Its teams are so bad at hiring non-whites to their top jobs that they considered literally bribing themselves to do it
The National Football League altered its hiring policies last month in a bid to increase the number of non-white coaches and executives in its ranks.
What happened in the NFL last month — before the swell of public support for anti-racism initiatives, before commissioner Roger Goodell’s surprising apology for the way the league has handled player protests against police brutality — is instructive, because it shows that as much as institutions might acknowledge their biases and a desire to overcome them, actually doing so will not come easily.
The bizarre thing about all this is that teams in a hyper-competitive league would only stand to improve by expanding their hiring pool, and yet they still don’t do it. One of the underpinnings of the statistical revolutions across all sports in recent years has been the recognition that one key to success is to find something valuable that other teams are undervaluing and exploit it.
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