Just when I thought it couldn't get worse.
Yes, yes, it is historic that this is the first Super Bowl in history in which both head coaches are African-American. Great strides, yadda yadda yadda.
But now with the Tomlin hire, the talk is perpetuated. Dan Rooney established the minority candidate rule in interviewing head coaches, and just happened to hire a black coach. Insert racial subplot here. But doesn't that take away from Tomlin's acheivement? The guy wasn't hired to be the first black coach in Steelers Franchise history. He was hired because he was a young coach on the rise, not unlike Cowher. STOP STRESSING THE COLOR OF HIS SKIN.
Ironically, the fact that the media keeps harping on this "evidence of progress in race relations" in sports is proof that we haven't come that far at all. We're still seperating black coaches from white coaches. We're looking for a quota to fill. As soon as we don't look at the coaches, the owners, and the players as races, and regard them as professionals, we are THEN working towards equality. Just SHUT UP with the racial subplots, PLEASE.
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