Former New York Giants defensive end and Super Bowl champion George Martin said that Brian Flores would become “the Rosa Parks of the NFL” after filing a lawsuit against the league and several teams for racial discrimination in hiring practices.
Flores, the ex-Miami Dolphins head coach, filed the lawsuit weeks after he was fired from the team and then experienced what he called a sham interview with the New York Giants organization. A team Flores claims had no intention of hiring him and only gave him an interview because of the league’s racial diversity guidelines.
In an interview with CNN’s John Berman, Martin said “it took an inordinate amount of courage” for Flores to bring this lawsuit against the NFL.
“With this lawsuit, it’s obvious Brian is going to become the Rosa Parks of the NFL and rightly so,” Martin explained.
The former Giant said Flores was standing up “against one of the largest corporations in the world [to] talk about the fact there is less opportunity for people of color than there are otherwise.”
