That didn’t take long.
Only one day after former Dolphins coach Brian Flores filed a landmark racial discrimination lawsuit against the NFL and three team, U.S. Representative Bobby L. Rush (D-Ill.) called for a hearing on the issue of systemic racism in the NFL.
“While 70 percent of National Football League [NFL] players are Black, it is unacceptable and reprehensible that, after the recent firing of Houston Texans Head Coach David Culley and Miami Dolphins Head Coach Brian Flores, we are left with only one Black head coach in the NFL out of the 32 head coaching positions,” Rush wrote in a letter to U.S. Representative Jan Schakowski (D-Ill.), Chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce, a committee that has jurisdiction over professional sports.