Advancing the ball: race, reformation, and the quest for equal coaching opportunity in the NFL
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Main Author: Duru, N. Jeremi (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2011
Series:Law and current events masters
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Baltimore love -- An idea's origin -- Superior performance, inferior opportunities -- Enter the godfather -- The Rooney Rule -- The coaching carousel -- Millen, Mooch, and the great Detroit hiring debate -- Birth of an alliance -- A season of dreams -- Digging new wells -- Road to Super Bowl XLI.
Two days before Super Bowl XLI in 2007, the game's two opposing head coaches posed with the trophy one of them would hoist after the contest. It was a fairly unremarkable event, except that both coaches were African American--a fact that was as much of a story as the game itself. As Jeremi Duru reveals in Advancing the Ball, this unique milestone resulted from the work of a determined group of people whose struggles to expand head coaching opportunities for African Americans ultimately changed the National Football League. Since the league's desegregation in 1946, opportunities had grown plent
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 204 pages)
ISBN:0199736006
0199792267
9780199736003
9780199792269

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