Jon Gruden dismissed as Raiders head coach
October 11th, 2021 at 9:11 PM ^
If you're wondering why, here's why...
Raiders Coach’s Emails Included Homophobic and Misogynistic Comments https://nyti.ms/3lv6707
October 11th, 2021 at 9:31 PM ^
He seems like a pleasant individual ?
October 11th, 2021 at 9:51 PM ^
So... Gruden is a racist, misogynist and homophobe. When does Snyder lose the team for pimping out his cheerleaders tho? Everyone seems to be glossing over that tidbit in these emails lol...
October 12th, 2021 at 7:55 AM ^
Imagine mismanaging your professional life so badly that you get fired by this doofus.
October 12th, 2021 at 8:12 AM ^
imagine mismanaging your parenting so badly that you had a kid like that, and i'm not even referencing the ginger issue.
October 12th, 2021 at 10:59 AM ^
Dude doesn’t care, which I respect. F others… you own a football team
October 11th, 2021 at 9:13 PM ^
Holy shit
October 11th, 2021 at 9:13 PM ^
Gruden is an asshat
October 11th, 2021 at 9:23 PM ^
....and Urban is an assman. Lot of overtaking ass going on by NFL coaches.
October 11th, 2021 at 11:20 PM ^
East German Judge,
I can’t remember the last comment you made that I liked, but that one got an LOL out of me.
October 12th, 2021 at 8:38 AM ^
And all these years, I'd thought that Cosmo Kramer was the ASSMAN.
October 12th, 2021 at 7:38 AM ^
Seems like it, going from his private emails. And he still should never have been fired or resigned.
October 11th, 2021 at 9:14 PM ^
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the NFL harbors more than one person with Mr. Gruden's mindset.
October 11th, 2021 at 9:15 PM ^
Certainly given how comfortable he was just typing all those things in emails... Who was on the receiving end of said messages?
October 11th, 2021 at 9:23 PM ^
Well, at the very least, former WFT GM Bruce Allen, who of course has been long since fired for his own moral turpitude.
October 11th, 2021 at 9:46 PM ^
George Allen Jr, his brother, the ex-governor, is, as a friend once put it, a "connoisseur of racism" in response to his infamous remark to a reporter.
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/beyond-macaca-photograph-haunts-george-allen/
October 11th, 2021 at 11:14 PM ^
These email chains also included, at times, the co-founder of Hooters, the guy who ran the Outback bowl, and the founder of a FL restaurant chain called PDQ.
October 12th, 2021 at 10:41 AM ^
Well, that's disturbing. PDQ has good food, I have good memories of the Outback Bowl (circa 1997), and as for Hooters....well....
Why does EVERYTHING have to get ruined by people saying stupid stuff?
October 12th, 2021 at 11:12 AM ^
If you decided to not patronize every business whose owner espoused views you object to, you’d be severely limited in your purchases.
The world is full of individuals who think different things, many of which are objectively bad. I mean, We still buy goods from China and they are ethnically cleansing the Uighers.
That’s not to say there aren’t stands one should take, but you asked the question, why does Everything get ruined? Because people say, and believe, stupid stuff. It’s just the way things are. It can bother you or not bother you. You get to choose. My guess is you pick and choose what bothers you the most at any given time and decide that thing X is ruined.
For me, it’s whether that person acts on those thoughts and beliefs.
As for Jon Gruden, I haven’t seen all the emails, and the link above requires a NYT subscription. That said , I’m sure it’s easily accessible. I’m not going to look because I believe the people here have properly described what he said well enough to know that it’s something awful. If so, then so be it. I’m not going to get worked up about it. By the sound of it, him losing his job seems more than justified.
October 11th, 2021 at 9:37 PM ^
Maybe most are not also stupid enough to put those thoughts in writing.
October 11th, 2021 at 10:36 PM ^
I'm gonna to go out on a limb and say that all people are tribal to some degree. It manifests itself in different ways and some people are better at fighting back against those feelings than others. But people have to deal with that inclination.
October 11th, 2021 at 9:14 PM ^
Good night Chuckie!
October 11th, 2021 at 9:15 PM ^
Wow… that escalated quickly.
October 11th, 2021 at 9:15 PM ^
Made his own bed, he has to lay in it
October 11th, 2021 at 9:16 PM ^
Gruden to Tennessee? /s
October 11th, 2021 at 9:39 PM ^
Oakland's definitely no longer in play
October 11th, 2021 at 10:32 PM ^
Oakland's back in play, for Harbaugh!
October 12th, 2021 at 5:40 AM ^
Gonna go coach the A’s?
October 12th, 2021 at 4:28 AM ^
underrated comment
October 11th, 2021 at 9:17 PM ^
Just getting a post in before it gets locked, don’t mind me.
October 11th, 2021 at 9:54 PM ^
Red-locked?
October 11th, 2021 at 9:25 PM ^
Las Vegas is in play!
/did I do that right???
October 11th, 2021 at 9:26 PM ^
Harbaugh to Vegas, book it, and he's taking Barrett with him.
October 11th, 2021 at 9:37 PM ^
This actually made me lol
October 11th, 2021 at 11:10 PM ^
I lol'd at the idea that it's Harbaugh taking Barrett...we all know MB is who they're really after
October 11th, 2021 at 9:45 PM ^
Forget Harbaugh, Barrett (HC!) to Las Vegas!
October 11th, 2021 at 9:45 PM ^
For Fuck sakes, not Barrett. Anyone but Barrett.
October 11th, 2021 at 10:08 PM ^
I came here specifically seeking this comment. Take your +1.
October 11th, 2021 at 9:25 PM ^
Great this just opens the door for Harbaugh to Raiders after all! Damn you fate!
October 11th, 2021 at 9:26 PM ^
So ridiculous. Really?
October 11th, 2021 at 9:32 PM ^
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
October 11th, 2021 at 9:57 PM ^
I mean, right? Just because he openly derided women, gay people, trans people, black people, and the commissioner of the organization that employs him, why should he be punished? He seems like the kind of man whose opinions should be lauded, not silenced!
But then again, I've been in a coma since 1952, so some things may have changed since I was last up and about.
October 11th, 2021 at 10:11 PM ^
If it is ridiculous to sack someone for denigrating the commissioner of the league in which they are employed, women, the LGBTQ+ community and other people in various media repeatedly through the years, I would certainly hate to know what the minimum standard would be in your world for sacking someone....I mean, is this offense merely a stern reprimand and a loss of privileges to the executive john? Where are we at with this, in your opinion?
October 11th, 2021 at 10:15 PM ^
ibow i’ll lend you my NYT password so you can read the whole article- or wait for the lowlights on another media source and see if you just think its a few words in emails.
October 12th, 2021 at 9:19 AM ^
ibow seems like the type of turd to consider the NYT to be "fake news" so not sure that will do much.
October 12th, 2021 at 10:15 AM ^
All he did was degrade African Americans (2/3 of his active roster), use terms offensive to the LGBTQ+ community (Carl Nassib) and make derogatory comments about women, along with lobbing shots at the league's commissioner. Did he need to make a crack about old white guys for you to be offended enough to think he should have been fired?
October 11th, 2021 at 9:26 PM ^
He can go back to breaking down film of Spider 2 Y Banana.
October 12th, 2021 at 8:31 AM ^
He gonna do this for himself? I mean, who would hire the guy now, except maybe Fox News?