(During the pandemic, Gruden was fined thousands of dollars multiple times by the league for violating COVID-19 protocols. The coach had told ESPN on Sunday that he had made unspecified and vulgar comments about Goodell in a number of emails because he disapproved of the commissioner’s emphasis on safety.
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Nassib joined the Raiders in 2020 as a free agent on a three-year, 25 million deal, with 16.75 million. Gruden also criticized Goodell for trying to reduce concussion rates in the league, according to the Times. Social media reacts to Carl Nassib's announcement that he's gay.
In response to a sexist meme about a female referee, Gruben wrote, “Nice job roger.”
In more emails, Gruden called for the firing of a player who had protested the national anthem in 2016, made transphobic jokes, and swapped photos of half-naked women with other league officials and business executives. In 2020, the team’s lineup would expand to include Carl Nassib, who earlier this year became the first NFL player to publicly come out as gay. The emails examined by the Times ended the year Gruden came back to the Raiders for a second stint as coach. That vulgar language extended to describe some owners, coaches, and sports journalists in other messages over the years. In several emails obtained by the Times, Gruden uses homophobic slurs to refer to Goodell and a gay player, Michael Sam, drafted by the Los Angeles Rams in 2014. The coach’s messages, some of which were forwarded to the Raiders last week, were written over a period of years, beginning as early as 2010 and ending in 2018. Last week, the commissioner was sent a summary of their findings. Las Vegas Raiders defensive lineman Carl Nassib announced on Monday that he is gay, becoming the first player on an active National Football League roster to come out. Gruden’s new emails are part of a trove of 650,000 emails Goodell has had league executives combing through over the past few months.