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Reckoning With The NFL's Rooney Rule

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Jerry Jones and the Rooney Rule

Jerry Jones was looking to fill his head coaching spot. Denny Green had been a winning and respected head coach in Minnesota. Jerry Jones called him up, you know what I mean? Talked him on the phone for 45 minutes or whatever. On the flip side, he spent five hours on a tarmac, on a private jet, chopping it up with Bill Parcels,. The Texans hired another black coach. It should be said, this is the same Jerry Jones who we all just found out last fall was one of the white students captured in the crowd of a 1957 photo, trying to integrate a white school in Little Rock.

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