Watch Randy Moss Cry Live On Air During Discussion On Raiders Coach's Email On How Big A Black Man's Lips Are

BOSTON (CBS) — Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon Gruden will coach Sunday’s game under uncomfortable circumstances, after comments he made in a 2011 email about NFLPA president DeMaurice Smith surfaced on Friday.

In the email, Gruden wrote, “Dumboriss Smith has lips the size of michellin tires [sic].” He’s since apologized, though it’s not yet determined if or how he will be disciplined by the Raiders or the NFL.

On Sunday morning, former Patriots Randy Moss and Tedy Bruschi spoke candidly about the matter.


“This may have been 10 years ago, OK, but Jon Gruden’s response slash excuse was recent. See, I don’t think he understands what he did in that email,” Bruschi said on Sunday NFL Countdown. “When you insult a Black man’s intelligence by demeaning his appearance, that is racist. That is the only way I know it. That is the only way I was raised. That is racist.”

ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported on the show that after Gruden apologized to his team on Friday morning, one Black player hugged Gruden and told the coach that he has his support. Moss said such a response is absolutely wrong.

“You heard Adam Schefter talking about the one Black player, well, you don’t want to say his name, because he’s totally wrong in this in not understanding the magnitude of something like this,” Moss said. “We’re going into the 21st century, OK? And instead of us moving forward, we’re moving backwards. And I don’t, I really don’t know what percentage of the National Football League is Black, but I know it’s over 50 percent — 60, 70 percent, OK? And I know we generate a whole lot of money for this National Football League. And for you to hear Adam Schefter talking about some discipline or some distance from [Raiders owner Mark] Davis, the clock is ticking. We are watching to see what the National Football League is going to do about this, because I got to just say it: We’re trying to move forward going into the 21st century with the National Football League. And you’re talking about the kids from 10, 15 years from now that’s going to come into the league. What is this showing them? If they’re coming in to try to keep this National Football League going, generating all this money, and being this good entertainment for our country. Where are we headed?”

Moss spoke of “the brotherhood” of the NFL, which allowed him to meet countless people from different backgrounds that he never would have gotten to know otherwise. Gruden’s comment, Moss said, show a disregard for that concept.

“You have a leader of an organization that’s leading a group of men from different walks of life, of different nationalities, and racism is a big concern? I don’t know where the Raiders move from here, but the clock is ticking for the National Football League and the Las Vegas Raiders,” Moss said.

Moss added that the Raiders’ locker room must be “totally divided” after Gruden’s comments, while Bruschi said the players will simply be focusing on themselves on Sunday afternoon.