Perspective: It’s time for the NFL to come clean about its Washington Football Team investigation
The league said it did not request that Wilkinson submit a written report, clearly not wanting any sort of paper trail. It would release what it wanted to release and nothing else. No damning details.during the investigation. Most are probably irrelevant. But surely there are some among them as damning to others as they were to Gruden and Allen.
The NFL is this country’s wealthiest sports monolith because so many people watch its games — in person, on TV, on streaming devices, on apps. It is true that many of these fans could not care less about what kind of people own teams, work for teams or play for teams. As the late Al Davis, the Raiders owner who first hired Gruden as a head coachThat’s a mantra most fans live by. Did fans of the San Francisco Giants care that Barry Bonds was clearly using steroids when he hit 73 home runs? Nope.
That’s sports. But the media still has a responsibility to report the truth and uncover coverups — and the league has a responsibility to come clean about this franchise’s past.All of the Wilkinson-acquired emails need to be released to the public, which the NFL has refused to allow. Somewhere in Wilkinson’s office is some kind of written report — or at the very least transcripts of the 150 interviews the NFL said she conducted. All of that needs to become public, too.
— but will he publicly blast his almost exclusively White ownership for consistently failing to hire qualified Black candidates? Put it this way; He has 44 million reasons to keep his mouth shut and wring his hands some more.Now, though, the entire Washington debacle has gone well past the hand-wringing, let’s-put-a-different-face-out-front stage.
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