Roger Goodell won’t be laughing after he reads DeMaurice Smith’s latest project.
Smith, the outgoing executive director of the NFL Players Association, has co-authored an article that will appear in the next edition of the Yale Law and Policy Review. The article calls for the NFL to declare the Rooney Rule a failed experiment and to scrap it, with other specific measures implemented to improve hiring practices for coaches and other high-level employees.
The Executive Summary of the article
makes some blunt but accurate points regarding the NFL’s unique ability to avoid any real consequences for decades of Read more…