Jon Gruden’s exit as an NFL coach is prompting calls for the league to release more information from the investigation that unearthed years’ worth …
Jon Gruden’s exit as an NFL coach is prompting calls for the league to release more information from the investigation that unearthed years’ worth of misogynist, homophobic and racist emails. Some of the loudest calls are coming from former cheerleaders and other employees whose mistreatment by the Washington Football Team prompted the NFL inquiry in the first place. «It is further evidence that the league is just corrupt on a larger scale than we can even begin to imagine,» said Melanie Coburn, a former cheerleader and marketing director for the WFT, told NPR. Gruden is «the only person to be held accountable and lose their job» after the NFL’s extensive inquiry into the Washington Football Team, according to lawyers Lisa Banks and Debra Katz, who represent 40 women and men who worked for the Washington franchise. Gruden resigned on Monday after emails emerged in which he used misogynist, homophobic and racist language. Gruden’s messages were sent to Bruce Allen, the former president of the Washington Football Team, and other white men. At the time, Gruden was working as an on-air analyst for ESPN. The messages’ content quickly set off calls for more emails to be released, as people debated whether Gruden’s words should be seen as an outlier, or as an indicator of others’ views in pro football. DeMaurice Smith, the NFL Players Association executive director whom Gruden referred to with a racist insult in one message, says that what struck him in the emails was the comfort Gruden and others felt in expressing their unenlightened views.
