I saw this when it first aired, just before I covered my first Super Bowl. I recall critical commentary at the time saying there were incomplete connections made in this documentary between organized crime and NFL owners, particularly with regard to the death of Carroll Rosenbloom. Nevertheless, with the NFL now in Las Vegas and the Super Bowl schedule to be played there soon, seeing this program through the prism of that hindsight is especially compelling.
"Jessica Beth Savitch (February 1, 1947 - October 23, 1983) was an American television journalist, best known for being the weekend anchor of NBC Nightly News and daily newsreader for NBC News during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The famous reporter died October 23, 1983, twenty days after her problematic NBC broadcast about the NFL." Source was Wikipedia. Explain the Teamsters loans Cowboys' Jerry Jones took out. Hahahaha . Now the current crap of a game being cancelled. What's going to happen during a playoff game, if a player gets hurt? You still report on the NFL? Hahahaha
Wow, helluva find! Before this upload, the only way you could get this was through the UNLV library, the only copy in the nation. Props and huge thank you for uploading this!
+Kevin Habich: Alot of the Frontline early episodes are rare to come by. I was surprised at how rare this episode was in particular...I was looking for this episode on search engines and then via library. But yea, once you find the episodes, they are worth finding as you can see.
Before this video was uploaded, the only public way to get it was the 1 copy at UNLV Library. PBS Frontline shop could have been a possible source too.
today (January 17th) is the anniversary of the first airing of this show. It's the 40th anniversary of Frontline. Glad I found this.....thanks for posting
The people that are so serious into the NFL that they break shit or hurt others when their team loses REALLY need to see this. It definitely changed my view of the game and sports in general. I still have teams but don't follow religiously anymore and honesty don't even care when they lose one bit.
You can't know what's real and what's staged, what's real and what's fixed, how much of the competition isn't actually rigged right up to and including championships. I haven't really followed football in general since the breaking of the CTE story and now have even less reason to ever follow the NFL again. And now you have to wonder about ALL professional sports, and you can't escape the sickening feeling that it's all rigged.
This was supposed to be a multi-part series and the rest was never aired. The long arm of the nfl put the kibosh on it. I'll wager (get it?) that the qb the guy in prison was talking about was Art Schlichter. (on a side note, Jessica Savitch died later in the year after this aired)
15:00 cops sure as hell don't go in like that anymore. Today there'd be a SWAT army in military gear, busting through the door, guns blazing, likely killing everything in sight...especially any dogs.
A legend. There is a book about her titled "Golden Girl", the life and times of Jessica Savitch which I saw at Barnes & Noble bookstore. That book is unfortunately out of print and you have to look far and wide to get a copy.
NFL Hall of Fame members Paul Hourning and Alex Karras were suspended for gambling for the season. Interesting documentary here. Seeing clips of players like Joe Montana, Dan Fouts, Lawrence Taylor, Ed too tall Jones et al. The mob and gambling go together like coffee and cream.
@@thunderlightning1980... Hi 🙂🌻✌️... Totally agree ... When the snare drum begins 🥁.... .. then turns into low tone horns🔊🔊🔊😵😱 ..then camera pans to the scary , dark streets of NYC🤔🤨😮😕😱😬... 😥😥😮. still chills through to the bones years after 'Taxi Driver ' ... also - in the beginning of this program ... the three notes of tuba that was featured in the original 'Twilight Zone' episode w / Larry Blyden .at the end ... (when Blyden's bad man character finally realized where he is for eternity😵 👺🏭🔥🔥⚡🔥♨️😵🤪😈😱) ... and Sebastian Cabot as 'Pip' ... - titled 'A Nice Place To Visit' .... .... still scary ... still sends chills as well ...👂🎶😕😲🤪😵🤯😂😂😂☺️🤗🙂
This is the type of the uploads I liked youtube before google bought it. We got this type of content instead of some algorithm. The copyright infringement was horredence though. Though this video is too. Video is bad, but you really have to search for it.
