{"id":284282,"date":"2025-08-13T07:57:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T07:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/284282\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T07:57:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T07:57:15","slug":"jon-gruden-hoping-truth-comes-out-in-legal-battle-with-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/284282\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Gruden hoping ‘truth’ comes out in legal battle with NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former head coach Jon Gruden is \u201clooking forward\u201d to the \u201ctruth\u201d coming out over his allegations that the NFL and commissioner Roger Goodell had leaked disparaging emails that Gruden had sent before his resignation as head coach of the Raiders in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a statement to ESPN<\/a>, less than 24 hours after the Nevada Supreme Court ruled<\/a> in his favor to prevent the league from forcing Gruden\u2019s suit into a closed-door arbitration, the Super Bowl-winning coach reiterated his claim that the league had a hand in the whole situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to having the truth come out, and I want to make sure what happened to me doesn\u2019t happen to anyone else,\u201d Gruden said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"JonJon Gruden speaks with the media following an NFL football game against the Pittsburgh Steelers in Pittsburgh, Sept. 19, 2021. AP<\/p>\n

\u201cThe league\u2019s actions disrupted the whole season,\u201d Gruden added. \u201cWe were leading the division at the time, and they completely blindsided me and the team.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat happened wasn\u2019t right and I\u2019m glad the court didn\u2019t let the NFL cover it up,\u201d he added in his statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The emails in question<\/a> were published by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times in October 2021 and showed Gruden using racist, sexist and anti-gay language in messages sent to then-Commanders general manager Bruce Allen in the years before Gruden\u2019s coaching tenure in Las Vegas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The emails came up during the NFL\u2019s inquiry into the Commanders\u2019 toxic work environment, and Gruden claims they were leaked to force him to resign as head coach of the Raiders, something he eventually did.<\/p>\n

\"NBCJon Gruden watches the Detroit Lions training camp with former Monday Night Football and current NBC announcer Mike Tirico at Meijer Performance Center. Lon Horwedel-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

ESPN reported the league will next petition the Nevada Supreme Court for a rehearing. If that fails, the NFL would then appeal to the United States Supreme Court.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Nevada Supreme Court ruled in Gruden\u2019s favor in a 5-2 decision, but the court did not determine the merits of Gruden\u2019s legal claims, only making the call on the NFL\u2019s attempt to push the case into a private arbitration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former head coach Jon Gruden is \u201clooking forward\u201d to the \u201ctruth\u201d coming out over his allegations that the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,3925,393,2699,6,1902,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-284282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-jon-gruden","10":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","11":"tag-nevada","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-roger-goodell","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115020394904031649","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}