Raiders coach Jon Gruden Resigns over email scandal
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Via: john-russell • 3 years ago • 53 commentsBy: Ryan Dunleavy (New York Post)
Jon Gruden resigned as Las Vegas Raiders head coach after an explosive report in the New York Times revealed he used homophobic and misogynistic language in emails over a seven-year period.
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Only a few days after a first email leak revealed Gruden using racist language, more emails were uncovered showing Gruden mocked the drafting of the first openly gay player in NFL history, criticized the emergence of women in the NFL as officials and called for the dismissal of players protesting the playing of the national anthem, according to the Times.
NFL Network was first to report that Gruden, 58, informed the Raiders of his plans to step down. Gruden signed a 10-year, $100 million contract with the Raiders in 2018. Las Vegas is currently 3-2 and in third place in the AFC West.
Tough guy karma.
AP source: Gruden out as Raiders coach over offensive emails
By JOSH DUBOW1-2 minutes 10/11/2021
Jon Gruden is out as coach of the Las Vegas Raiders after emails he sent before being hired in 2018 contained racist, homophobic and misogynistic comments.
A person familiar with the decision said Gruden is stepping down after The New York Times reported that Gruden frequently used misogynistic and homophobic language directed at Commissioner Roger Goodell and others in the NFL.
It was a rapid downfall for Gruden, who is in the fourth year of a 10-year, $100 million contract he signed with the Raiders in 2018. It started on Friday when the Wall Street Journal reported that Gruden used a racist term to describe NFL union chief DeMaurice Smith in a 2011 email to former Washington executive Bruce Allen.
The emails were discovered in a workplace misconduct investigation into the Washington Football Team but ended up costing Gruden his job.
He may be saying that he resigned but I doubt it. Mark Davis had no choice but to fire him and I suspect that is exactly what happened.
No loss, got rid of a bigot and not that great of a coach. Toss the trash out and move forward.
I liked Gruden as an announcer, but he's always seemed to have a screw loose.
I was a Raider fan from AFL days, through thick and thin, winning and losing, from Lamonica, Blanda, Stabler, Madden, Al Davis and all those guys. Oakland to LA then back to that dump and Las Vegas, but I think I am done
I used to also like the Redskins because they were the local team, but said the hell with them when they changed the name.
I will watch a few games when I have little else to do and watch Tom Brady until he retires but I can't put up with the BS
“,,,,I can't put up with the BS.”
i’m with ya. When, or if, they stop with all the social justice bs and just get back to playing football is when i’ll start watching again, until then, no.
You think that an announcer for the major sports network in the country (Gruden worked for ESPN at the time) should be able to call the commissioner of the NFL homophobic slurs in work emails and have there be no repercussions? LOL, you are dreaming.
Well now how about if he was criticizing Donald Trump for simulating grabbing "ass" remarks in emails? Would you want him to resign? Yeah, uh-huh. GOTCHA!
Haters of social justice are loud and clear 'dog-whistlng' across the world wide web to other ears that they are some conservatives 'dyed in the wool".
Where did i say that? LOL, you are dreaming.
As usual, you ain’t got shit.
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We all missed speak like a pirate day.
Haters got to hate. I'm just calling it like it is. You don't hate social justice do you?
And I'm still pissed about it. Aaarrrgggggh.
Avast ye matey!
I would really love to know how you got away with this statement
Don't make me give you the answer.
there is nothing wrong with the statement.
I think this was done to get rid of Gruden and pressure will be put on Mark Davis to hire Bellamy as coach
They could call Gruden "Chucky" after a demon doll with blond hair but he gets pushed out for saying rubber lips? what a double standard!
I dont think he was pushed out for one email. They found quite a few more.
and the emails were obviously stolen / hacked and not meant for public distribution.
So much for privacy rights.
NYT strikes again.
Now, I hope all of what they found will come out. Especially anything on Goodell
I hope they all come out then we can see want a racist asshole he was.
