{"id":8592319,"date":"2022-08-31T12:44:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T19:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eastbaytimes.com?p=8592319&preview_id=8592319"},"modified":"2022-09-01T05:38:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T12:38:58","slug":"tearful-jon-gruden-apologizes-for-his-emails-wants-to-return-to-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eastbaytimes.com\/2022\/08\/31\/tearful-jon-gruden-apologizes-for-his-emails-wants-to-return-to-nfl\/","title":{"rendered":"Tearful Jon Gruden apologizes for his emails, wants to return to NFL: \u201cI am a good person\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

With tears in his eyes, former Raiders coach Jon Gruden said he\u2019s ashamed of his inflammatory emails an NFL investigation exposed<\/a> last year but he\u2019s hoping both for forgiveness and another chance to return to the league.<\/p>\n

\u201cI get choked up, because there\u2019s a lot of misunderstanding out there right now \u2026 what you read, what you hear, what you watch on TV,\u201d Gruden told reporters and an audience at Arkansas\u2019 Little Rock Touchdown Club on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The 59-year-old Gruden addressed his forced resignation as Raiders coach<\/a> last October after his racist, misogynistic and homophobic slurs in emails from 2010-2018 were revealed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not gonna say anything but honest things here,\u201d Gruden told the audience. \u201cI\u2019m ashamed about what has come about in these emails, and I\u2019ll make no excuses for it. It\u2019s shameful.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I am a good person, I believe that. I go to church. I\u2019ve been married for 31 years. I got three great boys. I still love football. I made some mistakes, but I don\u2019t think anybody else in here hasn\u2019t. And I just ask for forgiveness, and hopefully I get another shot.\u201d<\/p>\n