Longo also intends to play for the women’s basketball team at Adams State as a non-scholarship player. 38?BSTDan Rooney, the powerful and popular Pittsburgh Steelers chairman whose name is attached to the NFL’s landmark initiative in minority hiring, died Thursday. ally play at a high level for a long period of time, without suffering major injury or physical degradation. It requires franchises to look at minority candidates they might otherwise not consider, listen to their pitches and maybe make a choice they might not have made before.