PBS made a Frontline documentary in 2013 with the help of ESPN. The NFL told ESPN to stop helping PBS or suffer the consequences, they complied. PBS still made the episode of Frontline, it was about a much more serious issue than sports gambling, CTE. PBS does what it wants, and it's taking on Daily Fantasy in 2016 against Draftkings/FanDuel/Pro Sports Leagues such as the NFL
@@newsman9539 The NFL rights were up in 2013. While ESPN was probably not going to lose the NFL rights, they likely would've gotten the C schedule had they continued to work with PBS.
+Davan Mani It's said that she died in a car accident. Her personal life was pretty messed up though; couldn't keep a man and had a serious drug problem. She was only about 36 when this aired but she looks much older.
Insane to think that the NFL and those involved with this have the gall to advertise sports books and betting during their games. Jessica was on to this 40 years ago and unfortunately paid the ultimate price for exposing the truth.
Fixing = Mob. Bookies = Public. 49 states outlawed gambling, and there needed to be low-level, mid-level and high-level bookies who brokered everything. We all had a bookie in college.
Textbook Rozelle:I don"t remember. You"ll have to ask NFL Security because I"m not involved,etc. NFL commissioners are beholden to the interests of the owners and Rozelle was especially, being hand picked by Rosenbloom, one of football's shadier owners after being a PR man for the Rams. Of course he went after Namath, probably goaded by Rosenbloom who forever hated the Jets after Super Bowl 3.
Dave you couldn't have been more correct with this assertion on Rozelle! Rozelle was a shill for the arrogant, narcissistic, dirtbag NFL owners of that era. So glad I got to see them get their comeuppance in Super Bowls 3 & 4. All of it very well written! Long Live the AFL!
@@Chiefsfansince-qb1kt Green Bay Packers legend Paul Horning was associated with bookmakers and was suspended for the 1963 season. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1986.
@@frankdenardo8684 Yes, I remember reading about his forays into the dark world of gamblers and how it cost him part of his career. Not surprised, as the sports world has always had shady characters hanging around on the periphery, waiting for an opportunity to snare a naive athlete with the promise of a fortune in exchange for on the field/court/ice favors. Part of me believes that if the owners paid the athletes a better wage in those times, the athletes wouldn't have been as tempted to get involved, but the owners were some of the worst gamblers that ever existed in the sports world, especially some of the NFL owners. Thanks for the info Frank.
As a Packers' fan, born in 1981, I guarantee Rosenblum sold out the Colts in 1965. There's absolutely no way both back judges deemed that ball "good". This is the definition of evil. I'll add that he sold out his dominant squad against an inferior Jets' team in 1969.
Iceman Richard Kucklinsky in one of his HBO Episodes claimed he sprayed some female reporters food with cyanide. She apparently upset the boys with a story that aired. they found her car in a ditch. He said Put two and two together and you have four
It was a coalition of both the NFL and the Mafia that killed her. She was a threat to the long term stability of the NFL and she paid the price for that report with her life.
@@Mystic0157 Oh, nothing. Just that an autopsy revealed that Savitch, an alcoholic, was not drunk at the time of death. And that she had dinner with and interviewed former Eagles owner Leonard Tose, a well known gambler, before her death.
In Britain we have bookies on every street because it's a lucrative industry which the Government generates huge tax from. We now have millions of people (mostly poor) whom are addicted to gambling. Just saying..
Funny they showed the lady and the guy who were a focal point in the Movie Casino, the lady was executed to stop the buy problem with the Tangiers.....interesting though the names in the movie were changed the stuff did happen.
Pete Rozelle, was the Rams general manager before becoming commissioner of the NFL, I wouldn't trust his mouth either, all these individuals are in bed together.
Sports betting has come a long way since then, and with online betting in 30 states as of 2022, states and sports leagues see the revenue that online betting making almost 5 billion per year that they've to get their piece of the action.
