In fight against NFL, Jon Gruden becomes the unlikely antihero we need

In fight against NFL, Jon Gruden becomes the unlikely antihero we need

You cannot cancel a man without shame, and so Jon Gruden refuses to yield. Four years ago, he was stunned to see his crude emails leaked, ending his second stint as the Las Vegas Raiders coach, shaving five figures off his $100 million contract and transforming him from a likable, cartoonish football madman to an outcast with a digital trail of homophobic, misogynist and racist messages. Yet here he stands, over the embarrassment and under the N…