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Advancing the ball : race, reformation, and the quest for equal coaching opportunity in the NFL / N. Jeremi Duru.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Duru, N. Jeremi.
- Series:
- Law and current events masters.
- Law and current events masters
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National Football League.
- African American football coaches--History--20th century.
- African American football coaches.
- Discrimination in employment--United States--History--20th century.
- Discrimination in employment.
- Discrimination in sports--United States--History--20th century.
- Discrimination in sports.
- United States--Race relations--History--20th century.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (223 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Baltimore Love; 2 An Idea's Origin; 3 Superior Performance, Inferior Opportunities; 4 Enter the Godfather; 5 The Rooney Rule; 6 The Coaching Carousel; 7 Millen, Mooch, and the Great Detroit Hiring Debate; 8 Birth of an Alliance; 9 A Season of Dreams; 10 Digging New Wells; 11 The Road to Super Bowl XLI; Epilogue; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-979280-1
- 1-282-91773-0
- 9786612917738
- 0-19-979226-7
- OCLC:
- 694088051
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