
Raiders coach Jon Gruden described head of NFL players union using racially insensitive language in 2011
CNN
Jon Gruden, head coach of the NFL's Las Vegas Raiders, used racially insensitive language to describe NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith, who is Black, in an email sent in 2011, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
Gruden, who is White, was working as the lead analyst for ESPN's Monday Night Football at the time.
The Journal reported that it reviewed an email Gruden sent to the president of the Washington Football Team in which Gruden wrote, "Dumboriss Smith has lips the size of michellin [sic] tires." The email was unearthed as part of an NFL review of workplace misconduct at the Washington Football Team that took place this summer, according to an NFL spokesperson.

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