‘Unconscionable’: Ex-Raiders coach Jon Gruden blasts NFL over request to move lawsuit to arbitration
current Steelers defensive assistant Brian Flores that alleges racism in its hiring practices. The Dolphins fired Flores in January, despite his 8-1 finish to the 2021 season.
“These statements were nothing more than hollow corporate speak when made on January 19, 2022,” Gruden argues in one of the oppositions, “but they appear quite foolish now after the torrent of revelations against the NFL and Goodell that have recently come to light.”
Both oppositions were submitted Friday in Clark County District Court. Aside from the one that was against the NFL’s motion to move the case to arbitration, the other was an opposition to the motion the NFL filed to dismiss the suit.
USA TODAY Sports obtained a copy of both.
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Gruden resigned as the head coach of the Raiders Oct. 11 after The New York Times revealed excerpts of his emails, which contained homophobic and misogynistic language. The emails were sent between 2011 and 2018 and obtained by the NFL as part of an unrelated investigation.
used a racist trope when describing NFL Players’ Association executive director DeMaurice Smith in a 2011 email.
The NFL obtained Gruden’s emails as part of an unrelated investigation into the culture of the Washington Commanders under owner Daniel Snyder – a probe that resulted in a $10 million fine for the team, but no written report detailing the transgressions that investigators uncovered.