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Jon Gruden has been an NFL outcast since 2021 when he resigned his head teaching place from the Las Vegas Raiders after leaked emails revealed a historical past of troubling conduct between 2011-2018.
The previous Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach who gained a Tremendous Bowl with the staff again in January 2003 was additionally a fixture on ESPN from 2009 up till 2018 when Gruden took the Raiders job. He had changed Tony Kornheiser because the MNF shade analyst and received very comfy in entrance of the digicam, one thing that seems to be coming in useful for him on his new Jon Gruden YouTube and TikTok channels.
I used to be first alerted that Jon Gruden is on YouTube and TikTok after seeing a video…on X of all locations. This video exhibits Gruden dancing to dubstep music between calling out gamers and barking/yelling ‘hoo.’ If this was anybody else in soccer it might be surprising however Jon Gruden will not be regular:
Jon Gruden is the funniest man in soccer pic.twitter.com/KczYv9xIBS
— Jake Malasek (@jakemalasek) September 19, 2024
That video was pulled from the ‘Gruden Loves Soccer‘ TikTok web page the place the previous coach has racked up 21.7K followers to date by posting brief clips from his YouTube movies.
On YouTube, despite the fact that Jon Gruden has solely been posting for two weeks, he has already picked up 114K+ subscribers and his movies are getting a whole bunch of 1000’s of views. Right here’s his newest the place (Spoiler Alert!!) he spends about half-hour breaking down the Thursday Evening Soccer matchup earlier than selecting who he thinks will win the sport:
If you happen to’d quite know the reply than watch 32 minutes of Gruden… He’s backing Aaron Rodgers on TNF. Will probably be fascinating to see how the NFL world welcomes Jon Gruden and his YouTube channel. Drew Brees was on his present simply 4 days in the past, so it’s not as if he’s being blackballed from the NFL world anymore in any respect:
Whereas there have been rumors that Jon Gruden is perhaps returning to teaching that doesn’t look like the case. He was seen at Chiefs coaching camp however Andy Reid cleared the air on that fairly shortly.
Invoice Belichick is now on YouTube. Jon Gruden is now on YouTube. These are bizarre occasions we’re dwelling in.
