Correction! Correction! There is one African American who is owner of an NFL team by the name of Reggie Fowler. He owns 40% of Minnesota Vikings.
In the NBA, Michael Jordan owns majority share of Charlotte Bobcats.
Art Shell became the first African American NFL head coach of the modern era when he was hired by the Los Angeles Raiders in 1989.
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Jim Thorpe (link below) was probably the first American Indian to play pro football. He played professionally with the Pine Village Pros in Indiana in 1913 and later went on to become the first president of the NFL, where he also played for the Oorang Indians (an all-American Indian team) in Ohio.
Fritz Pollard was the first African-American coach in the National Football League. He coached the Chicago Black Hawks in the 1920s.
San Francisco 49ers fullback Joe Perry in 1954.
NFL team owners are ridiculously wealthy. Each team is worth around $500,000,000+, so NFL team owners are probably worth around $400,000,000,000.
African-American NFL owners: Reggie Fowler: Minority Owner, Minnesota Vikings. Kirbyjon Caldwell: Limited Partner, Houston Texans Serena & Venus Williams: Limited Partners, Miami Dolphins
Fritz Pollard was the first African American quarterback in the NFL. He was also the first African American coach in the NFL.
first African-American to play in the nfl, bill willis from Ohio state (nfl team is Cleveland browns)
Former New York Giants Cornerback, Ray Rhodes, was the second African-American head coach in NFL history.
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The NFL team owners own the NFL.
While the percentage of African-Americans in the United States stands at about 13%, the percentage of players in the NFL who are African-American is much higher. Roughly about 2/3 (66%) of the NFL is currently African-American.
NFL Players Assoication and the NFL Team owners
Only if all the coaches are gone
Dallas Cowboys
Oakland Raiders