Here's how the 3 NFL teams that Brian Flores accused of racial discrimination have responded

By Christina Maxouris, CNN

Updated 0229 GMT (1029 HKT) February 4, 2022

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(CNN)In a lawsuit that rocked America's most popular sport this week, former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores accused the NFL and three of its teams of racial discrimination — allegations they strongly deny.

Brian Flores, who is accusing the NFL of racial discrimination, is not one to back downFlores, who is Black, alleges in the class-action suit that the New York Giants interviewed him for the head coaching job as a ruse, having already decided on Brian Daboll, to show NFL leadership and the public they were abiding by diversity efforts.He was subjected to another «sham interview» in 2019 with the Denver Broncos, Flores alleges, to which team leadership showed up late, looking «disheveled» and like «they had been drinking heavily the night before.»Flores also alleges Dolphins' owner Stephen Ross offered to pay him to purposely lose games in order to secure a higher pick in the NFL draft and encouraged him to violate league tampering rules. Flores says when he refused, Ross led a campaign to treat him with «disdain and held out as someone who was noncompliant and difficult to work with.»The NFL refuted the allegations in Tuesday's lawsuit, saying in a statement: «Diversity is core to everything we do.»Read MoreHere's how the Giants, Broncos and Dolphins responded this week. New York GiantsThe Giants called Flores' claims about the head coach candidacy «disturbing and simply false» in a Thursday statement.The team interviewed «six exceptional and diverse candidates,» the statement said, and decided who would be hired as head coach on January 28, a day