Naturally it’s easier to be generous in victory than defeat, but he seemed to mean it, and the pair’. “It must be a baseball peculiarity carried over to soccer. ”Perhaps Rooney’s most lasting contribution to the NFL and to sports in general came with the Rooney rule. ”The best-case scenario for the Breakers would be to duplicate the success of the Western New York Flash (minus the sale and relocation) over a two-year span.