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In the contact sport that is the NFL news beat, Jim Trotter breaks away from the huddle. At Sports Illustrated he hooked readers with his revealing profiles of reticent stars and his insider’s perspective on the league’s inner workings. At ESPN and NFL Media he was an even more marked outlier, the TV watchdog who insisted on holding league power brokers to account without giving a moment’s thought to lost access or favor. At The Athletic, the expectation was that Trotter would keep up the good work after joining the company in May 2023 – the same month he became the second Black journalist to ever be recognized with the equivalent of the pro football writers’ lifetime achievement award.
But then, four months later, a bombshell hit the sports ticker: Trotter had filed a lawsuit against the NFL. “I told them before I ever took the job that there was a very real possibility I was going to sue the NFL,” Trotter says. “I was told that it wouldn’t be a problem. But once I told them I was going to file, I was given the option of delaying the suit and continuing to cover the NFL or being taken off the beat while the case was pending. I told them the case was too important for what I was fighting for to not go forward.” Ultimately, The Athletic’s splashy new NFL hire was dispatched farther afield.
The original 53-page motion reverberated across US sports. In the lawsuit, Trotter claimed the league and its broadcast arm did not renew his contract after he raised concerns about the lack of diversity among the NFL’s executives, coaches and journalists. He further alleged that two team owners had dismissed these concerns when confronted with them directly in explicitly bigoted rhetoric.
What’s more, this news landed on the back of three other race-based motions against the NFL: Colin Kaepernick’s collusion complaint, the discrimination lawsuit filed by former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores and the wrongful termination case brought by former…
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Author : The Guardian
Publish date : 2024-10-11 10:00:52
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