Roger Goodell to resign. NFL to rename Rooney Rule, Tony Dungy Rule
MIAMI -- Roger Goodell took the podium inside the Downtown Hilton Wednesday and touted a number of positive marks (a record 187.3 million fans, for example) the league reached in 2019. Then he got down to a more serious matter: front-office diversity, or lack thereof, currently in his NFL. The league just recently completed its latest hiring cycle and didn't produce a single African-American head coach, even with qualified minority candidates like Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy and 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh involved in the process. Minorities holding important front office roles are even less prevalent. The Browns hired Andrew Berry this week as their new general manager which brings the league to a total of two minority GMs in the NFL. The league's mandate that each organization must interview at least one minority candidate for such openings -- known as the Rooney Rule -- appears to have grown ineffective ...