An asshole that is common in a high testosterone environment.
Jerry Jones said an awful lot without making any comment, lol.
Chucky has a friend in Dallas.
My apologies @8 is a quote from a New York Times article. "My bad." None of that is me.
NFLPA head DeMaurice Smith is an embracement to anyone who ever paid Union dues and I don't care what Gruden called him, it was well deserved.
So you're good with racial slurs, good to know.
It is OK to call Trump "orangeman" and that is just as much a racial slur as saying Smith has big lips. People need to grow thicker skin
In what way? trmp chose his skin color
If you can't understand the difference between a racist trope like ''rubberlips'' and the Orangeman there is nothing that I can do to explain it to you. You might want to try walking up to a blackman and tell him he was rubber lips.
You can't be serious. Trump uses a bronzer that is way too orange for his natural skin tone. The fact that he resembles a carrot with a comb-over has nothing to do with race. Obama was teased about his ears, and that had nothing to do with his race. Nixon was teased about the size of his forehead, and that had nothing to do with race. Bob Hope was teased about his ski slope nose. Again, it had nothing to do with race.
Regarding 'rubber lips' - I can only assume that the person about whom Gruden was speaking, is black. Given the fact that many blacks are blessed with full lips, is what makes Gruden's comment racist. If Gruden had been referring to Mick Jagger as having rubber lips, we wouldn't be having this conversation, because the size of Mick Jagger's lips have nothing to do with his race.
And there is something else. I used to think in a manner similar to yours. For example, I considered the name Washington Redskins as a kind of honor shout-out to Native Americans. For years, my family had a summer cabin on Little Squaw Creek in Colorado. On the other side of the mountain from our cabin was Big Squaw Creek. It never entered my mind that the term 'squaw' was a slur. I have only happy memories of spending summers at Little Squaw, so how could it possibly be a slur to Native American Women? I was wrong. In fact, I wasn't wrong just a little, I was wrong huge. I'm 1/4 Cherokee, but not having been raised in a manner consistent with my heritage, I just didn't understand, and I'm embarrassed that it took me 30 years to understand. The person who helped me understand, is Kavika. At first, he didn't have a lot of patience with my foolishness. I simply refused to accept that certain terms were culturally offensive, and that was only because I didn't view them that way. But Kavika did, and that should have been enough of a reason to adjust my vocabulary.
I know you are not going to change your mind based on what I've said. But I hope you at least think about it.
Very well said, Sister.
It would be like that scene in Die Hard With A Vengeance when McClain had to wear a sandwich board with I HATE (N word) in Harlem. But he would not have Samuel Jackson to save his ass.
NFL is full of convicted criminals and people who would be in jail or on the backend of a trash truck if they were not good with an oddly shaped ball and that's OK but if they find out you called somebody rubber lips 10 years ago you are chased out.
But some think players who disrespect the country, where players make millions, are the good ones.
This comment is devoid of logic. Kneeling during the national anthem as a protest gesture is not "disrespecting the country" . Giving the finger during the national anthem would be disrespecting the country.
Saying , by name, that a person of African American descent,( who has the somewhat typical large lips)
has lips that look like automobile tires , is a recognizable racial slur.
Charger, subtlety? Gruden said: ""Dumboriss Smith has lips the size of michellin tires." Of course he was talking about "big lips" and its a slur.
Thus, Gruden is deploying some "rubber-lipping" on his own behalf. Because he is busted and $100M dollar pay days are not easy to resign and leave in the corporation's bank.
But let's be clear. Gruden said more than racial overtones. There were other emails and overtones
Since you are into giving out 'mulligans' to your picks-okay.
”I never meant to hurt anyone when I openly disparaged them” … hmmm.
Not excusing his actions or the ramifications from it, but who decides why one person should be pushed out into the light for such transgressions and another person should be ignored?
