{"id":439462,"date":"2023-07-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.7sport.net\/en\/news-single\/nflpa-chief-offers-rooney-rule-alternative\/"},"modified":"2023-07-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T04:00:00","slug":"nflpa-chief-offers-rooney-rule-alternative","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/nflpa-chief-offers-rooney-rule-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"NFLPA chief offers Rooney Rule alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the National Football League\u2019s Rooney Rule was most likely created with goodwill, many people don\u2019t like it and its effectiveness in providing opportunities for minority people to work in the front office or as managers.<\/p>\n<p>DeMaurice Smith, head of NFLPA for 14 years run, will end at the end of July; he thinks that the NFL must end the Rooney Rule and create new guidelines to provide more diverse hiring decisions in the league. Smith shared many of these guidelines that he created with Yale law student Carl Lasker.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NFL Players&#8217; Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith Co-Authored An Article w\/ Yale Law School Student Carl Lasker Purposing Why The NFL Should Replace The Current Rooney Rule <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TitleTribe?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#TitleTribe<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NFL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NFL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9yCjmNnJ3a\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/9yCjmNnJ3a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Toilets To Titles Podcast Network (@ToiletsToTitles) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ToiletsToTitles\/status\/1676940324395171840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The league\u2019s system is cracked,&#8221; the team shared. &#8220;To fix it, NFL must admit that the Rooney Rule is a failure and replace their unchecked discretion with valid requirements to end discrimination, provide fairness, enhance diversity, and build a system where everyone can succeed no matter of his color or from what family he is coming from.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the National Football League\u2019s Rooney Rule was most likely created with goodwill, many people don\u2019t like it and its effectiveness in providing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":439463,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17324],"news_category":[16703,20292],"gn_keywords":[20339,17873,20340],"acf":{"news_source":null,"link_picture":null,"announce":"DeMaurice Smith suggests a different resolution.","video":null},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439462"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439462"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}