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Author Duru, N. Jeremi.

Title Advancing the ball : race, reformation, and the quest for equal coaching opportunity in the NFL / N. Jeremi Duru
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 204 pages)
Series Law and current events masters
Law and current events masters.
Contents Baltimore love -- An idea's origin -- Superior performance, inferior opportunities -- Enter the godfather -- The Rooney Rule -- The coaching carousel -- Millen, Mooch, and the great Detroit hiring debate -- Birth of an alliance -- A season of dreams -- Digging new wells -- Road to Super Bowl XLI
Summary Two days before Super Bowl XLI in 2007, the game's two opposing head coaches posed with the trophy one of them would hoist after the contest. It was a fairly unremarkable event, except that both coaches were African American--a fact that was as much of a story as the game itself. As Jeremi Duru reveals in Advancing the Ball, this unique milestone resulted from the work of a determined group of people whose struggles to expand head coaching opportunities for African Americans ultimately changed the National Football League. Since the league's desegregation in 1946, opportunities had grown plent
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject National Football League.
SUBJECT National Football League fast
Subject Discrimination in sports -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Discrimination in employment -- United States -- History -- 20th century
African American football coaches -- History -- 20th century
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Football.
African American football coaches
Discrimination in employment
Discrimination in sports
Race relations
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Subject United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
dissertations.
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199792269
0199792267
9781282917736
1282917730