Former Patriots Chung Maybe Set With The Upper Hand Legally If He Chooses To Have A Day In Court.

The NFL created an affirmative action rule that would give teams draft picks for hiring African American coaches. The rule was supposed to empower minorities but it was geared towards a specific group of minorities. Early this year, that rule came back to bite the NFL in the ass.

While trying to eliminate racism in the NFL. The league may have created more racism. Which was not the intent but affirmative action laws are never fully thought out to make sure they cannot be abused. Eugene Chung was interviewed by an NFL team who told him he “wasn’t the right minority.” 

Asian Americans have experienced racism for centuries. Many were used as free and cheap labor, especially during the building of the railroads. They were put in camps during the world wars. And in 2020 many were blamed for the pandemic and attacked. They're discrimination and oppression in this country is still on going.

The NFL claimed to of investigated the incident, to which it said it found nothing but that might not be the case. As the league, like with CTE, may be trying to sweep it under the rug. Eugene Chung should've had the government conduct an investigation.

Chung said Monday on ESPN, "I've had one conversation with them. I'd love to work with them hand in hand, but, when it's being written that I'm going to be working with them, and I had only one very brief conversation, I think that's a little misleading.”

Why would the NFL say it's working with Chung, when they're not? Because there are a lot of Asian Americans in the NFL. And the NFL is still recovering from their mishandling of players kneeling. They don't want to admit there's a problem. Chung needs to speak up. he needs to call the country to this issue.

Alex Reimer of WEEI wrote about Chung saying, "Chung went on to describe his conversation with the league as 'almost perfunctory,' saying it lasted for about two minutes. He says every coach whom he’s called about the matter did not speak with anybody from the league."

Chung went on to say, "“I'm not interested in outing anybody. I think that's insignificant and irrelevant to what's going on at hand right now. I'm trying to get back into coaching in the NFL. I'm not letting this comment define who I am as person, as a player, as a coach. I have a lot more to offer this game and this league.”

Legally that's the smart thing for Chung to say. If the NFL doesn't handle this properly, Chung can sue the league for Millions if not Billions. There's no way the league doesn't know this and the responded to Chung's comments saying they "embrace" the chance to work with him.

Which goes to supporting Chungs claims. If the league is working with Chung, why would they say they embrace the opportunity to work with Chung if they already are? The NFL admitted with out trying that their story is B.S., The NFL dropped the ball again. This could have huge implications around the league as Alex Reimer added one more note of interest.

Reimer wrote, "Players of Latino, Asian American, or Pacific Islander descent account for roughly two percent of NFL rosters."

While two percent isn't a lot, it's still a good number of people. Being allowed to tell those two percent that their not the right ethnicity when trying to move on to coaching positions after their careers are done is going to lead to back lash in this country. How many more hits can the NFL afford to take on race relations and racial equality?

And while Chung may just be wanting to get back into coaching, he has a duty to the Asian American community to advocate for justice in this situation or he's just as guilty as the person who committed the act and the league for trying to sweep it under the rug. Let's hope this story doesn't die without corrective actions needed.