The NFL’s “Rooney Rule” was instituted in 2003 in an attempt to increase the racial diversity of coaches and certain managerial positions. The rule requires that teams interview women and ...

The NFL installed the Rooney Rule in 2003 with the best of intentions ... to include women as part of the "minority candidate" definition. It also required teams to interview two external minority ...

The NFL’s Rooney Rule, which was created by the NFL’s ... include interviews for women as part of the "minority candidate definition." CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM ...

Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times Share The NFL’s Rooney Rule is a worthy idea clumsily executed. Established in 2003 and tweaked in 2021, it requires teams to interview at least two minority candidates ...

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said this week that the Rooney Rule and other DEI efforts "make the NFL better" but two men who helped write the rule say a paucity of Black offensive coordinators ...

To foster diversity and align coaching and management with the player base, the NFL must move beyond the Rooney Rule’s top-down approach and adopt a grassroots diversity strategy. By prioritizing ...

“I think this kind of puts a light on the Rooney Rule, which, to me, the New England Patriots made a mockery of,” Clark said on Inside the NFL. “To interview Pep Hamilton and Byron ...

The Rooney Rule was meant to increase the number of minority interviews – and thus actual opportunity for those coaches – in the NFL. In many ways it has achieved just that. Yet, some teams ...

In 2003, the NFL adopted a rule that each team must interview at least one minority candidate prior to selecting a new head coach. The rule was named for late Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney ...