Where do I see myself in five years? (13%)

February 2022

“Looking into the lawsuit against the NFL by former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores for racial discrimination. Now, sure, almost 70% of NFL players are Black, and there’s only one Black head coach in the entire league, but the NFL can’t be racist! They spray-painted a tiny ‘end racism’ next to the Kansas City Chiefs logo!” —Stephen Colbert

“Flores was fired by Miami on 10 January, despite leading the team to its first back-to-back winning seasons since 2003. Despite his overall record, winning seven of his last eight games this season, Flores was fired, apparently because he did not get along and go along with the owner. But eight other teams also lost their coaches, and Flores got several interviews for open positions, including with the New York Giants. Such coaching searches are bound by the NFL’s ‘Rooney Rule’, which requires NFL teams to interview a diverse range of candidates for head coaching jobs and other leadership positions. It’s a great idea, gives everybody an opportunity, unless you don’t give an opportunity to anybody, which is what happened in this case. Flores learned via mistaken text from Bill Belichick, the New England Patriots coach, that the head coaching job had gone to someone else – three days before his interview with the team. So he’s saying they wasted his time just to check a pretend box about how they pretend care about diversity, though I imagine it did take the pressure off the job interview – ‘Where do I see myself in five years? Uh, I don’t know, suing you?’” —Stephen Colbert

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