Jon Gruden said DeMaurice Smith's lips looked like Michelin tires :mjpls:

[Karume]

When the vaunted N.F.L. coach Jon Gruden was confronted with a racist email he had sent in 2011 to insult the head of the players’ union, he said he went too far but didn’t have “a blade of racism” in him.

But league officials as part of a separate workplace misconduct investigation that did not directly involve him have found that Gruden, now the coach of the Las Vegas Raiders, casually and frequently unleashed misogynistic and homophobic language over several years to denigrate people around the game and to mock some of the league’s momentous changes.

He denounced the emergence of women as referees, the drafting of a gay player and the tolerance of players protesting during the playing of the national anthem, according to emails reviewed by The New York Times.

Gruden’s messages were sent to Bruce Allen, the former president of the Washington Football Team, and others, while he was working for ESPN as a color analyst during “Monday Night Football,” the sports network’s weekly prime-time telecast of N.F.L. games. In the emails, Gruden called the league’s commissioner, Roger Goodell, a “fakkit” and a “clueless anti football p*ssy” and said that Goodell should not have pressured Jeff Fisher, then the coach of the Rams, to draft “queers,” a reference to Michael Sam, a gay player chosen by the team in 2014.

In numerous emails during a seven-year period ending in early 2018, Gruden criticized Goodell and the league for trying to reduce concussions and said that Eric Reid, a player who had demonstrated during the playing of the national anthem, should be fired. In several instances, Gruden used a homophobic slur to refer to Goodell and offensive language to describe some N.F.L. owners, coaches and journalists who cover the league.

Gruden, Allen, the N.F.L., and the Raiders did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Although not with a team at the time, Gruden was still influential in the league and highly coveted as a coach. He had won a Super Bowl with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers following the 2002 season. And in 2018, he was hired for his second stint as the head coach of the Raiders franchise, which includes defensive lineman Carl Nassib, the first active N.F.L. player to publicly declare that he is gay.

The league said last week that it shared emails with the Raiders in which Gruden made derogatory comments.

Gruden told ESPN on Sunday that the league was reviewing emails in which he criticized Goodell, and explained that he had been upset about team owners’ lockout of the players in 2011, when some of the emails were written. Gruden said in that interview that had used an expletive to refer to Goodell and that he did so because he disapproved of Goodell’s emphasis on safety, which he believed was scaring parents into steering their sons away from football.

But Gruden’s behavior was not limited to 2011. Gruden exchanged emails with Allen and other men that included photos of women wearing only bikini bottoms, including one photo of two Washington team cheerleaders.


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hmm, this is way more than I was aware of.

 

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[Max.]

 

[King Sun]

If u work for a company or even if you're self employed and your racist and homophobic posts became public... You'd be shook of losing your job and livelihood.

I didn't like him calling ole boy dumb. That was the most offensive. But if he called Goodell dumb too, I'd let it slide. You have to be damn near a klansman for me to be on board with u losing your job.

 

[King Sun]

 

[gtj1982]

When the vaunted N.F.L. coach Jon Gruden was confronted with a racist email he had sent in 2011 to insult the head of the players’ union, he said he went too far but didn’t have “a blade of racism” in him.

But league officials as part of a separate workplace misconduct investigation that did not directly involve him have found that Gruden, now the coach of the Las Vegas Raiders, casually and frequently unleashed misogynistic and homophobic language over several years to denigrate people around the game and to mock some of the league’s momentous changes.

He denounced the emergence of women as referees, the drafting of a gay player and the tolerance of players protesting during the playing of the national anthem, according to emails reviewed by The New York Times.

Gruden’s messages were sent to Bruce Allen, the former president of the Washington Football Team, and others, while he was working for ESPN as a color analyst during “Monday Night Football,” the sports network’s weekly prime-time telecast of N.F.L. games. In the emails, Gruden called the league’s commissioner, Roger Goodell, a “fakkit” and a “clueless anti football p*ssy” and said that Goodell should not have pressured Jeff Fisher, then the coach of the Rams, to draft “queers,” a reference to Michael Sam, a gay player chosen by the team in 2014.

In numerous emails during a seven-year period ending in early 2018, Gruden criticized Goodell and the league for trying to reduce concussions and said that Eric Reid, a player who had demonstrated during the playing of the national anthem, should be fired. In several instances, Gruden used a homophobic slur to refer to Goodell and offensive language to describe some N.F.L. owners, coaches and journalists who cover the league.

Gruden, Allen, the N.F.L., and the Raiders did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Although not with a team at the time, Gruden was still influential in the league and highly coveted as a coach. He had won a Super Bowl with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers following the 2002 season. And in 2018, he was hired for his second stint as the head coach of the Raiders franchise, which includes defensive lineman Carl Nassib, the first active N.F.L. player to publicly declare that he is gay.

