There is only so long you can carry a chip on your shoulder before it starts to weigh you down,” he says. Veteran US sportscaster Jack Whitaker was the play-by-man man. What I want is an organization that can be together, one where everybody in the place has the same goal, and that is to win. Until Rooney’s diversity committee came up with the Rooney rule in 2003, those candidates were almost always white.