Florida AG Uthmeier subpoenas NFL over diversity, inclusion initiatives

[Zorro]

“The Rooney Rule and its offshoots are illegal in Florida,” James Uthmeier told the league in March.

James Uthmeier, Florida’s attorney general, has intensified his scrutiny of the National Football League’s diversity and inclusion policies by issuing a subpoena.

This escalation comes after Uthmeier penned a letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell in March asking the league to stop enforcing the “Rooney Rule,” which requires teams to interview minority candidates for open coaching and front office roles, in Florida.

In a letter Wednesday to Ted Ullyot, the league’s executive vice president and general counsel, Uthmeier thanked the NFL for saying that it no longer requires the consideration of race or sex in the hiring of at least one offensive assistant coach, and for updating its website in response to his initial letter.

But, Uthmeier wrote, it wasn’t enough to quell his concerns.

“All in all, the Rooney Rule and the NFL’s related ‘inclusive hiring’ policies — and the NFL’s representation about those policies — continue to raise significant concerns under Florida law,” he wrote.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2026/05/13/james-uthmeier-florida-subpoena-nfl-rooney-rule-dei-diversity-equity-inclusion/

[johnnyfins]

1. All under the color of law.

God help this country.

[Srkdqltr]

2. So all minorities should not ....? What? Fire them all and just keep Whites? Thats interesting.

[NoMoreRepugs]

3. Why do AA college athletes go to schools in these Confederate states?

[stumpysbear]

4. $$$$$$

[LA Blue Bengal]

5. Most of the larger schools

are in blue cities. Notable exceptions being Ole Miss, as Lane Kiffin recently got in some hot water for saying:

Kiffin told the publication that elite prospects would tell him “Hey, coach, we really like you. But my grandparents aren’t letting me move to Oxford, Mississippi.”

“That doesn’t come up when you say Baton Rouge, Louisiana,” Kiffin said. “Parents were sitting here this weekend saying the campus’s diversity feels so great: ‘It feels like there’s no segregation. And we want that for our kid because that’s the real world.’”

Former RB Brandon Bolden had something to say as well:
https://youtube.com/shorts/ci7C4eIsFmE?si=J7enrCvpHyahQJJi

[AZJonnie]

6. You don't have to give any minorities any jobs, and you only have to interview ONE of them for the job

There's no hiring quotas, and only ONE TEAM has ever had to pay a fine for violating it.

In 2003, the Detroit Lions were fined $200,000 for failing to interview minority candidates before hiring Steve Mariucci. While investigations have occurred since, no other team has been directly penalized for a violation

OMFG THE HORRORS.

Fuck these racist, fascist fucks

[HAB911]

7. The NFL is big enough to

stuff it up Uthmeier's ass, and they better do it