President Joe Biden called out the National Football League (NFL) for having fewer Black head coaches during an NBC News Super Bowl interview that aired before the game on Sunday. Biden also pointed out NFL commissioner Roger Goodell's comments for not keeping promises about employing more minorities to run NFL teams.
Biden commented that there aren't enough African American coaches to manage the NFL teams and that the NFL should have diverse supervisors in the league. He also stressed that the NFL’s bleak number of black head coaches shows a lack of “generic decency”.
“They haven’t lived up to what they committed to,” Biden told NBC News’ Lester Holt.
71% of NFL players were non-white while almost all of its head coaches were white in the previous year. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell admitted in the past that the NFL fell “short” in its goals to hire more head coaches of color. He further added the NFL’s efforts were not up to the mark.
President Joe Biden’s statements came after former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores filed a class-action lawsuit against the NFL, and two other teams — the Denver Broncos and New York Giants on February 1, claiming racial discrimination in the league's hiring process.
