{"id":206624,"date":"2026-03-26T08:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/206624\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:45:14","slug":"florida-attorney-general-calls-out-nfl-hiring-rule-sends-letter-to-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/206624\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida attorney general calls out NFL hiring rule, sends letter to commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is sending a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, urging the league to suspend the Rooney Rule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Uthmeier argues the rule, which requires teams to interview minority candidates for certain coaching and front-office jobs, violates Florida law by involving race in hiring decisions. He called it discriminatory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe are demanding the NFL suspend the Rooney Rule, and failure to do so may result in enforcement actions against the league for race-based discrimination,\u201d Uthmeier said. \u201cNFL teams and their fans don\u2019t care about the race of the coaching staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Uthmeier gave the league until May 1 to stop enforcing the rule for NFL teams in Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is sending a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8232,28,30,29,4260,119,94753,94733],"class_list":["post-206624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-attorney-general","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-james-uthmeier","tag-nfl","tag-roger-goodell","tag-rooney-rule"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}