The former Bush administration Secretary of State and National Security Adviser could be in line to become the NFL’s first woman head coach, ESPN…
The former Bush administration Secretary of State and National Security Adviser could be in line to become the NFL’s first woman head coach, ESPN reports.
The Cleveland Browns fired Head Coach Hue Jackson on October 29 after the Browns won only three of the 40 games Jackson coached over two-and-a-half seasons. According to Pro Football Reference, the team now has an unexpected candidate on the list to take over Jackson’s job: 64-year-old Condoleezza Rice, who served both as United States Secretary of State and National Security Adviser in the George W. Bush administration.
Rice, a Birmingham, Alabama, native who has also served as provost of prestigious Stanford University, according to Biography.com, has no experience in professional football, but is an avid fan whose name surfaced in 2014 as a possible candidate to become NFL commissioner.
In fact, in 2002, just one year into her job as Bush’s national security adviser, Rice said in an interview that she “absolutely” held ambitions to hold the NFL commissioner’s job, according to the Washington Post. She is also a lifelong fan of the Browns and attends many of their games, according to Schefter.
“A potential interview hardly means the Browns will hire Rice, but they are interested in talking to her about the job and seeing what she could bring to the position and the organization,” Schefter wrote in his Sunday report.
One experience Rice does not have, however, is coaching football, according to USA Today. She has never coached the game at any level. If the Browns hire her, she would become the first woman to hold a head coaching position in the National Football League.
