Jon Gruden

“Jon Gruden stepped down Monday as the coach of the Las Vegas Raiders football team hours after The New York Times detailed emails in which he had made homophobic and misogynistic remarks.” New York Times

Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that in 2011 Gruden “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.” Wall Street Journal

Many on both sides accuse the NFL of hypocrisy:

“There is a blatant...