For a corporation armed with enough lawyers to out-business-card Patrick Bateman, it was an incredibly poor choice of words, because beneath Flores’s headline-grabbing claims about cash payments offered for losing (which the Dolphins have denied) and clumsy Bill Belichick text messages, Flores was simply speaking a truth head coaches of color face each and every day—a truth that represents the rotting core of the league’s diversity efforts.