James Loving - National Radio Text Service Vermeil proved his critics wrong by turning around the NFL's worst team in the 90's into Super Bowl champions within three years. At the start of the season the odds were 200-1 that the Rams could win the NFL's grand prize.
Discrimination is one of the world's major problems, though it is for race, age or gender.
It's common to see want ads in Thailand newspapers listing the job qualifications and blatantly noting that the position is open ONLY for a female, Thai nationality, not over 25. Many in the media felt that Vermeil, then 59 years old, was TOO OLD to do the job. Some of the brash media went as far as to say that he was too old to communicate with his young players. They certainly weren't raised to respect their elders. It's amazing that teachers and professors have jobs.