Cancel culture has spread throughout society.
Not even professional sports are immune from this modern plague.
And a famed broadcaster has a shocking theory about one ‘canceled’ NFL coach.
Jon Gruden is no longer the head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders, and famed sports broadcaster Brent Musburger has a theory why.
During a radio interview, Musburger said Gruden’s cancelation was a coordinated media hit.
Musburger said:
“As I told Coach, ‘Whoever took you out, Jon, that was a paid assassin.’ That was one of the best hit jobs that I’ve ever been around. They didn’t go to their media goombahs. They didn’t leak this to Adam Schefter or one of those guys that breaks stories. They first went to the Wall Street Journal. And when Gruden was still coaching after that, then they dumped the rest of it on the New York Times. That was a professional hit job.”
The NFL combed through hundreds of thousands of emails related to investigation into malfeasance within the Washington Football Team organization.
And the only untoward emails found belonged to Gruden from a decade ago when he wasn’t even in the NFL.
The league announced that no other offensive emails were uncovered, but refused to release the emails.
The narrow fallout of the so-called exhaustive investigation gives Musburger’s argument credence.
It certainly was convenient that Gruden, someone who was no fan of commissioner Roger Goodell, was the only person who said anything remotely offensive in any email.
Gruden is currently suing the NFL over the incident because of the damage to his reputation.
Gruden alleges in his suit:
“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. 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.”
Leaking in batches is also a sign of a coordinated hit.
However, Gruden will have difficulty tying it back to Goodell.
Musburger continued:
“There was a second lawsuit involved, okay? Between the owner, [Daniel] Snyder of Washington, and a former general manager. And that means that a lot of outside people had access to those emails that they were going through. So I think the hardest part for Gruden’s lawyers to prove is that somebody from the National Football League actually leaked that. Because if it is somebody from the NFL, shame on them. Because [Raiders owner] Mark Davis should have been told in the summer, when he had something to do about it.”
ESPN and other “woke” sports outlets pounced on the opportunity to bury Gruden, so there was clearly a concerted effort to take him out.