I always wondered why Stabler was traded out of the blue to the Houston Oilers. With a lot pressure from the fans, Stabler was finally placed in the Pro Football Hall of fame posthumously. Hey, a lot of these guys were dirty. This is why I stopped betting (cold turkey )on football years ago.
You're too strong! I still bet on the games. The only thing is that I've stopped using my heart and started looking at it like it is...a fix! Maybe I should quit while I'm ahead? LOL!
Aiche Jaye yes.....agreed......wondered why Kenny and Dave Casper were traded......and always wondered why hank stram....and George Allen were blackballed by the NFL
This very report is an attempt to placate all football fans worldwide ... 'there are rules in place ' ... maybe so ... doesn't mean they are followed .😂.. no point to rules .😒🙄🤨😮.. All nfl persons think rules don't apply to them 😤🤑😤😤☹️😠 .... players😤🤑😤 , owners😤🤑😤 , franchisees😤🤑😤😤🤑🤑🤑 ... just my humble opinion ... all are corrupt 🤑🤑🤑😭to the core ... 😔🖤🖤🖤🧠👺👹👺👹🤡🤡🤡💀👿😈🤪😠..😭. ☯️☯️☯️
Betting on sports is legal everywhere in the U.S. now ... if unknown entities did murder her ... it was for nothing .🤨🤔😣.. because it's legal now... 😔😔😭☹️😩🤯😬
This channel has made a claim that this episode aired only once then vanished. After looking at newspaper articles from the time - it aired multiple times. All the way into march.
+Gary T Well, the difference between now and then is that the mob has been essentially pushed out of Las Vegas, and owners are now so wealthy that they do not need ties with bookies or the mob. And because players are payed so much more, there is less incentive for them to risk their careers by altering the outcome of a game. It was surprising to learn that so many owners had associations with shady characters. We do know that Eddie Debartolo was suspended as owner of the 49ers because of his associations with gambling operations, and that franchise now is in the hands of his sister, and her family.
Gary T I agree with your first sentence, largely due to efforts on the part of the Federal Government (passing the RICO statutes, for example) to pursue organized crime. That did not mean, however, that there were some in the FBI who were still using mob leaders as informants, even as those leaders were committing murder (as in the Whitey Bulger case). As for the rest of your post, what do you mean by the NFL? Are you talking about the League Office, and the three modern era Commissioners, Pete Rozelle, Paul Tagliabue, and Roger Goodell? Or are you talking about the various owners, coaches, players, of the various teams that comprise the NFL? These are two different things. And I honestly don't KNOW the answer to that question, though I suspect that organized crime has less of a role than it did in the past. Players are less apt to be tempted, because they are paid much better than they were in the past, when they often had to have an off-season job. Doubtless other owners have seen what happened with the 49ers, and don't want to risk what has become a huge investment. Teams are worth a LOT more than they used to be. But for an owner to be actively betting against his own team had to be a very serious concern. (Just ask Pete Rose what happens in baseball if your betting on your own team). And government policymakers, whose job it is to regulate the gambling agency, are now taking a close look at some of these fantasy league sites, concerned about the large amount of money involved. I think the NFL has less to worry about here, because it is not tied directly to who won or lost a game, just what a certain group of players from different teams did, based on their personal stats. Whether their team won the game is irrelevant. I would hope that the League is doing what it can to police this sort of activity, which is FAR more important than the inflation level of footballs. And while I think there are fewer connections than in the past, I think there should still be concern over scalping of Superbowl tickets, and I have to say that I don't have a great deal of confidence in the current Commissioner, who seems to be incompetent, and shows poor judgment. He has a very difficult time understanding which issues are serious, and which are trivial.
So the boys fixed games in 1968 and 69. Players weren't making dick then. I think fewer players who are in a position to affect the outcome of a game would be willing to sacrifice their multi-million dollar salaries they make to rig an NFL game now. They're probably better off trying to get college players to shave points.
