Jon Gruden
Apologizes For Racist Language in 2011 E-mail
… NFL Investigating
10/8/2021 3: 23 PM PT
3: 21 PM PT — The Raiders possess apt launched a press release on Gruden’s electronic mail … calling the contents of it “disturbing and no longer what the Raiders stand for.”
The crew acknowledged it’s for the time being investigating the bellow and is in the strategy of “addressing the topic with Coach Gruden.”
Jon Gruden says he’s sorry for sending an electronic mail lend a hand in 2011 that contained racist language … asserting the comment he wrote modified into “improper.”
The electronic mail, in response to the Wall Road Journal, modified into sent to Washington Football Group exec Bruce Allen … and it contained a adversarial commentary about NFL Gamers Association govt director DeMaurice Smith.
“Dumboriss Smith has lips the size of michellin tires,” Gruden wrote, in response to the affirm.
The electronic mail modified into sent at a time when the NFLPA and the NFL householders were feuding over the league’s collective bargaining settlement.
Gruden, who on the time modified into a broadcaster for ESPN, suggested the WSJ he didn’t “particularly prefer writing the electronic mail” — nonetheless he added he modified into restful “in point of fact sorry” for it.
“I modified into upset,” 58-year-frequent Gruden acknowledged. “I ragged a improper formula of explaining it.”
“I don’t judge he’s tiring. I don’t judge he’s a liar,” Gruden added. “I put no longer need a racial bone in my physique, and I’ve proven that for 58 years.”
Gruden went on to express he had, prior to now, known as liars “rubber lips” and went “too a ways” in his message about Smith to Allen.
What’s attention-grabbing, NFL sources negate TMZ Sports the electronic mail modified into learned by league investigators while they were conducting a probe into allegations of place of work misconduct in the Washington Football Group organization.
They added the league is for the time being investigating the topic.
Smith, in the meantime, suggested the WSJ he modified into upset to learn of the comments Gruden wrote late his lend a hand … explaining, “Racism fancy this comes from the truth that I am on the identical desk as they’re and so that they don’t judge any individual who seems to be fancy me belongs.”
“I am sorry my household has to explore one thing fancy this nonetheless I’d rather they know. I could no longer let it outline me.”
The Raiders — who employed Gruden faraway from ESPN to be their head coach in 2018 — possess yet to comment.
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