The 49ers traded Bob Eldred to the Jets for saying:
 BE> You know, this is an argument that will not ever end.
It'll end when people are given an equal chance. They don't necessarily have 
to get the job but at least the opportunity. Art Shell, Emmitt Thomas, 
Sherman Lewis, etal weren't even given interviews while white coaches with 
FAR less experience were.
 BE> I don't even know why people bother getting into it.
Because if you let it happen, it will continue to happen. If it were not for 
Al Davis, there might still not be a black head coach in the NFL. As long as 
the owners believe that they can get away with it, they'll do it. The 
pressure applied by Davis opened up the door slightly and the press and the 
public opened it up even more. Unfortunately, it'll probably take a Super 
Bowl win to kick it wide open.
 BE> It will not end, nobody will prove the other wrong, and nobody will
 BE> be convinced.
Nobody? Bob, if a white guy with 4 years or less pro experience gets the job 
while a black guy with 14 doesn't even get an interview, something is 
definitely wrong. When they say that a guy has to have some kind of 
coordinator experience but they hire white guys even when they never had the 
title, something is wrong. When they say that coordinator isn't good enough 
and they have to have *some* head coaching experience, even if it's at a 
small college and yet, they continue to hire white guys that have NO head 
coaching experience while ignoring black guys who accepted college jobs to 
satisfy the *requirements*, you know that something is wrong.
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