NFL commissioner Roger Goodell announced the week before the Super Bowl that the league would be instituting a new hiring practice that opened the door for more women to be interviewed for executive positions.
That rule has been implemented and already has shown results, according to the NFL.
League spokesman Brian McCarthy told Shutdown Corner that the rule — which was modeled after the NFL’s “Rooney Rule,” which requires that franchise interview at least one minority candidate for each vacant head coaching and top front-office position — has been implemented already.