Jon Gruden Loses Again. He Will Fail Up Again, Too

Oakland, Los Angeles, Las Vegas head football coach Jon Gruden resigned Sunday from his job after emails surfaced (were leaked by the NFL home office, let’s be clear) showing him to be who many Black players have long said he is: a pompous, racist, self-important bigot.

Those players were ridiculed, dismissed, called malcontents and locker room cancers by the sports media and team representatives. In other words, the league refused for years of to listen to the people who worked closest with Gruden — his own players.

The emails John Gruden sent to his longtime friend and peer, and NFL executive, Bruce Allen, displayed all the “intelligence” coach Gruden is known for by Black players, but which has long been ignored by the NFL hierarchy and the white male pundits who cover the NFL for CBS, NBC, ABC, and ESPN, and of course by the NFL’s own network.

Jon Gruden wasn’t fired or asked to resign when the first email was leaked. In that email he referred to player’s rep DeMaurice F. Smith’s lips with a racist insult. Racism rarely results in consequences in America or the NFL, despite racists believing they are always held accountable even though there’s 400 years of history proving them wrong, so Jon got a temporary pass that would only last a few hours.