It is not yet clear if Gruden will face disciplinary action from the NFL or Raiders
Raiders coach Jon Gruden. Photo: Chris Unger/Getty Images Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden made a racist comment in a 2011 email while referring to NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith, who is black, the Wall Street Journal revealed on Friday. Gruden, then an ESPN analyst, sent the email to Bruce Allen, the then president of the franchise now known as the Washington Football Team.
Gruden told the Journal he didn’t remember writing the email, but apologized for the language he used. “I’m really sorry,” Gruden said, adding that he was “upset” over the direction labor negotiations were headed at the time. He claimed that he sometimes uses the term “rubber lips” to refer to people who he thinks are lying, but that he went “too far” and “used a horrible way of explaining it.”
Smith told the Journal that “This is not the first racist comment that I’ve heard and it probably will not be the last.” It is not yet clear if Gruden will face disciplinary action over the email, which both the NFL and Raiders publicly rebuked on Friday.
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