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    Jon Gruden Just Put It in Writing

    The deposed Raiders coach expressed bigoted attitudes that are all too common in the NFL.
    by Jemele Hill Oct 13, 2021 4 minutes
    Source: Ethan Miller / Getty

    Updated at 12:04 p.m. ET on October 13, 2021

    Jon Gruden’s resignation as head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders is just the beginning of a long-overdue reckoning for the NFL, and it underscores the basic problem: The NFL is full of Jon Grudens.

    Gruden made racist, homophobic, and misogynistic comments in emails for nearly a decade, but he was forced out only when some of those reprehensible statements became public. Last week, that in a 2011 email to the former Washington Football Team general manager Bruce Allen, Gruden referred to DeMaurice Smith, the executive director of the NFL Players Association, as “Dumboriss Smith” and said that Smith, who is Black, had lips the

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