None of these actions should be ignored. They should all be held to the standard the NFL is preaching it stands for.
I understand, and I agree. But what about other areas than just the NFL? Or sports in any area? We have all seen people both living and dead who have been targeted because of their racist speech but have seen others ignored for the same issue. Why do some seem to get a pass while others do not? That's the question I was trying to ask.
I don't think we'll ever have a satisfying answer to that. As we have all seen, living up to one's ideals isn't an easy task. It's easier to make excuses about why we don't. That doesn't mean we shouldn't hold others accountable or stop trying to be better ourselves.
It depends on who or what is doing the pushing, if he/she/them/it are pushing (at all), and if this push is sufficient enough.
I don't understand your reply. Using this seed as an example, Gruden is responsible for his emails. But someone leaked those to the public. Who decided that the public should see them and who (ie, the public again) decided that Gruden should be held responsible? There are plenty of other people in the world, both living and dead, who have spouted racist or sexist words in the past. Some of them are held accountable but others are not. Who decides which should be held accountable and which should not be?
But I just don't understand who you mean by
People in position of power, influence, authority, office, viewed the emails after someone who was party to the conversations made them aware of their presence (on the NFL's server or kept in stasis on his/her/their own email 'box.')
We do not need to try to be 'lawyerly' about who is qualified to see and share what with the public, because our role is to comment on what has occurred. Leaving the "how-comes" and 'what-fors' and "injured parties" for trial or civil attorneys.
Easy enough. Someone/something happens and an issue comes up for discussion, further discussion, and when necessary, resolution. If nobody brings it up: it dies. If somebody brings the issue forward: it survives. If the issue persists: It thrives.
Fate.
The person/s standing behind doing the 'pushing'!
Gruden didn't send those offensive emails.
The man does have a nice ass though. The problem is that it spread and now he is just all ass.
Somebody in the NFL had it in for Gruden and to get him they opened Pandora's box and it is going to have a lot of unintended consequences.
The NFL had this information and sat on it.
Report: NFL Possessed Bombshell Jon Gruden Emails for Months and Didn't Act
As more and more details emerge about how and why the bombshell emails that led to former Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon Gruden resigning on Monday night before he could be fired, the NFL continues to look worse and worse.
© Sean M. Haffey/Getty NFL commissioner Roger Goodell looks on before the Las Vegas Raiders playPer a new report from The Wall Street Journal , the league had possession of Gruden’s inflammatory emails, which contained racist, sexist and homophobic content and also mocked NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, for months before they began to leak out over the weekend.
The NFL uncovered Gruden’s emails, which were mostly with former Washington Football Team executive Bruce Allen and were sent long before Gruden was hired by the Raiders, over the summer while investigating the D.C.-based franchise and owner Daniel Snyder for workplace misconduct . The offensive emails between Gruden and Allen were part of a trove of more than 650,000 that the league received in June as the investigation into the Washington Football Team was wrapping up.
The league allegedly planned to present the findings of its investigation into the emails to the Raiders at a meeting that had not yet been scheduled at the time the contents of the crude correspondence started to leak out. Those leaks, which the NFL is on the record claiming it had nothing to do with, led to Gruden being out of football without that meeting ever having to take place. It also led to the NFL not having to publicly admit (by holding a meeting presenting its findings from the email investigation) that it had known about Gruden’s offensive views and conduct for months without doing anything about it and allowing him to continue to coach football games. (Which he did on Sunday even after he’d been revealed to be a racist via a leaked email on Friday.)
With Gruden gone and the investigation into his chats with Allen now a moot point, no other current team or NFL employees are under investigation by the league related to the trove of 650,000 emails, people familiar with the matter told The Journal. And, for now, the league said it has no “current plans” to release all the WFT materials.
Gruden is out. Snyder, somehow, is safe. And the NFL gets to keep perpetuating the image it stands against racism, sexism and homophobia even though it did nothing to combat those issues for months when presented with the chance.
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