Brian Flores files lawsuit against NFL

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

Sure things will change. We just got on-paper equal rights maybe 50 years ago, it's going to take time for black billionaires to start showing up in enough numbers to buy a lot of sports franchises.

Folks seem to not know today that the current NFL is actually a merger of what had been several competitive leagues.

The All America Football Conference (AAFC) was small, lasted only a few years but included San Francisco 49ers, the Cleveland Browns and the Baltimore Colts.

The AAFC teams merged into the NFL in 1950.

The American Football League (AFL) only lasted ten years and merged with the NFL in 1970. In the AFL were: New York Titans (now the Jets), Boston Patriots (now New England) , Buffalo Bills, Houston Oilers, Los Angeles Chargers, Denver Broncos, Oakland Raiders, and Dallas Texans.

Entrepreneurs have built, grown and merged new leagues/new teams throughout the history of sports.

Even the USFL is returning this year.

So the notion that a sport with a 70 percent Black male labor force somehow cannot launch a league with more racially diverse ownership is based on fear of Black ownership and control alone, not the historical reality.

Many are more concerned with being well-compensated employees, without any power to hire, fire or acquire.

 

[MikelArteta]

marvin lewis coming up next

 

[OnFleekTing]

You not gonna force a bunch of rich old white billionaires to do anything
If its proven that stephen ross and others were incentivizing losing then yeah they may lose their teams over that but the whole racial discrimination and rooney rule being a contrivance isn't going to move them much if at all

 

[keond]

stephen a smith says shes a new espn hire

For real?

 

[MikelArteta]

For real?

yup
he said welcome to the team, and she'll be on alot more

just googled and yup
ESPN Hires Angels Rye as Special Correspondent – The Hollywood Reporter

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

You not gonna force a bunch of rich old white billionaires to do anything
If its proven that stephen ross and others were incentivizing losing then yeah they may lose their teams over that but the whole racial discrimination and rooney rule being a contrivance isn't going to move them much if at all

Incentivizing losing for money is a crime breh… If the gov decide they want to investigate that them billionaires going to sit up and act right…

This lawsuit by Flores will have 2 things come from it, civil damages to Flores and criminal liability to Ross and any other other that engaged in losing for profit

 

[beenz]

this dude will NEVER work in the NFL again. I hope the bag he gets is significant tho.

 

[winb83]

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Unfortunately he will get black balled.

Worse than that this won't do much of anything. Unless you can make NFL owners want to hire black head coachs legislation is meaningless. He'll get some pay and nothing will change. The fans, players, and coaches will have to take action directly against the teams and that's unlikely.

Bottom line if you own a business nobody else is gonna tell you who and who not to employ. You can always fall back on I made what I feel was the best choice and it can't be proven otherwise.

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

The only sport ever to feature Black ownership and control was Negro League baseball.

The push to bring Jackie Robinson in Major League Baseball was the result of Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers observing just how successful the Negro Leagues were at the time.

However, rather than merging the Negro League franchises into the MLB, the MLB cherry picked the best Negro players and destroyed the Negro League baseball industry.

The stance should have been no franchise merger, no players -- or, certain MLB teams should have merged into the Negro Leagues.

Now baseball over the years, has gone from being the Number One sport for Black folk, to being now almost in last place, slightly above hockey.

It is always about ownership and control.

 

[ABlackMan]

That wasn't no mistake by Belli... Belli knew what he was doing without saying anything to Flores

Fact that Serena bought in speaks to me about portfolio. This off topic but man that shyt ain’t for just money. It’s for approval on their ship ya feel me

 

[keond]

That wasn't no mistake by Belli... Belli knew what he was doing without saying anything to Flores

Yea i don’t like to give too much credit to cacs and invite them to cookouts, but everyone that knows Belichick says he’s meticulous and borderline OCD, he’s not gonna move that sloppy. Flores was on his staff and he was giving him a heads up. I don’t think he knew he would be at the center of a lawsuit and have these texts public tho

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

yup
he said welcome to the team, and she'll be on alot more

just googled and yup
ESPN Hires Angels Rye as Special Correspondent – The Hollywood Reporter

Isn't that what The Undefeated is supposed to be

 

[You Win Perfect]

Flores was doing WR Kenny Stills dirty though! Where was he to pack up players speaking out on racism and police brutality. He thought it was all good. Now he looking foolish. He better call Kenny Stills and apologize.

but I’m glad he airing it out

Latin only cry racism when they find out white people don’t really except them as white.
They be dark as hell talkin about I’m not black.

 

[keond]

Isn't that what The Undefeated is supposed to be

She’s annoying on CNN, she stays with a job and has no credentials

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

Flores lawyers said they have corroborating evidence Ross offered Flores 100k a game to lose… I told y’all that firm wouldn’t have taken that case if Flores didn’t have rock solid proof… Ross is done