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Tuesday, 12 October 2021, 12:48 BFH Uncategorized 24

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A couple weeks ago, Jon Gruden was finally paying off for the Las Vegas Raiders. His team was 3-0. That 10-year, $100 million contract didn’t seem so bad. 

Nobody could have ever guessed that two weeks later, Gruden would be done as Raiders head coach because of emails spanning 10 years revealed ugly racist, anti-gay and misogynistic comments. 

On Monday night, less than an hour after a New York Times report that Gruden had sent emails that contained disturbing comments, Gruden resigned. 

In a statement, Gruden said: 

“I have resigned as Head Coach of the Las Vegas Raiders. I love the Raiders and do not want to be a distraction. Thank you to all the players, coaches, staff, and fans of Raider Nation. I’m sorry, I never meant to hurt anyone.”

In a statement of his own, Vegas owner Mark Davis said he accepted Gruden’s resignation. 

Raiders assistant Rich Bisaccia will be the interim head coach, according to ESPN reporter Suzy Kolber. 

The New York Times story came after last week’s revelation that Gruden had sent an email containing racist comments regarding NFLPA head DeMaurice Smith. 

Jon Gruden’s emails leaked

Last week, as part of an investigation into the misogynistic culture of the Washington Football Team, an email Gruden sent to then-Washington team president Bruce Allen in 2011 was leaked. In it, Gruden said of NFLPA head DeMaurice Smith: “Dumboriss Smith has lips the size of michellin [sic] tires.”

Gruden said he wasn’t racist. But then on Monday, The New York Times reported that other emails Gruden sent, which were also unearthed as part of the WFT investigation, said Gruden used anti-gay slurs. He referred to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell as a “fa****t” and a “clueless anti football p****y.” Gruden said in an email that Goodell shouldn’t have pressured then-St. Louis Rams coach Jeff Fisher to draft “queers,” a reference to Michael Sam. Sam was the first openly gay player drafted by the NFL in 2014. 

The New York Times report also said Gruden, in emails, criticized the hiring of women as referees and also the acceptance of players protesting for racial justice during the national anthem. The Times said Gruden also exchanged photos of topless women with Allen, including one of WFT’s cheerleaders. 

Gruden wasn’t an employee of the NFL in 2011. He was in a prominent position with one of the NFL’s broadcast partners, as the lead color analyst on ESPN’s “Monday Night Football.” There was a flimsy argument that the NFL couldn’t punish Gruden because he wasn’t an employee when the email regarding Smith was sent, but then came the second report with even more horrible emails. Gruden wasn’t going to survive that. 

Gruden’s return wasn’t successful

Gruden’s legacy, before the emails, was fairly uncomplicated. He was a dynamic young coach early in his career, first with the Oakland Raiders and then the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, where he won a Super Bowl. He went to ESPN and became perhaps the most famous announcer calling the NFL for a decade. He was featured on beer commercials. Finally Raiders owner Mark Davis convinced Gruden to come back and coach, with the enormous contract making it hard to say no. 

Gruden had three unsuccessful seasons on the field in his return. His fourth season was going better. The Raiders were 3-0, but then came two losses. The second loss, to the Chicago Bears on Sunday, was overshadowed by the racist email Gruden sent regarding Smith. 

The news of Gruden no longer being Raiders coach broke, coincidentally, during “Monday Night Football.” Color commentators Brian Griese and Louis Riddick reacted. 

“It’s awful. It’s awful to hear that,” Griese said. “Clearly there was more than the one email exchange about DeMaurice Smith. With all those things coming out, I don’t see any way Mark Davis couldn’t have that conversation with Jon Gruden. You can’t come back from that, not in this day and age, nor should he.” 

“As someone who played for him, it’s highly, highly disappointing to say the least. I’ll just leave it at that,” Riddick said. “That all of this is coming out about a guy who … I’m just shocked.” 

The end for Gruden came fast, and in an unexpected way. 

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24 Comments on Gruden

  8. ^^^^^

    I was just going to say that if you looked up the definition of coach in your Funk and Wagnall’s, I’m pretty sure it’s say’s grouchy men that say inappropriate shit.

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  10. “He referred to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell as a “fa****t” and a “clueless anti football p****y.””
    And? So? I agree with him. Which part of that statement is not true?
    Ohhhh….I get it. It’s not about “true” or “false”. It’s about being non-PC offensive. Or, in other words, a normally thick-skinned free spoken individual who can give as well as he takes.
    Another data point to NOT watch NFL.

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  12. He blasted 2 of GWB’s BFFs. A verbatim quote, “Biden is clueless pussy”

    Think back almost 1 year exactly when Am Thinker blasted GWB for making Pentagon WOKE! He got the Soros lawyers to threaten to shut down AT. “do not mess withe leftist Texas!”

    If you thought last year’s AT article was BDS , explain why we got our asses kicked in Kabul and the world now thinks Americans are PUSSIES!

    AT was right Bush hates Americans!

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  14. Interesting that they saved this stuff for 10 yrs.
    He must have ticked someone off or another team’s staff went looking for dirt.

    I don’t watch the NFL any more anyway but it’s not right that people get away with ruining lives over things that happened 10 yrs ago. unless it’s murder or something as serious.

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  15. super toe
    OCTOBER 12, 2021 AT 2:07 PM
    “Soon only pussies and faggots will be the only ones left watching the NFL.”

    And playing in it.

    Emphasis on “playing”.

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  19. Liberal white women can be super controlling thanks to feminism. Defining white men’s masculinity as toxic is a leftist concept. A white liberal woman consider black men exotic pets and chonic victims of “toxic” white men. Truth is all liberals/leftists are toxic.

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  21. Notice that he did not retract his remarks…. as in “I was young and stupid at the time.. or “This is not who I am today”… some such rot.

    Gruden said that he did not want to hurt anyone and he didn’t. After all, sticks and stones…

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  22. If you have never written an email to a family member or friend that you would not want made public then you are a better person than I am. But I offended no one to their face just discussed event happening.

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