NAPA — Jon Gruden spent nine years on television in Monday Night Football and managed to avoid swearing on the air.
Through two episodes of HBO’s “Hard Knocks,” Gruden has been the central character and a largely uncensored one. HBO does a censored version that runs before 7 p.m to shield younger audience members from blue language.
The Raiders’ head coach turned 56 Saturday, and is getting after it verbally the same way he did when he was a kid coach with the Raiders in 1998 and as an assistant with Green Bay and Philadephia before that.