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In 2003, The Rooney Rule was instituted by the NFL in response to a report commissioned by the late Johnny Cochran (famed O.J. attorney) and Cyrus Mehri. The report, published in 2002, lambasted the dearth of black head coaches in the NFL. One of the more ridiculous statements that it made was "...that black coaches averaged 1.1 more wins per season than white coaches and led their teams to the playoffs 67 percent of the time, compared with 39 percent of the time for White coaches". Do they dance better, too? How absurd, to suggest that simply because a coach is black, he has ...

In 2003, The Rooney Rule was instituted by the NFL in response to a report commissioned by the late Johnny Cochran (famed O.J. attorney) and Cyrus Mehri. The report, published in 2002, lambasted the dearth of black head coaches in the NFL. One of the more ridiculous statements that it made was "...that black coaches averaged 1.1 more wins per season than white coaches and led their teams to the playoffs 67 percent of the time, compared with 39 percent of the time for White coaches". Do they dance better, too? How absurd, to suggest that simply because a coach is black, he has ...