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One of the topics we talked about in class we’re how African Americans are underrepresented in most sports especially at positions of high authority. Well today that changed for the Minnesota Vikings, the Vikings fired their head coach Brad Childress and promoted Leslie Frazier. Frazier who has been interviewed for seven head coaching position in his career, and was the Vikings Defensive Coordinator is now their new head coach and he is an African American. While there have been different African American coaches that have won Super Bowls (Mike Tomlin and Tony Dungy) this is still a somewhat new thing to have a Black head coach. There has of course been a recent movement to have owners interview Black candidates for open head coaching positions due to the Rooney rule which states that this must take place, and this will most likely take place with Frazier if he does a good job. While this is still not a ownership position like we mostly talked about in class it is still great for Frazier’s career. In class we discussed how many young African American’s don’t see other African Americans in positions of high status normally this could help change that ever more for young kids and teens who may someday want to be a head coach and are fans of the Vikings. Coakley also talks about how things like this are good to continue to get diversity at the higher positions in sports organizations. (310) Things like Frazier becoming interim head coach only help that even more.
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