{"id":108899,"date":"2016-12-16T10:40:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T15:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/?p=108899"},"modified":"2016-12-16T10:52:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T15:52:48","slug":"watch-nfl-on-cbss-james-brown-offers-heartfelt-thanks-to-pittsburgh-steelers-chairman-dan-rooney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/2016\/12\/16\/watch-nfl-on-cbss-james-brown-offers-heartfelt-thanks-to-pittsburgh-steelers-chairman-dan-rooney\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: NFL on CBS\u2019s James Brown Offers Heartfelt Thanks to Pittsburgh Steelers Chairman Dan Rooney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Steelers chairman Dan Rooney is a sports ownership icon and, now, a Sports Broadcasting Hall of Famer.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/RooneyBrown.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-108907\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/RooneyBrown.jpg\" alt=\"rooneybrown\" width=\"440\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/RooneyBrown.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/RooneyBrown.jpg 225w, https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/RooneyBrown.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/RooneyBrown.jpg 768w, https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/RooneyBrown.jpg 892w, https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/RooneyBrown.jpg 458w, https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/RooneyBrown.jpg 345w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a>There are many throughout the sport of football who look to Rooney as a trailblazing man of character that has changed the game for the better and one famous face took the chance to offer his thanks.<\/p>\n<p>Following Rooney\u2019s acceptance speech Tuesday night, ceremony emcee James Brown, host of the NFL on CBS took to the mic to offer an impromptu thanks to the legendary owner.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOne of the other [characteristics you have] is the excellence that you have embodied wrapped in old school values and virtues which are, by the way, timeless. But I also want to thank you that you have taken our number one sport and made it more diverse and inclusive as sports has often done in terms of moving things forward in society.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rooney\u2019s most lasting legacy is likely to be his advocacy for racial equality across the NFL, which led to formation of the famous \u201cRooney Rule,\u201d a league-wide policy that requires teams to interview minority candidates for head-coaching and senior football-operations jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Brown\u2019s entire comments to Dan Rooney:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MVszFobkJz0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>For more video coverage from the 2016 SVG Summit and the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/on-demand\/video\/\">SVG On Demand<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Steelers chairman Dan Rooney is a sports ownership icon and, now, a Sports Broadcasting Hall of Famer.\n&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/2016\/12\/16\/watch-nfl-on-cbss-james-brown-offers-heartfelt-thanks-to-pittsburgh-steelers-chairman-dan-rooney\/\" class=\"more\">More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":108907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[37,9248],"tags":[6769,5093,3181],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108945,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108899\/revisions\/108945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}