FOOTBALL AND PREJUDICE.

FOOTBALL AND PREJUDICE. A young African-American man told me fairly recently that he encountered racial prejudice almost every day. The Super Bowl will have a match up of two African-American coaches for the first time. Although a majority of the players in the National Football League are African-American and have been for a long time, there are only a handful of African-American head coaches. Lovie Smith and Tony Dungy had been very highly regarded assistant coaches in the National Football League for many years before getting their chance to be a head coach. That two of them are in the Super Bowl is evidence that they had to be better in order to get the job. The situation with college football coaching is even worse, with only a few African-American coaches out of hundreds of jobs.