And when that employee comes to join the team, it’s not just them, it’s their family,” she says. Not just the players but coaches and scouts, they can be pulled out very quickly and dropped into a new city, a new environment. Being part of a football family has given her insight into some of the needs of her players’ and staff’s families. Her husband, Don Morgan, is a former NFL player for the Minnesota Vikings and Arizona Cardinals. It wasn’t something she sought out, she says the NFL wasn’t a specific career goal of hers.īut she already knew what NFL life was like before taking the job. The appointment made Douglass Morgan the first Black woman to hold such a position in the NFL. After the Raiders football franchise moved from Oakland to Las Vegas in 2020, the team’s owner tapped Douglass Morgan to serve as the team’s president in 2022. A former Las Vegas city attorney, she had chaired the Nevada Gaming Control Board. “If we’re not in it, it’s about as good as it’s going to get,” she told me of her Super Bowl LVII experience.ĭouglass Morgan is a Las Vegas native and a longtime leader in Nevada’s business and policy communities.
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