How organized crime influences professional football forbidden bookshelf book 3 ebook. On fixing games and inside information i once asked pro football hall of fame quarterback len dawson of the kansas city chiefs whether the fact that his team s games had been taken off the betting boards by bookmakers across the country during the late 1960s was an indication that they were fixed. He is the author of books about the rise and fall of jimmy hoffa, the contract killing of an ohio businessman, the mafias penetration of hollywood and its links to ronald reagan, its influence on professional football. How organized crime influences professional football dan e. Moldea jfk assassination debate the education forum. How organized crime influences professional football moldea, dan e. This book will be used as fodder for people who think every ref is on the take and after reading the book i can see why. Sold by book4reading and ships from amazon fulfillment. Moldea wrote perhaps the most important sports book in the history of the language. In his classic expose, 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. Dan moldeas fourth book, interference, was released by william morrow. He painted the true and terrifying picture of a business whose movers and shakers seem to have more connections to gambling and the mob than to touchdowns and super bowls.
How organized crime influences professional football 1989. Moldea, for decades the national football league has had a strong and unspoken understanding with a dangerous. Interference how organized crime influences professional football. How organized crime influences professional football. Former allpro defensive back bernie parrish, an author of a 1971 book critical of the nfl whose playing career spanned.
Dawson replied, it would be a dangerous thing to fix a game. Moldea born february 27, 1950 is an american bestselling author and investigative journalist who has reported on organized crime and political corruption since 1974. Full text of international herald tribune, 1998, france. Moldea on the nfl, the mafia and fixed games youtube. The great keith olbermann interviews crime reporter dan moldea about the updated 2014 rerelease of his 1989 book, interference.
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