Jon Gruden Made Racist Remark About NFL Union Leader in Email [View all]

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. The message was uncovered amid a workplace misconduct investigation into the team, which included league executives reviewing hundreds of thousands of emails.

Gruden wrote in the email, referring to Smith, that “Dumboriss Smith has lips the size of michellin tires.”

Per the report:

A review of other emails in the same thread did not make it clear what prompted Gruden’s comment. The email chain initially began with several people discussing a TMZ story about Tiger Woods splitting with his longtime caddie. The discussion then shifted to NFL matters, although the context of the remarks was not clear.

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