The Honeymooners

Coach Jerry Glanville may have moved from Houston to Atlanta , but he'll still wear a bulletproof vest during certain road games, as he did several times last year with the Oilers....

The NFL is inching snaillike toward some semblance of racial balance within its coaching ranks, with the off-season appointments of the league's only black offensive coordinators, Ray Sherman in Atlanta and Jimmy Raye in New England . At present, there are no black defensive coordinators. The league's three-year-old intern program, which gives black coaching candidates pro experience during training camps, has seen four of those prospects earn full-time assistant coaching jobs. "Is it significant? Yes," says David Cornwell, the NFL 's director of equal employment. "Is it sufficient? No."

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