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Born in Brooklyn to Honduran immigrant parents, raised in a Brownsville housing project, Brian Flores grew up rooting for the New York Giants. He was 5 when the boys in blue, coached by Bill Parcells, routed Dan Reeves’ Broncos 39-20 to win it all, and 9 when Parcells’ team beat Marv Levy’s Bills 20-19 in a Super Bowl for the ages. Those aforementioned coaches are white. Flores is Black. As a damning lawsuit he just filed in Manhattan federal court details, only one of the NFL’s 32 teams currently employs a Black head coach. Yet despite that glaring lack of diversity in a league where 70% of p…