Dan Rooney and Brian Flores, Two Men Now Linked Together Forever as Part of NFL History

By Robert J. Romano, JD LLM, Senior Writer The Rooney Rule is a National Football League policy requiring each of its 32 franchises to interview minority and female candidates for head coaching and other front-office positions when they become available within an organization.[1] Created in 2003 by NFL’s Workplace Diversity Committee, a Committee tasked with creating initiatives to address the historically low number of minorities who have held head coaching positions in the NFL, the rule o