The National Football League’s Rooney Rule has been re-made into the “loony rule.” On Monday, the league mandated diversity Kool-Aid overdoses for each of its 32 teams. The mandate requires all of its teams to hire a minority offensive assistant coach for the 2022 season, as part of an effort to engineer greater diversity.
According to league owners, the offensive coach can be either a woman or from an ethnic or racial minority. Drawing their pay from an NFL fund, the diversity hires “must work closely with the head coach and the offensive staff, with the goal of increasing minority participation in the pool of offensive coaches that eventually produces the most sought-after candidates for head-coaching positions,” ESPN’s Kevin Seifert reported.
The NFL and its critics concluded that its Rooney Rule just isn’t working. It’s a rule that requires teams with an opening for head coach or general manager to interview minorities. Roger Goodell considered scrapping Rooney as there are currently only five minority-head coaches in the league. However, the league amended the rule with plenty of wokeness.
The revised Rooney Rule should be labeled the anti-MLK rule. This goes against what Dr. Martin Luther King advocated for a society that is colorblind, in which individuals are evaluated on the contents of their character rather than skin colour. Applying that to the NFL, it would hire coaches based on merit instead of mandating diversity just for diversity’s sake.
Pittsburgh Steelers owner Art Rooney II, the chairman of the NFL’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee said:
This recognition is a result of the fact that the current stepping stones for head coaches are often the coordinator positions. In recent years there has been a tendency for coaches to come from the offensive end of the ball. We don’t have enough offensive coordinators. [job].
ESPN reports that the NFL officially added women to all levels of the Rooney Rule. “It will now read that women and/or people of color can satisfy the requirement to interview two external minorities for top positions, including head coach. Women are not required to be interviewed, but they are now included in the fulfillment process.”
Rooney pointed out that there isn’t a lot of women who are head coaches in the pool. What do you think?
There are a few women assistant coaches in the NFL, including Katie Sowers (in above photo), who was the first female and lesbian coach making it to the Super Bowl with the 49ers. However, high schools and colleges do not field women’s football teams and there is no major women’s football league. There is no pipeline of women’s football coaches either. To promote idealistic diversity and feminism, the NFL seeks to transform the NFL into a thriving league.
The bizarre changes to the loony Rooney Rule are just the latest in the NFL’s descent into nonsensical, woke madness. A few months ago, the male sports league released a video stating that football is gay, queer, lesbian and transgender.
Now that the league has exercised the power of a mandate, are stronger mandates ahead if a woman doesn’t eventually gain a head coaching job? One who is selected merely for her gender, from a non-existent women’s football pipeline, over a deserving male coaching candidate?
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