The league said last week that it shared emails with the Raiders in which Gruden made derogatory comments.

Gruden told ESPN on Sunday that the league was reviewing emails in which he criticized Goodell, and explained that he had been upset about team owners’ lockout of the players in 2011, when some of the emails were written. Gruden said in that interview that had used an expletive to refer to Goodell and that he did so because he disapproved of Goodell’s emphasis on safety, which he believed was scaring parents into steering their sons away from football.

But Gruden’s behavior was not limited to 2011. Gruden exchanged emails with Allen and other men that included photos of women wearing only bikini bottoms, including one photo of two Washington team cheerleaders.


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Sounds like you typical middle aged white Republican man. But but trust us he not racist like all the others because he was nice to me on the football field.

 

[OnFleekTing]

NYT put in work and said where there's smoke there's fire
they found him coming for the gays and the women
He was never gonna survive that
It was questionable whether he could survive the racism

 

[Tony D'Amato]

I want everyone enjoying this to have their private convos exposed.

 

[calh45]

NYT put in work and said where there's smoke there's fire
they found him coming for the gays and the women
He was never gonna survive that
It was questionable whether he could survive the racism

It's wild how this is low key proving Chappelle special right. He could say low key to overt racist shyt about D. Smith and he could get away with apologizing, but saying anything about gay/women aka a designation that could apply to other white folks and you're done.

 

[Young Fab]

No, he's white.

Hmm, right

 

[The_Sheff]

NYT put in work and said where there's smoke there's fire
they found him coming for the gays and the women
He was never gonna survive that
It was questionable whether he could survive the racism

Whatever the NYT had, the NFL served to them on a silver platter. There is most likely a lot more shyt in there and I can guarantee you other NFL personel are saying wild shyt in emails too but unless the NFL wants it out you won't see it.

 

[Phantum]

You got Uncle Tony and Mike my daddy is white tirico saying move on. Only race that does this. Jews dont fukk around with anything that smells anti Semitic. But there are always kneegrows out there waiting to cape

We got c00ns right here on this site defending it or saying it's not an issue.

 

[concise]

It's wild how this is low key proving Chappelle special right. He could say low key to overt racist shyt about D. Smith and he could get away with apologizing, but saying anything about gay/women aka a designation that could apply to other white folks and you're done.

It's a shame how it has taken Dave Chappelle for a lot of people to realize this when many of us have been saying the same exact thing on this website for years.

 

[FreddyCalhoun]

He called him stupid and basically said he got nikka lips. bu bu bu I'm not offended massa not racist.

Not saying it wasn't racist. I just don't have the energy to put into "feelings" racism anymore. I don't walk around thinking rich dudes are PC and don't say racist ish all the time. I care about the tangible road block and systemic blockades that we continue to ignore because someone said the "n-word".

We are losing sight of what really matters. Say what you want in private, and get fried if you get caught, but I live in a state that just abolished any history outside of the white race legally. AND THAT SCARES ME. But it gets lost in the "he said the n-word" rhetoric.

 

[UNCLE JAM]

His bullshyt emails went all the way to 2018...smh.

"But the Times report makes clear that he sent hundreds of similar emails, stretching from 2010 until he was hired by the Raiders in 2018. In them, he called commissioner Roger Goodell a “fakkit” and a “clueless anti football p*ssy.” He denigrated the NFL’s female referees, said that players who kneeled during the national anthem to demand social justice should be kicked out of the league, and shared topless photos of NFL cheerleaders. He couldn’t spin this by claiming that some of the worst slurs in existence were actually folksy expressions you’d never heard of, or that the views he expressed weren’t accurate reflections of his character. This is who he is.
But this isn’t just about Gruden’s emails or words. It’s what they indicate about the culture he fostered. Despite coaching a diverse team, Gruden repeatedly expressed that he doesn’t believe Black people, gay people, and women are qualified for jobs in the NFL. That’s not just an indictment of Gruden; it’s an indictment of everyone who enabled him, and a league that limits opportunities for those who don’t look like him.

Take Gruden’s comments about Smith, which insulted both his appearance and his intelligence. Now square them with Gruden’s decision-making over his 15 years as an NFL head coach. Between his tenures with the Raiders and Buccaneers, he has given snaps to only one Black quarterback: Shaun King, who was already on the Tampa Bay roster when Gruden was hired in 2002. None of Gruden’s past eight offensive or defensive coordinators have been Black. His only Black coordinator was Willie Shaw, who worked as the Raiders DC in 1998 and 1999. When Shaw was abruptly fired in 1999 after helping the Raiders go from 28th to 16th in points allowed in two seasons, Gruden and Allen tried to spin it as allowing Shaw to pursue head-coaching opportunities. Shaw never became a head coach; the Raiders promoted a white assistant, Chuck Bresnahan, to replace him."


This Is Who Jon Gruden Always Was