This year Trotter won the Bill Nunn Jr. Award from the Pro Football Hall of Fame for his “long and distinguished contribution to pro football through coverage.”
to determine concussion settlements and, of course, quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who says he was kept from playing again in the league after he began protesting racial injustice in the U.S. by kneeling during pregame performances of the national anthem.
Trotter, as someone working for the media arm of the NFL, says higher-ups in NFL Media told him not to do a report about what he heard Jones say.Diversity and inclusion are extremely important to me personally and to the NFL . Mr. Trotter’s departure from NFL Media was one of many difficult decisions — similar to decisions recently made by many other media organizations — to address a challenging economy and a changing media environment.”
“What I found is that players were fair game, coaches were fair game, general managers were fair game, but the league office and the league owners were not fair game,” Trotter told me Wednesday. He said one of his supervisors had told him: “‘We will always report the news, no matter what.’ What I naively didn’t realize was that when he said ‘we will report the news,’ he meant ‘we will report news if others know about it as it relates to owners or the league office.
Because the NFL is a league whose billions are built on a foundation that includes harmed Black brains and bodies, Trotter’s questions hit the NFL where it is politically and publicly most vulnerable.
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