Posted on 10/13/2021 9:00:00 AM PDT by Red Badger
Who came off worse in the Jon Gruden controversy – the lightning rod former coach of the Las Vegas Raiders or the egg-faced National Football League? It may come down to a coin toss.
Gruden stepped down Monday after it was revealed, according to The New York Times, that he “used misogynistic and homophobic language for years, a review of his emails shows. He denounced the emergence of women referees, the drafting of a gay player and the tolerance of protests during the national anthem.”
In one email after the then-St. Louis Rams drafted Michael Sam from Missouri, Gruden said they should not have been pressured into drafting “queers.” The ex-coach also called NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell a “faggot” and “clueless anti football pussy.” In light of cancel culture and the power the LGBT movement has to destroy careers over their word choices, those were reckless things to write down.
Gruden also criticized NFL Players Association President DeMaurice Smith for having lips the size of “Michelin tires.” Smith is black and that was another very stupid thing to say. Gruden tried to excuse it away by claiming he uses the term "rubber lips" when he accuses people of lying.
In a 2012 email exchange with former Washington executive Bruce Allen, Gruden referred to current President Joe Biden as a “nervous clueless pussy”. Denouncing a high-profile Democrat is sacrilege to the left-stream media and won’t win many friends.
The NFL isn't getting off by hiding behind Gruden, either.
Clay Travis, co-host of the EIB program with Buck Sexton, tweeted:
“Every rapper the NFL has performing at the Super Bowl has more offensive lyrics than Jon Gruden had in his emails. How does the NFL reconcile the difference in treatment? These are questions all sports media would be asking if they were real journalists..
“I have no problem with rap lyrics, by the way, just like I have no problem with Dave Chappelle’s comedy routines. If you don’t like something, don’t watch or listen yourself. But canceling performers you don’t like is the antithesis of America’s marketplace of ideas.”
Then there’s the NFL’s Deshaun Watson scandal. The Houston quarterback continues to draw from his $177 million salary despite being sidelined by his team. He’s been accused of sexually assaulting 24 women.
Watson is currently eligible to play in the NFL, Travis said. “Yet Jon Gruden was just forced to resign as a coach because of years-old derogatory emails. Actions used to matter more than words. Now it’s the opposite.”
Mike Florio, on NBC’s Pro Football Talk, said: “With the Texans content to pay him to not play and with Watson content to not play and get paid for it, the NFL has no reason to do anything about it. He’s already on paid leave." Just another lovely scar on the NFL's badly battered face.
How bout the Urban Meyer mess, too? The 0-5 Jacksonville coach was caught on camera touching a woman not named Mrs. Urban Meyer below the waist. His team is concerned about the incident, but the NFL is not. He previously resigned in disgrace from his coaching job at Ohio State for sitting in confidence of the knowledge that one of his assistant coaches had abused his wife. But he found a home in the NFL, along with so many other scoundrels.
It’s just another day, another shameful day for the NFL. Heads or tails on that coin toss?
Ping...............................
Question: Who pulled the trigger? They had to have had access to his 10 year old e-mails to pull it off. Can't be that many people.
Never “step down”. Make them fire you.
Goodel really is a pussy. He did not have the testosterone to face Gruden man to man. Instead he purposely leaked Gruden’s e mails to the woke New York Times to get him “cancelled”. Hopefully Gruden was smart enough not to truly resign but to arrange a settlement where the majority of the $60 million still owed him is paid to him by the bizarre Raiders owner Mark Davis. The people still love football but many can’t stand the people who run it or the media that covers it.
IIRC, they were ‘discovered’ during an investigation of the Washington Redskins staff that did not involve Gruden. He was communicating with someone he was friends with on their staff via email and they were part of a bigger batch that was being looked at and someone leaked their ‘find’ to the NY Times and Wall Street Journal.......................
Dr. Dre is performing at the next Super Bowl. You know, the guy that wrote the “F Da Police” song.
If it were not for double standards, the NFL would have no standards at all!
Color me shocked! (/sarc)
While it may be a bit dangerous to one’s career to say certain things in this day and age, there is nothing wrong with being opposed to the forced hiring of women or homosexuals based solely on their sex or sexual preferences, kneeling during the anthem, etc..
The author’s apparent solution? Police one’s own speech so as to not offend the easily offended. That is the exact opposite of what’s truly needed. What we really need are more people to stand up and say, “Enough!” Never apologize! Because the easily offended will never forgive, and they will keep lowering the bar because being continually aggrieved is how they get power.
I hear this coach actually sent topless pics of women, too! As Mark Stein wrote in a recent article, we live in a strange time of sexualized libertinism. The on,y way it will stop is if people refuse to submit.
Mark Davis should be investigated for that haircut.
My bad…. Mark wrote we live in a time of “puritanico-libertinism.”
https://www.steynonline.com/11764/the-stampede-to-stupid
Just another poser selling out to "The Man", just like 'Snoop Dogg' selling wine of all things.
At least he has hair....................😜
Thanks for posting this.
We have several younger relatives recently being graduated from college or in the final stretch.
My wife have tried to warn them about what they post/email, where they post/email and whom they post/email about.
This will be the third article, I have sent to these younger relatives re their postings/emails and potential problems years later with those posts/emails.
The good old new USA...
The sheeple know how to obey the rules our communist rulers demand:
Bow down!... Obey!... Snitch!...
This was a hit job.
Question: Who pulled the trigger?
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the stadium and cheer for Brandon.
How many email? 5? And someone gave the 600,000 emails. He had a target on his back. Meanwhile chomo Joe is still president after raping a woman and perving on children.
He was CANCELLED for no good reason, snowflakes.
He was CANCELLED for telling the truth....................
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