Posted on 10/08/2021 3:05:12 PM PDT by White Lives Matter
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Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon Gruden used a racist remark to describe the head of the National Football League Players Association, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
Gruden used racist, anti-Black imagery to describe NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith in an email sent to a team executive on July 21, 2011.
The NFL is reviewing Gruden’s status with the Raiders for potential discipline, a source familiar with the matter told the Journal.
Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon Gruden used racist language to describe the head of the National Football League Players Association, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
Gruden used anti-Black imagery to describe NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith in an email sent to a team executive on July 21, 2011, according to the Journal.
“Dumboriss Smith has lips the size of michellin tires,” Gruden wrote in the email to Bruce Allen, the former president of the franchise now known as the Washington Football Team, the Journal reported.
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Players call each other joggers all the time.
So tell us...what is the rule and enforcement?
Blah blah blah
Are there any non-Felons in the League?
Rick Barry had his NBA broadcast career ruined for a comment relatively innocent compared to this.
Whatever. There was a time when I enjoyed football. That time has passed.
Pretty soon there’ll be some tran-sexual pronoun dependent coach and then woke culture will be happy.
Looks to me like he’s got some pretty big ass lips.
Racism or pretty spot on observation? Suggs fits that bill too.
They’re upset he didn’t use Goodyear.
He’s an idiot and his boss is an idiot.
You might be on to something there!
5 paragraphs of nonsense to get to the point.
This is so tiresome. Poor sap is toast.
Remember Jimmy the Greek?
At least he didn't call him boy.
Reminds me: did the white offender get fired after calling that gentleman boy a couple of weeks ago?
It struck me at the time as being anti-black, antebellum imagery.
Yeah Jimmy The Greek: ‘Look at that Jungle B**ny Go!’ Never heard another word from Jimmy.
I was also thinking of Jimmy the Greek. Didn’t he talk about how slaveowners would… Wait, never mind…
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