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'Saturday Night Live' Parodies Jon Gruden, NFL Email Scandal in Cold Open

It's not often that Saturday Night Live tackles sports when an athlete is not hosting, but the NFL's email scandal proved too juicy for NBC's late-night comedy show to resist. Raiders coach Jon Gruden resigned Monday after the release of emails he had sent with misogynistic, racist and anti-LGBTQ comments.

The latest edition of the sketch show opens with NFL public relations spokesperson named "Preferred to Remain Anonymous," played by Cecily Strong. She hands off the faux press conference to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell by saying, "This is not the NFL draft, but it's still okay to boo him.