After being fired by the Miami Dolphins, football coach Brian Flores is suing the NFL and three teams for discrimination.

Beijing (SID) – After being fired by the Miami Dolphins, football coach Brian Flores is suing the NFL and three teams for discrimination. The league is “in some ways racially segregated and run like a plantation,” the indictment says: “The 32 team owners – none of them black – profit significantly from the work of NFL players, 70 percent of whom are black.” The NFL is defending itself against the allegations.

Flores filed his lawsuit in a New York state district court on Tuesday. “The owners watch the games from their luxury boxes in the stadiums while their majority-black employees put their bodies on the line every Sunday, taking vicious beatings and suffering violent injuries to their bodies and brains,” Flores’ lawyers wrote. Meanwhile, the NFL and team owners would make millions of dollars from the spectacle.

In addition to his former club, the black coach is also taking on the New York Giants and the Denver Broncos, where he was considered a candidate but did not get the job. The case is set up as a class action. “My sincere hope is that others will join by standing up against systemic racism in the NFL to bring about change for generations to come,” said Flores, 40, a longtime scout for the New England Patriots.

The NFL responded immediately, saying it was “deeply committed” to “fair employment practices” with its clubs and would “continue to make progress on equal opportunity in our organisation”. “Diversity is at the core of what we do,” there are few issues that clubs and league leadership would address more extensively, the NFL wrote: “We will fight back against these unfounded allegations. “