Brian Flores sues NFL, three teams, as former Miami Dolphins coach alleges racism in hiring practices

Brian Flores has sued the NFL and three teams — the Dolphins, the Broncos and the Giants — alleging discrimination regarding his interview processes with Denver and New York and his firing last month by Miami.

The 58-page lawsuit was filed in Manhattan federal court Tuesday and seeks class-action status.

In it, Flores alleges Dolphins owner Stephen Ross attempted to incentivize him to «tank,» or purposely lose games, shortly after he was hired in 2019, with Ross allegedly offering Flores $100,000 for every loss that season. Flores says that as the team won games late in the season, Dolphins general manager Chris Grier told him Ross was «mad» that Flores' on-field success was «compromising [the team's] draft position.»

Additionally, Flores alleges Ross pressured him into recruiting a «prominent quarterback» at the end of the 2019 season, which Flores refused so as not to violate the NFL's rules on tampering. Ross then allegedly invited Flores onto a yacht for lunch in the winter of 2020, where he informed him that the quarterback was «conveniently» arriving at the marina for an impromptu meeting.

Flores again refused the meeting and left the yacht. Afterward, Flores alleges he was «treated with disdain and held out as someone who was noncompliant and difficult to work with.»

Former Miami coach Brian Flores has sued the NFL and 3 teams — the Dolphins, Giants and Broncos — alleging in part racism in hiring practices. Among his allegations: Dolphins owner Stephen Ross offered him $100,000 per loss in 2019 to help with the team's draft position, and that the Giants and Broncos conducted «sham» in-person interviews with him in order to comply with the Rooney Rule. The full lawsuit can be found here.

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