Gruden Talk with Jevhon Rivers, But first a best bet by Mackenzie Rivers published on 2021-10-09T21:54:27Z WSJ Initial Report: On July 21, 2011, the National Football League and its players were working to resolve a lockout that threatened the upcoming season. That same day, Jon Gruden—the current Las Vegas Raiders coach who has been one of the most prominent figures in the NFL over the past two decades—sent an email about DeMaurice Smith, the executive director of the NFL Players Association, to a team executive. Gruden’s email described Smith with a racist trope common in anti-Black imagery. “Dumboriss Smith has lips the size of michellin tires,” he wrote in the email reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Fox5 Las Vegas Headline: “The NFL reacted strongly and quickly Friday to a report that Jon Gruden used a racist comment about NFL Players Association leader DeMaurice Smith in an email 10 years ago." I do not own the rights to the copied text above from the Wall Street Journal and Fox 5 Las Vegas. Genre Sports