Gruden rules himself out

David Elfin The Washington Times - December 21, 2009, 07:59PM

Jon Gruden just took himself out of the running for the Redskins’ coaching job.

Asked by “Monday Night Football” colleague Mike Tirico about rejoining his old Oakland and Tampa Bay buddy Bruce Allen, now Washington’s new general manager, Gruden, “I’m not coaching [in the NFL in 2010]. The only team I’m coaching is my 13-year-old’s flag football team.”

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David Elfin

David Elfin has been following Washington-area sports teams since the late 1960s. David began his journalism career at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, the University of Pennsylvania (B.A., history) and Syracuse University (M.S., telecommunications). He wrote for the Bulletin (Philadelphia), the Post-Standard (Syracuse) and The Washington Post before coming to The Washington Times in 1986. He has covered colleges, the Orioles …

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