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Like Neil Young coming out of left field to announce he’s boycotting Spotify and pulling his hits off the music-sharing platform, former NBA great and Basketball Hall of Famer Chris Bosh announced this week he’s fed up with the NFL and he’s boycotting the league.
His reason? The league doesn’t employ enough black head coaches.
“Over the last few weeks, I’ve watched the discrimination behind that disparity play out in real time,” Bosh wrote on his website. I’m happy anytime anyone gets a job, but it sure seems like the white guys are having an easier time becoming head coaches and general managers nowadays, while Black coaches are held to an entirely different standard.”
Bosh also wrote on Twitter how he wants to be able to watch the Super Bowl with his kids “knowing they’ll see people who look like them on the field and the sidelines.”
“I want them to know that the next great strategic mind might belong to a coach who isn’t necessarily white.”
And until the NFL fixes it, Bosh says he’s done with the NFL. DONE! No more NFL for this guy.
I want to be able to watch the Super Bowl next to my kids, knowing they’ll see people who look like them on the field and the sidelines. I want them to know that the next great strategic mind might belong to a coach who isn’t necessarily white.
— Chris Bosh (@chrisbosh) January 31, 2022
Because I know they’re out there, future Belichicks and Lombardis and Maddens who happen to not be white men. Football needs to promote those who have proved themselves—and keep them around.
— Chris Bosh (@chrisbosh) January 31, 2022
It’s possible Bosh wasn’t a big NFL guy to begin with. He spent two paragraphs in his manifesto explaining how unfair it was for Brian Flores to be fired when the Lions have given Dan Campbell two seasons as head coach.
Seriously, Bosh wrote that.
“After all, have you seen the coaches and executives who were rewarded for posting records worse than Flores’ this year? Let’s go to Detroit first: a few weeks after the Dolphins’ decision, the Lions chose to keep their new head coach—despite finishing the season at 3-13. And that’s a year after going 5-11! I’m not trying to get personal, but this is sports,” Bosh writes. “A record is what it is.”
A quick look at Pro Football Reference shows that it’s Dan’s first year in Detroit.
As for how many black head coaches it would take for Bosh to watch the NFL again, he hasn’t answered that. He also hasn’t listed his full demands.
Bosh also doesn’t address the Flores-Tua situation that was described to OutKick’s Armando Salguero as being “shitty.” Flores was said to be “really hard” on Tua and allegedly told people within the organization that “We’ll never win a championship with this guy.”
And, as Salguero writes, that caused a rift with Dolphins’ general manager Chris Grier, who is black.
All the pandering, slogans on the field/helmets and million of dollars to organizations still couldn’t save the NFL. I am sure it will be racist that both QBs in the super bowl are white soon enough.
SO Chris Bosh doesn’t think the players on the field will be black? 70% of the employees in the NFL are black……White people need to start demanding equality
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Yep, need more White representation on all the teams. Whites are being discriminated against both in the NFL and NBA. I want to see more players that look like me.
Who cares? I know a lot of white people that won`t watch the NBA anymore because of all the hypocritical social justice bullshit by a lot of black players.
If Chris Bosh sat next to me in a bar I wouldn’t know who he is.
I wouldn’t know either, but once i found out, i’d move.
Wonder if Mike Tomlin or Tony Dungy would let Bosh’s son try on their Super Bowl rings ???
I will be boycotting NBA because too many black players and not enough white ones.
Another cry baby multi millionaire black never satisfied always whining about something just gtfo
Guess Bosh has never heard of Hue Jackson. Or his stellar 3-36-1 record. But RAySiSUM
I have a similar take as Bosh. I refuse to watch the NBA until the players look more like me, a 5’10” white guy in his 40’s. I demand equality!
“I want to be able to watch the Super Bowl next to my kids, knowing they’ll see people who look like them on the field and the sidelines”
Oh Chris, like the NBA?? The sidelines of the NFL is 60% black players. I guess 5x your representation in society isn’t enough.
Correct these types are never satisfied ever
Twitter went below 34 after hours today, it was 85 a year ago. Facebook, or Meta, or whatever the fuck it is now, just missed earnings and dropped 23% after hours… the long and short of it is that no one gives a shit what this guy thinks and pontificates about on social media, he might as well be alone on a mountain peeing into the wind.
Fritz Pollard*, Tony Dungy*, Marvin Lewis, Hue Jackson, Dennis Green, Lovie Smith*, Mike Singletary, Herman Edwards, Ray Rhodes, Jim Caldwell*, Art Shell, Todd Bowles, Vance Joseph, Steve Wilks, Romeo Crennell, Raheem Morris, Leslie Frazier
… AND … Mr & Mrs Tomlin’s son – Mike – who for the past 14 years has been HFC in Pittsburgh.
I want to be able to watch the Super Bowl commercials and not think I live in a 3rd world country where white people are not the majority. A half time show that my 9-year-old can watch too, not some profane crap from out of touch rappers and an over the hill Mary J. Blige.