Do We Still Need The Rooney Rule?

House of L podcast

Laurence W. Holmes

Sports, History

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Laurence talks with Jim Rooney, author of "A Better Way To Win" and son of the architect of the "Rooney Rule," Dan Rooney. Jim explains what's worked and what still needs to get better.

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1:00.1	talked to Jim in a little bit, but he's, he's as important now as he's ever been. If we want to
1:07.2	try and understand the root of the Rooney rule and the importance of the Rooney rule
1:12.5	and how it's changed and how it can continue to change. Why not talk with, I don't know,
1:19.4	a Rooney about all of this. So Jim Rooney joins me. His book, A Different Way to Win,
1:25.6	is a love letter to what the Rooney family has tried to do for years to make it more equitable of hiring in the NFL and Jim joins me now.
1:39.1	Jim first of all, it's great to see you. I haven't seen you in little bit i'm i'm happy that you're still doing well
1:44.9	and that you were still trying to fight the good fight lawrence thank you and yes it's really it's
1:51.0	really good to be with you i love what you do and and how you do it and um so so it is an important
1:58.0	conversation unfortunately you know in the in, in the larger, you know, political, you know, economic world that we live in,
2:08.0	we need to have this conversation more than I think we should.
2:11.5	But there's no question that there is a battle against these efforts right now.
2:17.6	And, you know, so I'm glad that we're talking about it.
2:22.9	How to give people some background on this, because the folks, I've read the book and it's
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