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"The league reportedly won’t release a formal written report into its investigation, which begs that question of how the Gruden emails got out?"

"The first leaked emails emerged Friday in which Gruden made a crude reference to the size of NFLPA boss DeMaurice Smith's lips. Coincidentally (or not), later that same day the NFLPA held a vote on whether or not to retain Smith as head of the union. The union did, but barely, with Smith reportedly receiving the minimum 22 votes to earn another term."

"Or if you were wondering why, out of 650,000 emails the NFL had privy to, Gruden's and Gruden's alone have been made public, well ..."
"It's worth taking a closer look, not at who didn't benefit, but who did."

From NBC Sports --
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"On March 15, 2009, Smith was elected unanimously by a board of active player representatives to become the executive director of the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA). Although Smith lacked football experience, his ties to presidential power and business experts helped give him an advantage over other potential candidates like Troy Vincent, Trace Armstrong, and sports attorney David Cornwell."
 
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CarolCityHigh said:
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"The league reportedly won’t release a formal written report into its investigation, which begs that question of how the Gruden emails got out?"

"The first leaked emails emerged Friday in which Gruden made a crude reference to the size of NFLPA boss DeMaurice Smith's lips. Coincidentally (or not), later that same day the NFLPA held a vote on whether or not to retain Smith as head of the union. The union did, but barely, with Smith reportedly receiving the minimum 22 votes to earn another term."

"Or if you were wondering why, out of 650,000 emails the NFL had privy to, Gruden's and Gruden's alone have been made public, well ..."
"It's worth taking a closer look, not at who didn't benefit, but who did."

From NBC Sports --
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"On March 15, 2009, Smith was elected unanimously by a board of active player representatives to become the executive director of the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA). Although Smith lacked football experience, his ties to presidential power and business experts helped give him an advantage over other potential candidates like Troy Vincent, Trace Armstrong, and sports attorney David Cornwell."
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What Kind of Trouble?????
https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.c...ng-lack-of-transparency-in-wft-investigation/

From NBC Sports

"It’s unclear why the email came to light on Friday. Some in league circles speculate that the NFL wants Gruden to be fired by the Raiders. Others wonder whether the NFL was trying to help NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith secure enough votes to remain on the job, in lieu of having a new executive director who may feel compelled to show up and start potential trouble for the league."
 
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Shït getting real

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People are going to start turning on each other.

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Strictly a Wall Street player -connecting the wealthy owners and corporations together for more profit?
"Prior to his work with the NFLPA, DeMaurice Smith was a trial lawyer and litigation partner in the Washington, D.C. offices of Latham & Watkins and Patton Boggs, serving as the chair of the firm's government investigations and white-collar practice group.[1] Smith previously served as Counsel to then-Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder in the U.S. Department of Justice before entering private practice.[2] He spent nine years with the U.S. Attorney's office and one with the Department of Justice, working on issues like national security and prison construction.[1] Smith has also represented Fortune 500 companies, and argued numerous cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.[3]"

"On March 15, 2009, Smith was elected unanimously by a board of active player representatives to become the executive director of the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA). Although Smith lacked football experience, his ties to presidential power and business experts helped give him an advantage over other potential candidates like Troy Vincent, Trace Armstrong, and sports attorney David Cornwel"
 
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My question is, does DeMaurice Smith have big lips? If he does, how is pointing that out racist? Julia Roberts has big lips. Is racist to point that out?
 
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Shït getting real

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Bruce Allen emails include Adam Schefter seeking feedback on unpublished story - ProFootballTalk

The NFL may never fully disclose all of the 650,000 emails generated by the Washington Football Team investigation. (It should.) Other information from those materials nevertheless may come to light. Some already has come to light, even though it initially went unnoticed. Via Sam Farmer and...
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People are going to start turning on each other.

Spear shall be shaken, shield shall be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now, ride! Ride for ruin and the world's ending!
Receipts will be shown!

😭😭😭😭
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ESPN involved. Imagine that!
 
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305407cane said:
But why would he do that? Other than some questionable draft choices has gruden been a bad coach ?
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Because his record sucks?
I don't know. I thought he was a lot better but he's 22-31 in 3.5 years. I think they've seen enough to know he's not making the leap to Superbowl under his leadership.
 
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CanesZ06 said:
My question is, does DeMaurice Smith have big lips? If he does, how is pointing that out racist? Julia Roberts has big lips. Is racist to point that out?
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I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume these are sincere questions. If I'm wrong, please feel free to cruise on by. No hard feelings.

When Gruden writes, "Dumboriss Smith has lips the size of michellin tires," he is (whether consciously or subconsciously) playing on an ugly racial trope with significant, ignominious historical roots in this country. Unfortunately, there is a history in this country of making caricatures of black people with large, disfigured lips and exaggerated body parts, and which was particularly popular during Jim Crow. Throughout that era, the insensitive depictions of racial stereotypes of the "pickanninies," "coons," and "golliwog" dolls generally tended to include large, red lips in their depictions. (See Link to the Jim Crow Museum's Webpage on Anti-Black Imagery). This is, shamefully, a very real part of American history. But these stereotypes continue to show up to this day, albeit typically in less obvious ways.

One example of how this sort of profiling based on stereotypical Afrocentric features (e.g., full lips, dark complexion, dark eyes, wide nose) can be particularly dangerous is its impact on our criminal justice system. Some studies have shown that while overt racial profiling in sentencing is down, profiling based on stereotypical Afrocentric features continues to be a problem (See Link to One Such Study). In essence, a black man in America with a darker complexion and bigger lips is more likely to get a harsher sentence than a black man with a lighter complexion and thinner lips for a similar offense.

Your question about Julia Roberts is also interesting and illustrates these pervasive racial undertones as it relates to certain features. Julia Roberts tends to be celebrated for her full lips. And today, women across this country get injections and treatments in order to have full lips. However, African-American women with full lips have not generally had the same reception to their full lips, even fairly recently. (See Link to NY Times Article re: Ugandan Model Aamito Lagum Getting Dragged By Racist Internet Trolls on Instagram). So Julia Roberts's full lips are something to be desired, but Aamito Lagum's full lips are vilified and the target of overt racial slurs, with the one major difference being the former is a white American actress and the latter is a black Ugandan model.

Back to Gruden, I can't say for certain whether he was consciously trying to be racially insensitive in his insult (which could be considered "racist") or whether he was simply trying to be crass and was merely unaware/ignorant of the racial connotation and undertones present in his comment (which I, personally, wouldn't consider "racist"). Intent is hard to judge off of an e-mail, and I try not to condemn people for the thoughtless things they say. But any time the discussion tends to the derogatory depiction or classification of a person's physical features that is also a historically, negatively stereotyped feature of that person's ethnic/racial group, I'm going to be suspicious, at the least.

Moving away from Afrocentric stereotypes, had Gruden said Josh Rosen has a nose like a flamingo, or that Younghoe Koo's eyes are more slanted than a Louisiana politician, would you ask whether Rosen really had a large nose, or whether Koo's eyes are actually slanted?

Just some food for thought (and, maybe, understanding).
 
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