Under pressure from civil rights advocates three years ago, the
NFL established a rule requiring teams to interview at least one
minority candidate before hiring a head coach.

But this year, the so-called "Rooney Rule" is being supplanted
by one of football's more time-honored tenets: If it works,
consider copying it.

In a breakthrough year for black coaches, the Chicago Bears' Lovie Smith and Cincinnati Bengals' Marvin Lewis led recently downtrodden teams to the playoffs. Tony Dungy's Indianapolis... ...more (http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2290112&campaign=rss&source=NFLHeadlines)

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