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Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta 20240604 22:43:00

compensation for retired players with the supposedly scientific belief that black players were going to be not as smart as the white players. it was called race norming and they just recently ended that. it doesn't surprise me, jim, that this lawsuit has come to pass. you have to have individuals like this to take on a league as powerful as the nfl. i do believe, and i just spoke with commissioner goodell at an lgbt event posted by glaad, i do believe the league is trying to make changes but like many changes with something this big, they're just slow coming. >> who do you have tomorrow? what's your prediction? >> you know, my heart is going with kansas city, my head says philly. i think they both have something to prove. >> yeah, yeah, i think patrick mahomes is tired of you guys making these comments about how he has been passed up, and got underneath the skin. i would not be surprised if he balls out tomorrow. though on paper, it will say philadelphia is the better team. >> and i feel like patrick mahomes is teeing himself up to

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Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta 20240604 22:42:00

conversation of black quarterbacks, there's still a lot of work to be done. >> and this is such an important subject i want to ask you about. yesterday we learned that ten former nfl players are suing the league's disability program, the lawsuit alleges that the nfl and roger good dell used biassed doctors and contractual loopholes to deny injured players disability claims. i mean, it comes on the tail of so many just devastating injuries that we've seen over the past season that really, i think, bring this issue to the fore, does it not? i mean, these players, they need health care, they need important medical care after they leave the league? >> absolutely. and, you know, one of the things that has come out of, you know, what the nfl has been doing since the murder of george floyd is that the league was using race norming as a method to indicate, you know, how much compensation should be given to retired players. they since have ceased doing that, but for years, you know, they entered into this conversation in terms of

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Transcripts for KPIX CBS Weekend News 20240604 00:40:00

used so-called race norming based on the assumption that black players had lower cognitive scores. the league has since eliminated that ray bias and rescored more than 640 players' tests, nearly half of the players qualify for payout. students are returning next week, but school districts nationwide are struggling to get enough bus drivers behind the wheel. in los angeles with more, tanya. >> reporter: when classes start monday in los angeles, officials say there will be a driver for every bus route. but nationwide many parents are worried how their students will make it fely to school. wheels on the school bus are having a hard time going around in school districts across the country as many struggle to find bus drivers, putting more

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Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto 20220202 14:18:00

have never had a majority black owner. it is about the lack of representation in the c suite level among front office personnel, with black coaches. it is about the fact that just a few months ago, the nfl stopped race norming with the head trauma issues that are in the league. like, this league has a problem. it is racist. and there is just no other way to say it. and they can deny it all that they want to, but we see it happening and unfolding and have seen it happen for years now. >> is the bar set, in your opinion to a different standard for the few black coaches that there are out there? because i ask, you look at flores' record, and he won eight of the last nine games for the team, right? and yet a lot of people puzzled why he was let go. the texans head coach, he was fired this year, he had only been working there for one year with the team. really not given much of an opportunity to turn that team around. do you think there is a

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Transcripts for MSNBC The Cross Connection With Tiffany Cross 20220212 15:42:00

have hired and promoted some former players, quite a few women and quite a few black people. so i think the nfl is the not where it needs to be and i think the teams are far, far behind. >> the nfl has been problematic for a long time. this laws has a lot of people saying i'm not watching the super bowl. i'm one of those people, but the thing is last year the nfl was garbage. the year before that they were garbage on these issues, because their ratings are off the chart. so should people be tuning in? >> it's a tough question. it's a moral compromise that many of us have to make. if you draw a line at the nfl, that's fine. if you d a line with the nfl's issue with race, that i see fair. you're free to do that. you can do it with the way they handle head injuries, hiding concussions from players, race

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Judge approves NFL concussion deal amended over 'race-norming'

A new plan finalized on Friday will allow retired Black NFL players who were denied money for dementia claims to resubmit those claims and potentially tap into a concussion settlement distributed by the league.

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BURGESS OWENS: The NFL's 'Race-Norming' Scandal Deserves More Scrutiny Than Jon Gruden's Emails

While "cancel culture" has jumped on Jon Gruden's personal emails from a decade ago, the NFL's "race-norming" policy has received almost no scrutiny.

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Transcripts for MSNBC Yasmin Vossoughian Reports 20211023 20:33:00

more difficult time for the league. just a couple weeks ago, nfl coach jon gruden was ousted from his job with the las vegas raiders after personal emails containing homophobic, racist and sexist language were leaked. now fans are left to wonder, can the problems with the nfl really be fixed? joining me now, dave, sports editor at the nation and author of "the kaepernick effect." welcome back, dave. i'm so happy you've joined us again. last week, we spoke again, we got cut short. i'm so happy to be having this conversation. this is mind-blowing, this race-norming, this idea of race-norming. and it speaks more to the fact that racism is completely engrained in nfl culture, only this stuff is beginning to leak out now. i can't even imagine how they get over this, how they get past this, seeing how much a part of it it is. >> well, it's going to be a

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