Jon Gruden's email scandal was 'a professional hit job,' Brent Musburger says

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Brent Musburger, the legendary sportscaster who does the radio call for Las Vegas Raiders games, revealed Wednesday what he told Jon Gruden about the email scandal that ensnared him.

Gruden was fired after misogynistic and racist emails were leaked to The New York Times and Wall Street Journal in October. He subsequently filed a lawsuit last month against the NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell, alleging a "Soviet-style character assassination."

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"As I told coach, whoever took you out, Jon, that was a paid assassin," Musburger said in an interview with Las Vegas Sports Network's JT the Brick. "That was one of the best hit jobs that I’ve ever been around. They didn’t go to their media g-------. They didn’t leak this to Adam Schefter or one of those guys that breaks stories. They first went to the Wall Street Journal. And when Gruden was still coaching after that, then they dumped the rest of it on the New York Times. That was a professional hit job."

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