Jon Gruden Has Been Erased.

Didja' hear the news?  

Jon Gruden, (in)famous head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders has been fired unceremoniously for numerous apparently racist and homophobic and transphobic and misogynistic and a whole bunch of other "ics" to let us know he's a truly bad person.  Truly bad.

Evil!  Clear down to his core!

Except the thousands of referenced emails, during which he insulted almost everyone, were from 10 years ago.  Ten years ago as a part of the NFL's investigation into the Washington "Redskins" Football Team's "toxic" work environment.  And during that investigation they reviewed millions of emails from everyone in the organization.  And that included emails from one Jon Gruden, then coach, in a string of completely unrelated conversations between he and Bruce Allen, the Team's owner.  

Now follow with me, fellow Patriots, as this can get complicated.

So Gruden had a lot to say, privately, about nearly everybody.  And most of it wasn't complementary.  Even incendiary.  But had some disgruntled weenie within the Team not leaked these emails to the MSMedia, none of this would have come out.  And none of it SHOULD have come out, since they were PRIVATE.  Whatever happened to privacy rights?  Did they get sacrificied on the alter of "wokeness," too?

But that's okay.  Gruden had to be "cancelled" on the alter of "wokeness" for having called the NFL players representive's lips "...the size of Michelin tires." And he called the League's CEO a "queer."  And O'Biden a "nervous...p**sy."  But again, we wouldn't, and shouldn't, have known about these comments, had someone not had an axe to grind for Gruden.  And boy, did they ever get a pelt!

Now, don't get me wrong.  I think he's an asshole!  A true, world-class dick.  I've always called him "Chucky" because of his face's similarity to the movie horror doll.  Hell of a football coach, but then again, Jeffrey Dahmer was a terrific artist, they tell me.  But what he says, in private, so long as it hurts no one, is no business of mine, nor yours, nor the National Football League's.  I trust you'll agree.  

As a matta' of fact, I'd like to know whatever happened to the good old days?  The times when if you're caught with your hand in the cookie jar, for no matter what awful infraction, drugs, sex, booze, etc., whatever, you could call a press conference, admit your guilt, weep uncontrollably, tell us all you'd be entering rehab and ask everyone to pray for you.  America loves comeback stories!  Everyone would rally around you and wish you well as you embark on your long journey back to normalcy...

Think Gary Hart.  Think John "Brylcreme" Edwards.  Think Billy Jeff "Blue Dress" Clinton.  Think Eddie "The Swimmer" Kennedy.  This world-class turd permitted an innocent woman to drown, and was reelected to the Senate by his constituents four more times.  I could go on and on, but you get the idea.  This is all just another victory for the Progressive Left's incessant hunt for somebody, anybody to "cancel."

Still doubt me?  Remember that Robert Downey, Jr. was ordered to wash cars at the Riverside Sheriff's Office for a summer awhile back.  Something about being caught with oodles of cocaine his jeans.  Again.  And again.  And again...  

Oh wait!  Downey's a Democrat!  Never mind...

Well, folks, I frankly don't give a damn about Gruden, but it sure seems to me that his players, having worked with him for 4 years in Vegas, and 7 years at Orlando, and another 5 years in the broadcast booth, would be the best judges of whether he's racist or not.  And from what his players are saying, he ain't.

However, the purge has commenced.  His plaque has been taken down from the Bucs' stadium.  Also the Raiders.'  I doubt his name will ever be spoken again in the "polite" society of NFL football or broadcast sports.  Taking a page out of Mao, he's been effectively "cancelled."

It's "1984," just 37 years too late...