Race, football, and the Rooney Rule
The Pittsburgh Steelers are heading into their seventh Super Bowl. They’ve won five of those match-ups and, if they win on Sunday, they would break the record for most Super Bowl championships in the NFL. But there’s another Steelers legacy that many sports writers are celebrating this year and that is the so-called “Rooney Rule”. Gene Wojciechoski is a senior national columnist for ESPN.com and joins us to talk about the rule and why it is getting so much attention this year.
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