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Steelers Owner Art Rooney II Responds To Florida Attorney General’s Push To Eliminate The Rooney Rule

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The Pittsburgh Steelers’ former owner, Dan Rooney, is credited with creating The Rooney Rule in late 2002. In 2003, the rule was implemented in the National Football League. Dan chaired the committee and helped get the rule into place, which is how it got named after him. Now, Art Rooney II is the team president and owner of the Steelers. Art was hit with a predicament when Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier sent a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. The letter was made known about on Wednesday and since then, the NFL world has been taken by storm. Uthmeier's letter to Goodell called the rule out for what he believes to be “blatant race and sex discrimination.”

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