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For the National Football League, the numbers don’t lie. At the start of the 2025 season, five Black men held head coaching jobs, but today, only a few remain. Earlier this year, Mike Tomlin stepped away from the Pittsburgh Steelers, ending one of the longest and most stable tenures in modern league history.
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