
Interference
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According to investigative journalist Dan E. Moldea, for decades the National Football League has had a strong and unspoken understanding with a dangerous institution: organized crime. In his classic exposé, Interference, Moldea bares the dark, sordid underbelly of America's favorite professional team sport, revealing a nest of corruption that the league has largely ignored since its inception.
Based on intensive research and in-depth interviews with coaches, players, mobsters, bookies, gamblers, referees, and league officials-including some of the sport's all-time greats-the author's shocking allegations suggest that the betting line is firmly in the hands of the mob, who occasionally manipulate the on-field action for maximum profit. Interference chronicles a long-standing history of gambling, drugs, and extortion, of point-shaving and game-fixing, and reveals the eye-opening truth about numerous gridiron contests where the final results were determined even before the kickoff. Moldea exposes the mob connections of many of the team owners and their startling complicity in illegal gambling operations, while showing how NFL internal security has managed to quash nearly every investigation into illegality and corruption within the professional football world before it could get off the ground. Provocative, disturbing, and controversial, Interference is a must-read for football fans and detractors alike, offering indisputable proof that what's really happening on the field, in the locker room, and behind the scenes is a whole different ball game.
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Content
- Intro
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Prologue: Dealing with Myths
- 1. On Fixing Games and Inside Information
- 2. Getting Organized
- 3. The Old Days with the Old Gang
- 4. The Baugh Surveillance
- 5. The Big Fix
- 6. The Wire Services
- 7. Boss Colt
- 8. Growing Pains
- 9. Winning Some and Losing Some
- 10. A New Commissioner
- 11. Murchison, Modell, and Ford Buy In
- 12. The Gambling Scandal Erupts
- 13. The Party Bus
- 14. Rosenbloom in the Bahamas
- 15. Football and Hollywood
- 16. "The Quarterback"
- 17. Gil Beckley and the Layoff
- 18. Bill Hundley and NFL Security
- 19. Seven Arts, Bobby Baker, and Mary Carter
- 20. The Kansas City Shuffle
- 21. The Outlaw Line
- 22. Broadway Joe
- 23. Lenny Dawson on the Brink
- 24. Restaurants and Hotels
- 25. The Heir Apparent
- 26. "Points of Contact"
- 27. Operation Anvil
- 28. Façades of Legitimacy
- 29. Foreshadowing a Drug Problem
- 30. The Bad, the Worse, and the Ugly
- 31. Davis's Dilemma
- 32. Colonel Culverhouse and Major Realty
- 33. On the Principal Subjects List
- 34. The Quiet Man
- 35. More Players and Bookmakers
- 36. Car Dealers' Bonanza
- 37. The Bagman
- 38. Rosenbloom's Fatal Swim
- 39. Cobra in a Sunbonnet
- 40. At War: Rosenthal and Spilotro
- 41. Appearances and Realities
- 42. Cranking Up the Drug Problem
- 43. The Frontline Controversy
- 44. The Double Standard
- 45. Gambling or Drugs?
- 46. The Computer Group
- 47. Oddsmaker
- 48. "I'm so fucking glad I'm out"
- 49. Trouble in Paradise
- 50. Rozelle Gets Tough on Players
- 51. Crime and Punishment
- 52. The Las Vegas and Outlaw Lines Today
- Epilogue: On Legalizing Sports Gambling
- Afterword
- Notes to Afterword
- Notes
- Index
- Glossary
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright Page
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