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If the Jon Gruden email scandal had only contained one message, with one racist line about one person, the deposed head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders would probably still have his job.
Late last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that in 2011 Gruden — then an ESPN analyst — wrote to then-Washington Football Team executive Bruce Allen, and called NFL Players’ Association president DeMaurice Smith, “Dumboriss Smith.” Later in the same sentence, Gruden wrote that Smith, who is Black, “has lips the size
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