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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. ....
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. ....
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 ....
Question of how much the players are willing to put up with. how many insults they re willing to put up with, how many absences of opportunities they re willing to put up with, are they willing to put up with a league where they are 70% of the talent and the overwhelming majority, by the way, far bigger than 70% of the talent that people actually tune in to watch, namely the skill position players and a league where there are only three black coaches, which is a shameful number out of 32 teams. three. and even fewer top executives and even fewer franchise owners. see, this is what we mean when we say that there are systemic problems in the national football league and this issue with race-norming, the fact that the nfl allowed that in the settlement in the first place, and frankly that the lawyers for the retired players even casually allowed it in the first place in the agreement, it speaks to how accepted it is in nfl circles, so they celebrate black talent, they celebrate ....