 During his time in the Arena Football League (AFL), he won four ArenaBowls as a player and two more as a head coach.He is the younger brother of Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden, and was an assistant coach of the 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers team that won Super Bowl XXXVII.Of Slovene descent, Gruden was born in Tiffin, Ohio, and was raised a Roman Catholic.