Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Glennster

macrumors 6502
Apr 30, 2014
417
69
Canada
Wouldn’t matter - the content was in email chains that could have been provided by anyone under investigation.
 

Kaspin

macrumors regular
Jan 15, 2015
100
44
From this nytimes article ( https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/12/sports/football/jon-gruden-emails-dan-snyder.html )

Part of the investigation, however, involved the review of the emails sent and received by Bruce Allen, the team’s longtime general manager and president, and a close confidant of Snyder, until Allen was fired in 2019. The review of Allen’s inbox and outbox is what ultimately led to Gruden’s resignation, and showed that Allen participated in inappropriate and offensive conversations, including the sharing of pornographic images.

...

Though Jon Gruden and Allen ceased being co-workers in 2008, they regularly chatted about N.F.L. matters by email. Gruden used a private email address while Allen used his official Washington Football Team account. Wilkinson’s investigation collected those emails, as well as hundreds of thousands of others, which were analyzed and discussed by the league, but not noted in any report.

So it appears that this came about from them investigating Allen, who was using an account administered by the nfl/franchise.
 
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.