Former NBA Star Chris Bosh Says He’s Boycotting The NFL Due To Lack Of Black Coaches

Chris Bosh Reveals He’s Boycotting The NFL Due To Lack Of Black Coaches

With the super bowl approaching in the next few weeks it looks like Chris Bosh won’t be watching. 

In his latest newsletter, Bosh disclosed that he’s boycotting the NFL. He expressed that he’s very frustrated with the way Black coaches are dealt with.

Almost exactly a year ago, on the eve of the Super Bowl, I wrote about this injustice: How the NFL, where more than one in two players are Black, had hardly any Black coaches,” Bosh wrote. “Not only is that still the case, but they’ve regressed: there are fewer Black head coaches now than there were when the season began—down to an appalling count of one.

 

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“Over the last few weeks, I’ve watched the discrimination behind that disparity play out in real time. I’m happy anytime anyone gets a job, but it sure seems like the white guys are having an easier time becoming head coaches and general managers nowadays, while Black coaches are held to an entirely different standard.”

Bosh added that he won’t watch the NFL with his children until he sees additional coaches on the sideline that “look like them.”

“I want to be able to watch the Super Bowl next to my kids, knowing they’ll see people who look like them on the field and the sidelines,” the two-time NBA champion tweeted. “I want them to know that the next great strategic mind might belong to a coach who isn’t necessarily white.”

In the last part of this Twitter thread, Bosh shared “Football needs to promote those who have proved themselves—and keep them around.”