Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib came out as gay in June and is the first openly gay player to appear in an NFL game. The paper also said Gruden criticized Goodell and the NFL 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. The newspaper said Gruden also mocked an article in about players calling on Goodell to support their efforts promoting racial equality and criminal justice reform.
Gruden and Allen have a long relationship, having worked together in Oakland and Tampa Bay. The emails between the two and other men included photos of women wearing only bikini bottoms, including one photo of two Washington team cheerleaders. Gruden also criticized President Barack Obama during his re-election campaign in , and then-vice president Joe Biden. Smith said earlier Monday that he appreciates that Gruden reached out to him following the initial report, but that the email is evidence that the fight against racism is ongoing.
We condemn the statement and regret any harm that its publication may inflict on Mr. Smith or anyone else. Josh Krulewitz, a spokesperson for ESPN, issued the following statement: "The comments are clearly repugnant under any circumstance. What the emails said. At the time, Gruden was 39 and then, the youngest coach to win the Super Bowl.
He left the Bucs in and was inducted into the team's ring of honor in , but the organization said Tuesday he has been removed from membership because "his actions go against our core values as an organization.
In another, he called Michael Sam a "queer" after the player was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in , and Gruden said the league should not have pressured the team's then coach to draft Sam, the Times reported. Sam publicly revealed he was gay ahead of the draft ; he ultimately never played a regular-season game in the league. Former Rams head coach Jeff Fisher tweeted that the team drafted Sam based on his college defensive production and pass-rushing skills and that the NFL never encouraged or discouraged him regarding draft prospects.
During the past few months, senior NFL executives reviewed the contents of more than , emails — including the ones Gruden sent — and last week those executives presented a summary to commissioner Roger Goodell and the Raiders.
Gruden sent those emails before he returned to coaching, and some were at least a decade old. Still, they rose to the level of red alert. How much more is out there? What else will be revealed?
I was a Raiders beat writer at the time and felt like I got to know Gruden. Jon Gruden resigned as Raiders coach on Monday, just three days after the Wall Street Journal reported he was under investigation for using a racial trope in a email and just an hour after The New York Times revealed that other Gruden emails over a span of eight years included misogynistic, homophobic and sexist language.
The former Super Bowl champion was not even four full seasons into the year contract he signed with Las Vegas back in How in the world did we get here?
Here's a birds-eye-view timeline of Gruden's abrupt return -- and departure from -- the NFL :. Gruden spent 11 years as a head coach between the Raiders and Buccaneers before nestling into post-coaching life, most famously as a color commentator on ESPN's "Monday Night Football. Before setting foot on the sidelines for a real game in his second stint with the Raiders, Gruden signed off on the departure of arguably the team's best player in Mack, who couldn't strike a long-term deal with the club.
Out went his top pass rusher, along with two draft picks, and in came a package of four picks.
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