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Brian Flores files class-action lawsuit against NFL and New York Giants
Issues within the NFL c-suites are about to get HOT!
Though the NFL continues to be technically “in season”, each group who isn’t the Los Angeles Rams or the Cincinnati Bengals are executed and thus, coaches are being fired and coaches are being fired. Sadly, one factor that we might just about rely on was that not one of the groups with new coach vacancies have been pressed to rent a Black man to run their groups. As of this writing, the Chicago Bears, Denver Broncos, New York Giants, and Las Vegas Raiders have all employed new coaches. A number of different groups are nonetheless on the lookout for a coach and with this newest information, all these groups shall be underneath a microscope.
In line with TMZ, former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores is firing a class-action lawsuit towards the New York Giants for racist hiring practices. Flores says he has a textual content from New England Patriots head coach Invoice Belichick that serves as a smoking gun to show his case. Flores is a former assistant underneath Belichick and says that he received a textual content from the Patriots coach congratulating him on touchdown the Giants job. Downside is, Flores hadn’t but executed his interview with the Giants. When he requested if Belichick had been given some inside information, Belichick reneged saying he had despatched the textual content to the fallacious Brian. Days later, the Giants employed Brian Daboll. Flores argues that Belichick’s textual content proves that the Giants have been solely interviewing him was to fulfill the league’s “Rooney Rule” that requires groups to interview Black candidates. This lawsuit is being filed on behalf of different Black coaches and NFL entrance workplace staff.
As of 2020, the NFL was comprised of virtually 60% Black gamers and but you wouldn’t want all of the fingers on Jason Pierre Paul’s proper hand to rely the variety of Black coaches.
As if the lawsuit wasn’t damning sufficient, Flores additionally threw his former group underneath the bus as effectively. The lawsuits additionally accuses the Miami Dolphins, particularly proprietor Stephen Ross, of providing him $100,000 every sport that he purposely misplaced in order that the group would have a greater likelihood at getting a high draft decide.
“That is reflective of an all too acquainted “indignant black man” stigma that’s usually casted upon Black males who’re robust of their morals and convictions whereas white males are coined as passionate for these exact same attributes,” the lawsuit reads.
That is going to be UGLY. We hope Brian Flores has all of the receipts he must win his lawsuit. It gained’t be straightforward. The NFL performs a unclean sport.
