David Ferrara of the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported on Friday that former Raiders head coach Jon Gruden is suing the NFL and commissioner Roger Goodell.
Gruden alleges the NFL selectively leaked his emails to the WSJ & NYT to force his resignation and harm his reputation. He added that there is no explanation for why his emails were the only ones leaked out of 650K involving the WFT, and why it leaked during the season, not before.
The NFL reportedly knew about these emails well before the 2021 campaign kicked off.
Gruden’s lawsuit refers to it as “a Soviet-style character assassination. There was no warning and no process. Defendants held the emails for months until they were leaked to the national media in the middle of the Raiders’ season … to cause maximum damage to Gruden.”
“When their initial salvo did not result in Gruden’s firing or resignation, Defendants ratcheted up the pressure by intimating that further documents would become public if Gruden was not fired,” the lawsuit states, via the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “They followed through with this threat by leaking another batch of documents to the New York Times for an October 11, 2021 article. On October 7, 2021, Jon Gruden was the head coach of the Raiders on a 10-year, $100-million contract. By October 11, 2021, he had been forced to resign.”
Just minutes after his lawsuit hit the news, the NFL fired back.
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“The allegations are entirely meritless and the NFL will vigorously defend against these claims.”
Reports said that legal action could be coming from Gruden, so this shouldn’t come as a big surprise.
What will come as a surprise is what happens with those other emails that the league says did not contain anything as terrible as what we heard about from Jon Gruden.
