ESPN:
A study of 2016 NFL coaching staffs shows that white coaches overwhelmingly fill the offensive positions associated with advancement to the head-coaching ranks, compromising the Rooney Rule’s efforts to reverse a recent trend.
Eighty of NFL’s current 85 offensive coordinators, quarterbacks coaches and offensive-quality-control coaches are white, including all 37 with the word “quarterback” in their job descriptions. Minorities comprise one-third of NFL coaches overall, but they dominate positions less associated with advancement. This revelation comes after NFL teams hired 21 first-time white head coaches and one first-time minority head coach (Todd Bowles by the Jets) since 2012, a period of five hiring cycles.
Gee, why would whites be over-represented in a profession about constructing something? Steve Sailer wrote last week:
blacks do best in sports roles that put a premium on disruption and destruction. In football, for example, players on defense are actually more on the offensive, extemporizing search-and-destroy missions against the nominal offense, which attempts to defend its preconceived plans.
Whites in the NFL are concentrated at the positions that specialize in executing preplanned routines, such as placekicker, punter, quarterback, and offensive lineman, especially center.
Not surprisingly, while professional football overall is 68 percent black, defensive platoons are even blacker than that. The position of cornerback, the pass defenders who must react with instant violence to the planned routes run by receivers, is extraordinarily racially segregated. No white man has played regularly at any of the 64 cornerback positions in the NFL since Jason Sehorn retired more than a dozen years ago.
As you might expect, NFL players tend to get arrested now and then. The San Diego Union-Tribune keeps an eye-opening database of NFL arrests.
And who knows how many football heroes skate out of trouble with the police?
