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Reckoning With The NFL's Rooney Rule

Code Switch

NPR

Society & Culture

4.614.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The large majority of NFL players are people of color. The coaches on the sidelines? Not so much. In this episode, we're looking at the NFL's famous diversity plan and what it might tells us about why so many corporate initiatives like it don't work.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Just the heads up y'all, this episode contains some salty language, so you know, it's gonna be some cousin

0:06.2

What's good y'all? You're listening to Coat Switch. I'm Gene Debbie and I'm Lori Lisa Ragan

0:10.4

It's Super Bowl season Gene. We are recording this before the game, so

0:16.4

Congratulations and good luck to your Philadelphia Eagles. Thank you, sis. I appreciate you so much

0:21.0

And this will come as no surprise to you Gene, but it's pretty lit in Philly right now. Oh, I believe it

0:27.1

I mean an Eagles Super Bowl on the back of a Philly's world series. Lori stay safe out there like I know people in Philly don't know how to act like

0:35.5

No light pull a safe gene

0:38.7

I was there in Philly in 2018 when the Eagles finally won the Super Bowl. It was

0:45.6

Chaos like it was one of the best nights of my life

0:48.3

We were walking out of Broad Street me and my wife and my friends

0:50.4

And it felt like the whole city was having this cathartic moment like finally

0:54.9

There was a couple having sex on top of a car

0:58.9

And my wife, you know, is a football fanatic too like she's a Niners fan. I'm so sorry

1:03.2

I'm sorry to bring up and football was like a really big part of our early dating life

1:09.0

Yeah, but you know like it's football. It's very weird like

1:12.8

When the Eagles won five years ago, I felt a kind of relief like now we got the chip right like I can release myself from the agony

1:19.2

And now I don't have to keep holding my nose and get tormented myself to watch this messed up sport and

1:26.8

Support in this janky league like and even still this year, you know as both of our teens

1:33.0

We're doing really good like my lady nah

1:36.9

Both started slowly peaking over the fence to see what was good

1:41.4

And we got stuck back in I think a lot of football fans have a complicated relationship with the sport

1:47.0

Especially like after seeing such brutal injuries play out on the field every year

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