The Rooney Rule is a National Football League policy that requires teams to interview ethnic-minority candidates for head coaching and senior football operation jobs. Initially, the program mandated i
Dan Rooney, the policy's namesake
Mike Singletary with the San Francisco 49ers
In 1952, six years after the NFL officially desegregated again, Art Rooney's Pittsburgh Steelers had only one black player on the roster, fullback Jack Spinks (#37).
Ronald Eugene Rivera is an American professional football executive and former linebacker and coach who is the general manager for the University of California–Berkeley, his alma mater. He played nine
Rivera in 2022
Rivera as Carolina Panthers head coach, 2016
Rivera as Washington Football Team head coach, 2022
Rivera and his wife Stephanie in 2020