Jon Gruden gets a job at Barstool Sports

NFL agitator Jon Gruden has taken a job with one of the NFL’s biggest agitators in all media.

Gruden has signed one multi-year agreement with Barstool Sports.

The Super Bowl XXXVII-winning coach of the Buccaneers was traded to Tampa by the Raiders prior to the 2002 season. He joined ESPN after being fired by the Bucs in early 2009.

Gruden returned to the Raiders in 2018. In 2021, he was essentially forced to resign due to the selective leaking of allegedly confidential emails collected in the Washington investigation.

Yes, the outcome was inevitable given the content of the emails. No, it doesn’t make the seemingly deliberate effort to take him out over the course of a season.

A lawsuit against the NFL and commissioner Roger Goodell was quickly filed. More than three years later, the question of whether the trial should play out in open court or in the NFL’s secret, rigged, kangaroo arbitration court is still deadlocked.

Recently, Gruden secured a rehearing of the case before the full Nevada Supreme Court. If he prevails on the issue, the NFL will undoubtedly appeal to the US Supreme Court, further delaying the case.

Barstool occupies a separate place on the NFL’s unofficial shit list. Founder Dave Portnoy and others staged a sit-in in the lobby of the league office after Tom Brady was suspended for #DeflateGate. The NFL has since tried (at times successfully) to keep Barstool Sports personalities out of NFL events.

Earlier this year, Gruden launched a YouTube channel. It has done well. He is entertaining and informative.

As will his lawsuit if (as we hope) it ends up playing out in court.