IS THE KINGDOM OF THE NFL DRIVEN BY RACISM?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.3 • 8 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Football coach Brian Flores is no longer keeping quiet about the NFL’s fraudulent attempts at diversity. Boston Globe Sports Reporter Gary Washburn joins Thom for a look at the situation. How can the NFL be reformed?
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| 0:27.6 | I'm a line with us as Gary Washburn, he's the NBA Celtics reporter for the Boston Globe and |
| 0:52.4 | covers other sports issues, Boston Globe.com. |
| 0:55.1 | G. Washburn Globe is his Twitter handle. |
| 0:58.1 | Gary, welcome to the program. |
| 0:59.6 | I wanted to talk with you about this whole thing that Brian Flores has blown open. |
| 1:04.0 | It looks like there's a scandal here occurring at multiple levels. |
| 1:07.6 | At number one, we got to check the box scandal. |
| 1:10.8 | And number two, let's throw some games and let's make sure that when we throw games to get better draft picks, |
| 1:16.8 | that it's always black coaches who are throwing the games. |
| 1:19.5 | Am I understanding at least the tip of this iceberg? |
| 1:22.9 | Well, I do believe that there is been an inherent kind of discrimination against African-American coaches |
| 1:31.1 | in the NFL, obviously for decades. |
| 1:34.3 | The fact that there's only one coach African-American in the 32-tea league, |
| 1:39.5 | where the league is 70 percent black, |
| 1:41.3 | Flores has an issue and many people have an issue with that. |
| 1:45.1 | Are qualified candidates who can run their teams just as good as white males can? |
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