Keidel: Black Monday In The NFL

By Jason Keidel
For a few NFL head coaches, there was nothing happy about New Year’s Day.
It’s either ironic or just plain ugly that Black Monday — the most professionally gruesome day on the football calendar, which italicizes the NFL’s haunting acronym, Not For Long — came on one of our more celebrated holidays. In the 1980s, the average tenure of an NFL coach was around 8.5 years. Now it’s barely more than three years.
So let’s run down the newly unem