OT: Gruden sues NFL and Goodell

[neckroll#14]

Jon Gruden sues NFL and commissioner Roger Goodell | CNN

Former Raiders coach Jon Gruden alleges in a lawsuit that the NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell sought to destroy his career and reputation through a malicious and orchestrated campaign.

www.cnn.com

 

[Triumph]

Krafts lawyers to the rescue to defend Bobbys ol buddy Rodger from these salacious accusations.

 

[DropKickFlutie]

It is pretty messed up that they leak this specifically about gruden yet the entirety of the WFT info is kept under wraps. Does look like a targeted hit and somehow Goodell and the WFT are fine.

 

[everlong]

Somewhere Tom Brady is shaking his head thinking, yep I definitely should have turned over my cell phone to such a reliable and consistent bunch of asshats.

Obviously Gruden isn't squeeky clean in all of this but I can't help but hope he wins. I also think that for Goodell to target him Gruden must have pissed off at least one owner and the code red was ordered.

 

[DropKickFlutie]

Somewhere Tom Brady is shaking his head thinking, yep I definitely should have turned over my cell phone to such a reliable and consistent bunch of asshats.

Obviously Gruden isn't squeeky clean in all of this but I can't help but hope he wins. I also think that for Goodell to target him Gruden must have pissed off at least one owner and the code red was ordered.

Brady was absolutely right not to trust goodell.

 

[UrbanCowboy]

I don't like Chuckie but I hope he wins. I shudder to think if all the stupid stuff I said ten or more years ago could be used against me today.

 

[DropKickFlutie]

I don't like Chuckie but I hope he wins. I shudder to think if all the stupid stuff I said ten or more years ago could be used against me tiday.

If they went through all the emails probably a bunch of owners, GMs, coaches are gone

 

[Le Numéro Douze]

Somewhere Tom Brady is shaking his head thinking, yep I definitely should have turned over my cell phone to such a reliable and consistent bunch of asshats.

Obviously Gruden isn't squeeky clean in all of this but I can't help but hope he wins. I also think that for Goodell to target him Gruden must have pissed off at least one owner and the code red was ordered.

To use wrestling terminology, it is a heel vs heel match. No good guy here.

Gruden is a scumbag suing bigger scumbags.

 

[RIpats88]

If they went through all the emails probably a bunch of owners, GMs, coaches are gone

There's probably a ton of bad emails from coaches and GMs in that investigation. But the NFL is refusing to release them for that reason.

They only went after grudens because he called Goodel a ****y

 

[italian pat patriot]

This is the beginning...pop corn ready

 

[SHOWTIME15]

The league should have leaked other emails as well just to show that they weren't doing it to target Gruden.

 

[n1997y]

The league should have leaked other emails as well just to show that they weren't doing it to target Gruden.

They were probably intending to hang the whole WFT misogyny mess on him with the leak, but screwed it up with what they put out initially.

anyway, I hope Gruden’s lawyers get all the emails between Pash and Goodell and Snyder and other WFT execs as part of their discovery. With no amount specified they have every incentive to push as far as they can before settling.

 

[Patriot Missile]

As much as his leaked emails disgust me, I hope he wins the lawsuit. You can go on about those are the nfls emails property but I do find it odd, like everyone else that only Grudens were released. 650,000 emails and none released regarding the investigation at hand which was the WFT cheerleading scandal. No juicy deflategate details or other scandals. Definitely imo they burned down Gruden to take the heat off and also a vendetta for Grudens xomments regarding Goofdell. Knowing what we know about the nazi pos sob, would anyone be surprised?

 

[TBR]

Good. Hope he wins big.

 

[FCB02062]

another hit job by the "establishment" going after someone who doesn't bow down to the NFL overlords....similar to the coordinated hit on Portnoy

 

[Fubby]

It’s no surprise that Goodell keeps his job and is getting the big pay days. He’s the happy warrior doing the dirty work for the owners. What’s bizarre is he doesn’t do the dirty work particularly well and still gets rewarded… hope Gruden fleeces the MFers

 

[jah]

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[oldrover]

IIRC, didn't Gruden quit? He'd have a lot better case IMHO if he had waited to be fired. Of course... I'm no attorney...

 

[goheels22002]

Oh, goodie! I hope this goes to a jury trial. Watching Gruden drag the NFL, Roger Goodell, and Dan Snyder through the mud while the NFL drags Jon Gruden through the mud will be great - sorta like Hard Knocks for billionaires. Gruden will probably wind up with a big settlement shrouded in NDAs.

You gotta hand it to Roger Goodell and the NFL. They really know how to win the off-season - Spygate, Deflategate, Bountygate, concussion-denial, Jim Irsay's Bag O' Drugs & Cash, Deadskins Voyeur Videos, Orchids of Asia Day Spa, Rex's foot fetish, Blackballing Colin Kaepernick, etc. The hits just keep on coming.

 

[RobertWeathers]

IIRC, didn't Gruden quit? He'd have a lot better case IMHO if he had waited to be fired. Of course... I'm no attorney...

I'm not one either but it seems the filing stands fine enough on its own as the suit claims the NFL's actions led to Gruden suffering from "severe financial damages and harm to his career and reputation." It claims Gruden should be awarded compensatory damages and "exemplary and punitive damages as a result of Defendants' oppression, fraud, or malice," .

Interesting how he picked a lawyer with a focus on antitrust matters.

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