The NFL’s main DEI initiative is the Rooney Rule, adopted in 2003 to help increase the number of minority coaches and executives in the league. (It’s named after Dan Rooney, t

Perhaps nobody has come after Goodell harder than the current White House occupant himself, who lambasted the league throughout the 2017 season for permitting players to take a knee during the national anthem. He called the (mostly Black) players “sons of b*tches” and caused the league’s owners to convene a special meeting.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said on Monday he had no plans to scale back on diversity programs, after U.S. President Donald Trump called for similar initiatives to be dismantled within the federal government and urged private companies to do the same.