Former Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden is suing the NFL and Roger Goodell, claiming the league and commissioner sought to destroy his career and reputation through a “malicious and orchestrated campaign”, per the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s David Ferrara.
Gruden resigned as the Raiders head coach last month after a series of racist, homophobic and misogynistic emails of his were leaked to the press. The emails were discovered through the NFL’s investigation of the Washington Football Team’s workplace misconduct, which included digging through over 650,000 emails. Despite the large volume of messages, the coach’s are the only ones that have made their way to the media, and that’s a major basis of his claim.