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In article <t247l3$3cbr3$36@news.freedyn.de>
forging asshole <governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote:

Roger Goodell is a wimpy piece of shit. He bent over for woke and faggots.

We can confidently speculate on its reasons, but the NFL really
wants Jon Gruden to shut up and go away.

Which puts me in the supremely uncomfortable position of …
having to root for Gruden to dig in and keep fighting the
league? Ugh.


What a downright icky realization.

Let me explain: In court filings recently reviewed by reporter
David Charns of KLAS, the NFL alleges that Gruden didn’t just
send racist, sexist, xenophobic and/or anti-gay emails while he
was with ESPN and writing to then-Washington team president
Bruce Allen and others; Gruden “consistently” sent those kinds
of emails after he was hired by the Raiders in early 2019.

As a practical matter, that isn’t exactly a surprising
revelation. Leopards don’t change their spots. A grown man who
peddles in antiquated racist tropes by calling a highly educated
Black man like NFL Players Association head DeMaurice Smith
“Dumboriss” with “lips the size of michellin [sic] tires” isn’t
expected to somehow gain a conscience because he got a different
job.

But the NFL doesn’t care when Gruden sent his emails or who was
paying him at the time he sent them.

The motion the league filed is a threat to Gruden, meant to
protect the league’s interests. Full stop.

Lest we forget, to this point Gruden almost inexplicably remains
the only person who has faced any real consequence for getting
entangled in the vast, poisonous web of the Washington workplace
misconduct scandal. The NFL continues to protect Commanders
owner Dan Snyder, who apparently did nothing to stem the
yearslong, toxic environment of misogyny and sexual harassment
women in Washington’s offices had to deal with from Snyder
underlings. Snyder has also been accused of harassment and
inappropriate conduct by at least two women. And former
employees have revealed they were told to make lewd videos,
called the “good bits,” for Snyder after the annual
cheerleaders’ photo shoot, showing the women in inadvertent and
various moments of nudity that occurred as they posed.

Someone decided to leak Gruden’s emails to The New York Times
and Wall Street Journal, emails that led to what Gruden says was
a “forced resignation” in October 2021 and a lawsuit against the
league a month later. The NFL denies any connection to the leak.

And commissioner Roger Goodell wants us to believe that of the
650,000 emails that were part of the investigation into
Washington, only the emails Gruden was part of contained any
racism, sexism, xenophobia or anti-gay sentiment.

That's probably why the NFL wants Gruden to stop pursuing his
case in the courts, negotiate a settlement and shut up: Gruden
can likely prove that he sure as hell was not the only one who
peddled in such puerile behavior.

And that puts us in the supremely uncomfortable position of
rooting for Gruden to dig in and keep fighting, on the hopes
that if he does we’ll get an even better sense of how rotten the
NFL truly is.

If Gruden doesn’t just take the league’s money and the case
proceeds, he can force discovery. Sure, we’ll likely see more of
his emails, but we have a good sense of exactly who Gruden is
through the exchanges that have already been made public. The
big bonus is that we also might see who else was on the sending
and receiving end of some of those 650,000 emails, and whether
Gruden’s electronic archives have old messages to and from at
least some of the league’s heavy hitters that contain a lot of
the same kind of degrading, dehumanizing, discriminatory content.

The NFL absolutely does not want that.

Despite mounting evidence to the contrary, the league wants us
to believe that since Goodell said “Black lives do matter” in a
video and fields had “END RACISM” painted on end zones and team
owners agreed to give a few pennies each to the Players
Coalition and has run PSAs about domestic violence, that it has
solved everything. Nothing to see here, it is totally not a
patently racist, sexist, xenophobic group, all the while
laughing at the hoi polloi as they sip Champagne on their mega
yachts in the Mediterranean, as Snyder did for much of the
summer while he tried to evade a subpoena from Congress.

So as icky as it feels, go Gruden go.

https://sports.yahoo.com/the-nfl-wants-jon-grudens-lawsuit-to-go- away-heres-why-its-important-it-doesnt-210705618.html

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