I felt that Gene Upshaw would never have allowed that to happen. I was really upset that there was going to be a lockout. I probably looked at (Smith) as the villain. “I know at the time the collective bargaining agreement was changing, there was a lockout going on or the threat of a lockout, if I can remember. “I do know this, at that point of my life, 121 years ago or 10 years ago, I am sure I vented a little bit with my friends about certain things,” Gruden told The Athletic after the email became public. Gruden tried to walk back his comments in an article with The Athletic where he said he used “rubber lips” as a way to describe someone as a liar. I would bet my next paycheck that Gruden is not the only person that said something racist in those 650,000 emails. For me, it was the emails that were not released that I was intrigued with. I wouldn’t quite say I was outraged, but it just didn’t sit well with me.
After sitting on the comments and putting myself in place of Smith, I was still offended.
We are in the thick of cancel culture and I did not want to have a knee jerk reaction, but instead wanted to give it a day or two. When I first heard those comments from Gruden, I was unsure how I felt about his comments. In the email, Gruden says “Dumboriss Smith has lips the size of michellin (sic) tires.” Initially Gruden came under fire for his racist comments on NFL Players Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith in a 2011 email to Allen. Gruden was not the focus, as he was not in the league at the time. NFL officials uncovered the emails as part of the workplace misconduct investigation into Allen. Gruden was essentially forced to resign following the release of emails he sent to former WFT President Bruce Allen from 2010 through 2018. An email scandal resulting from the investigation into the Washington Football Team (WFT) has cost Jon Gruden his job as head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders.
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