The NFL continues to be mired in scandal.
The league is constantly putting out fires in an attempt to save viewership numbers.
Now sports reporters are ripping the NFL for one head-scratching thing.
The NFL recently experienced another Black Monday, the first Monday after the regular season ends when several head coaches get fired.
And like clockwork, liberal sports reporters were complaining about the lack of black head coaches in the league.
Skip Bayless said on Fox News:
“Yesterday afternoon, when I saw that David Culley, my Vanderbilt man, former Vanderbilt quarterback, from my school, got fired after one set-up-to-fail year, and it dawned upon me that only Mike Tomlin is the last man standing — the last black head coach in the National Football League on the eve of the playoffs. It rocked me because the gravity of it hit me as we near yet another Martin Luther King Day on Monday. This is impossibly wrong. It’s almost surreally bad. It’s a bad look. It’s a bad feel. It’s a bad taste.”
Culley, a life-long assistant in his 60s, was fired by the Houston Texans after taking a job that was considered radioactive at the time.
Star quarterback Deshaun Watson did not amid allegations of sexual assault, and free agents were reluctant to come to the organization.
However, the Texans are rumored to be pursuing former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores, who is black.
There are also other black assistant coaches interviewing for head-coaching jobs, including San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Demeco Ryans and Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy.
Sports reporters like Bayless act as if black head coaches have never existed in the NFL, which is absurd.
NFL coaching positions are scarce.
They don’t always open up, and when they do, there are countless factors that go into who gets hired.
But people on the Left want to reduce everything down to bean-counting along racial lines.
Bayless added:
“[W]e both love the NBA, as we love the NFL. And as we speak, there are 14 black head coaches in the NBA out of 30 franchises. There are 14 out of 30. That’s almost 50%…I think you would say that is pretty great; that is how it should be, right? Thank you. There is one of 32 in the National Football League. One of 32? [A]t the coaching position, just the head coaching position, it is shameful, it is disgusting, it is embarrassing, and it’s inexplicably wrong.”
In order to boost the number of minority coaches and executives, last year the NFL began awarding draft picks to teams if one of their coaches or front office people get promoted elsewhere.
Originally, the NFL flirted with punishing teams that did not have enough minority representation.
Several anonymous black coaches and executives were not big fans of either initiative.
Regarding the first proposal, former Los Angeles Chargers head coach Anthony Lynn said:
“I think sometimes you can do the wrong thing while trying to do the right thing…I think this is out of desperation, this is something that we’re throwing out there, but it is what it is…You can’t make people hire someone they don’t want to hire for whatever reason.”
The NFL is as “progressive” as it’s ever been.
More minority candidates will get opportunities as time goes on, but liberals are always looking to socially engineering organizations.
