Interference
How Organized Crime Influences Professional Football
Dan E. Moldea
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Description
A shocking exposé of widespread corruption and mob influence throughout the National Football League—on the field, in the owners’ boxes, and in the corporate suites
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.
“[Moldea] wrote perhaps the most important sports book in the history of the language. 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. . . . Moldea even exonerated some of the game’s more dubious characters, spending as much time debunking alleged crookedness as he did documenting the real thing.” —Keith Olbermann
“Interference shreds the sanctimonious NFL facade and exposes the league’s hierarchy for what it really is—a bunch of wheeler-dealers who are in bed with the very associations they publicly denounce. Fascinating reading.” —The Gold Sheet
“Mob contacts within the NFL appear to be as subtle and profitable as insider trading on Wall Street. . . . Learning about this ‘infiltration’ by Mafia players makes Moldea’s book quite a page-turner.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“This book, which details the influence of gambling and the link to organized crime in the NFL, is credible for one particular reason: It indicts the owners of the league more than the players and exposes the NFL for the gambling machine that it is.” —Rocky Mountain News
“Interference is like a hard-nosed fullback . . . packed with names, dates, and places, hitting the holes until the defense—one’s incredulity—gives way. The weight of evidence is overwhelming.” —Los Angeles Times
Dan E. Moldea, a specialist on organized-crime investigations since 1974, bestselling author, and independent journalist, has published eight nonfiction books: The Hoffa Wars: Teamsters, Rebels, Politicians and the Mob (1978); The Hunting of Cain: A True Story of Money, Greed and Fratricide (1983); Dark Victory: Ronald Reagan, MCA, and the Mob (1986); Interference: How Organized Crime Influences Professional Football (1989); The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy: An Investigation of Motive, Means, and Opportunity (1995); Evidence Dismissed: The Inside Story of the Police Investigation of O.J. Simpson (with Tom Lange and Philip Vannatter, 1997); A Washington Tragedy: How the Death of Vincent Foster Ignited a Political Firestorm (1998); and Confessions of a Guerrilla Writer: Adventures in the Jungles of Crime, Politics, and Journalism (2013). He is currently at work on his ninth true-crime book.

- $9.99
- Category: Football
- Published: Jun 10, 2014
- Publisher: Open Road Media
- Seller: OpenRoad Integrated Media, LLC
- Print Length: 509 Pages
- Language: English
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