Bright story offers a lesson to NFL owners.

The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune NewsService) | May 19, 2003 | Copyright

Byline: Frank Fitzpatrick

PHILADELPHIA _ Fifty-one years after it caused Johnny Bright to turn his back on the Eagles and his country, the problem of race has not yet disappeared from the National Football League.

When the NFL owners convene Tuesday in Philadelphia, one of the issues confronting them will be the league's record in hiring black head coaches.

Many of those executives are too young or too busy or too new to the sport to know the story of Johnny Bright. The Eagles' Jeffrey Lurie, for example, was 4 months old when Philadelphia made the ...

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