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Jon Gruden resigns as Raiders coach after more emails surface
A couple weeks ago, Jon Gruden was finally paying off for the Las Vegas Raiders. His team was 3-0. That 10-year, $100 million contract didn't seem so bad.
Nobody could have ever guessed that two weeks later, Gruden would be done as Raiders head coach because of emails spanning 10 years revealed ugly racist, anti-gay and misogynistic comments.
On Monday night, less than an hour after a New York Times report that Gruden had sent emails that contained disturbing comments, Gruden resigned.
In a statement, Gruden said:
“I have resigned as Head Coach of the Las Vegas Raiders. I love the Raiders and do not want to be a distraction. Thank you to all the players, coaches, staff, and fans of Raider Nation. I’m sorry, I never meant to hurt anyone.”
In a statement of his own, Vegas owner Mark Davis said he accepted Gruden's resignation.
Raiders assistant Rich Bisaccia will be the interim head coach, according to ESPN reporter Suzy Kolber.
The New York Times story came after last week's revelation that Gruden had sent an email containing racist comments regarding NFLPA head DeMaurice Smith.
Jon Gruden's emails leaked
Last week, as part of an investigation into the misogynistic culture of the Washington Football Team, an email Gruden sent to then-Washington team president Bruce Allen in 2011 was leaked. In it, Gruden said of NFLPA head DeMaurice Smith: "Dumboriss Smith has lips the size of michellin [sic] tires.”
Gruden said he wasn't racist. But then on Monday, The New York Times reported that other emails Gruden sent, which were also unearthed as part of the WFT investigation, said Gruden used anti-gay slurs. He referred to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell as a "fa****t" and a "clueless anti football p****y." Gruden said in an email that Goodell shouldn't have pressured then-St. Louis Rams coach Jeff Fisher to draft "queers," a reference to Michael Sam. Sam was the first openly gay player drafted by the NFL in 2014.
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