As I write this, there is just one Black NFL head coach. One.
And that single Black head coach in a 32-team league — Pittsburgh's Mike Tomlin — has never had a losing season in his 15 years at the helm.
This is the standard to which Black coaches are held. An almost impossible one.
The Houston Texans fired David Culley on Thursday, after just one season in the job and three days after putting him through the dog-and-pony show of sitting before media on Monday and talking as if he were getting a Year 2.