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- The NFL is looking into vulgar emails that Jon Gruden sent in 2011.
- Gruden’s emails include direct shots at Roger Goodell, as well as multiple team owners.
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Jon Gruden is receiving heavy scrutiny over emails he sent back in 2011. The 10-year-old messages were sent during the NFL’s lockout and include harsh words toward multiple people across the league.
Among those caught in the crossfire, Gruden admitted to ESPN’s Chris Mortensen, was Roger Goodell. In one of the emails that was provided by the league to the Las Vegas Raiders last week, Gruden reportedly disparaged the NFL commissioner with a vulgar description.
Here is what he said:
“I was in a bad frame of mind at the time [in 2011], and I called Roger Goodell a [expletive] in one of these emails too,” Gruden told ESPN. “They were keeping players and coaches from doing what they love with a lockout. There also were a lot of things being reported publicly about the safety of the sport that I love. I was on a mission with high school football [in the Tampa, Florida, area] during that time, and there were a lot of parents who were scared about letting their kids play football. It just didn’t sit well with me.”
The expletive of choice was not released by ESPN, but it’s almost more fun that way because now we can use our imagination.
In addition to the direct shots at Goodell, Gruden’s emails also included insults toward multiple owners that were involved in the 2011 labor disagreement. The disagreement ultimately led to the lockout.
A league official would not tell ESPN how many emails were turned over to the Raiders. The official also declined to address the specific term that Gruden directed toward Goodell.
Gruden, who was working as the lead analyst for Monday Night Football at the time, guesses that he knows of five to seven emails that were flagged by the NFL. The NFL says that it is looking into potential disciplinary measures, but Gruden was not employed by the NFL nor any of its teams when he sent the emails in 2011.
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