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Thread ID: 8540 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2003-07-28
2003-07-28 22:53 | User Profile
Friday, July 25, 2003 Detroit Lions Hire White Coach, Have to Pay $200,000
The NFL has apparently become a bastion of political correctness rivaling the most extreme of America's universities. It has fined the Detroit Lions $200,000 for daring to hire a white man, Steve Mariucci, as head coach.
The league said the Lions should have interviewed non-white candidates for the job, but the team noted that five minority candidates turned down interviews.
"While certain of the difficulties that you encountered in seeking to schedule interviews with minority candidates were beyond your control, you did not take sufficient steps to satisfy the commitment that you had made," huffed Commissioner Paul Tagliabue.
"League owners agreed in principle in December that any team seeking to hire a head coach would interview at least one minority candidate," the Associated Press noted today. Apparently they didn't discuss what to do if no minorities would let themselves be interviewed.
Tagliabue, by the way, is white. He failed to explain why he won't resign so some non-white can have his job.
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2003-07-29 22:08 | User Profile
Jason Sehorn said he was discriminated against when he said he wanted to play Corner. "No white guy plays corner" said a scout.
I think the 31 teams that passed on Sehorn as a corner should be fined.
_Jay