Posted on 10/08/2021 3:37:21 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A report that Jon Gruden used a racist comment about NFL Players Association leader DeMaurice Smith in an email 10 years ago drew a strong and quick rebuke Friday from the NFL.
A Wall Street Journal story noted that Gruden, then working for ESPN and now coach of the Las Vegas Raiders, referred in a racist way to Smith’s facial features.
“The email from Jon Gruden denigrating DeMaurice Smith is appalling, abhorrent and wholly contrary to the NFL’s values,” NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said. “We condemn the statement and regret any harm that its publication may inflict on Mr. Smith or anyone else.”
The league is looking into the matter and a person familiar with that probe told The Associated Press that disciplinary action is possible for Gruden. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because details of any league probe are not made public.
“Dumboriss Smith has lips the size of michellin tires,” Gruden wrote in the email reviewed by the newspaper.
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Demaurice Smith should have responded “That’s mighty white of you” and that be the end of it.
Oh my, I’m getting the vapors!
This is the EFL - Embarrassing FL!
If Gruden is racist, why would he choose a job where 70% of “his employees” are black?
Libtards love probes. 😒
But of course it would be perfectly ok to say that Mick Jagger has some big-ass lips.
When you put it in Gruden voice,it's actually pretty funny. I have heard much worse from black on black insults but Honkies don't get a pass.
Bu Bye Jon Gruden. You’ve been canceled.
So, if an NFL staffer made a comment about Paul Finebaum’s ears, would that also be “racist”?
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No one cared when it was Hunter Biden.
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These are man games. Suck it up.
If mouths are off limits, I suppose we can’t make fun of Webb Hubbell’s mouth any more either?? Sheesh. Libs are no fun!!
What with all of the serious bullshit going on in our country for the past 9 f**king months, some comment by a football coach really is at the bottom of my list of very real concerns.
Enough of this dimwitted nonsense!!!!
I can assure you that the ONLY color that Gruden cares about is GREEN. And NO, I am not referring to the environmental whackos “green”, either.
There ought to be a statute of limitations on these things.
No, you’d be labeled an anti-Semite since he’s a Jew.
Paging Howard Cosell, paging Howard Cosell
Does anyone in this country even know what real racism is?
Real racism is denigrating someone because of his race. It is not, I repeat, it is not the criticism of, or uncomplimentary remark about, a person who happens to be another race.
If mouths are off limits, I suppose we can’t make fun of Webb Hubbell’s mouth any more either?? Sheesh. Libs are no fun!!
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Rules for radicals: can’t say nothing about dem lips
Well. Are his lips as big as Michelin tires?
“Dumboriss Smith has lips the size of michellin tires,”
So? Lots of Hollywood actresses in the past were getting lip implants to make their lips pooch out more.
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