The nfl is a script and You only need a few players from each team and the refs involved for it to work...These guys can't get anything close to the money the NFL offers them to keep quiet on how they successfully influence the outcomes of games or control completely when necessary (i.e. a major upset where a team like the giant beat the patriots in the superbowl)
@@KafkasSole personally I don’t think you’d even have to script it or have any players involved at all. The refs can kill a drive with a flag on any third down play. Even if a player realizes what’s going on while still playing what do they really care, they’ve made a small fortune. It’s not about legacies and winning in the end it’s about money.
I think it's funny they have a disclaimer at the beginning about not allowing children to watch. No child on this planet wants to watch a documentary on PBS. What children, exactly, are they addressing?
alot innuendo and little facts,however,interesting and worth a watch.especially the jake Scott segment who was rumored to be on the take and is not in the HoF though he was a great safrey.
Another interesting touch here is the host, Jessica Savitch. Wasn't she the one who was drunk on the air and fired? She died in a car wreck the same year this documentary was made.
Shabba6884 She offended very powerful people who would stop at nothing re retribution.For instance,Clint Murchison the then owner of the Cowboys is alleged by many sources to be among the people responsible for the killing of JFK.How easy it would be to do away with one little female reporter?
+John Antinora If you look at the circumstances of her death, it does not look like a mob hit. If it was, then her driver, who was responsible for causing them to end up trapped upside down in a ditch, with no way of escaping. The driver died as well. Not exactly the choice a hitman would make.
Americans are so ridiculously conservative. Even today, Americans view gambling as a "horrible" act. The rest of the world laughs at the USA and its "puritan" judicial system.
It's a horrible act when someone lies to you and brands something as "All-American"...and.."wholesome".It's nothing wrong, in my opinion, to put money on a game where you know the contestants are using their skill to determine the outcome. But you and I know damn well there is so much cash involved, other factors (Mafia, crooked refs and players, network money, regional biases, draft scams, lopsided trades) will skew the results.You fuck with a lot of people, especially the youth's heads! and not is the definition of horrible. But I'm no longer jaded.
“Frontline” as an institution and “Frontline’s” reporting on the NFL in this episode have all the credibility of an Oliver Stone movie. Lamentable that a good journalist such as Savitch would get involved in launching “Frontline.”
great documentary but I would love to see the one advertised for "next "week" about the terrorist group, and why they stil exist, and why they openly backed an unqualified candidate for president and nothing was ever made of this in the m eida? for those of you that don't know, i'm talking aobut the klan
these uploads are historical treasures
I saw this when it first aired, just before I covered my first Super Bowl. I recall critical commentary at the time saying there were incomplete connections made in this documentary between organized crime and NFL owners, particularly with regard to the death of Carroll Rosenbloom. Nevertheless, with the NFL now in Las Vegas and the Super Bowl schedule to be played there soon, seeing this program through the prism of that hindsight is especially compelling.
"Jessica Beth Savitch (February 1, 1947 - October 23, 1983) was an American television journalist, best known for being the weekend anchor of NBC Nightly News and daily newsreader for NBC News during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The famous reporter died October 23, 1983, twenty days after her problematic NBC broadcast about the NFL." Source was Wikipedia.
Explain the Teamsters loans Cowboys' Jerry Jones took out. Hahahaha . Now the current crap of a game being cancelled. What's going to happen during a playoff game, if a player gets hurt? You still report on the NFL? Hahahaha
@@fastsetinthewest this was before Jerry owned the Cowboys
Wow, helluva find! Before this upload, the only way you could get this was through the UNLV library, the only copy in the nation. Props and huge thank you for uploading this!
+Kevin Habich: Alot of the Frontline early episodes are rare to come by. I was surprised at how rare this episode was in particular...I was looking for this episode on search engines and then via library. But yea, once you find the episodes, they are worth finding as you can see.
Jason were early episodes wiped?
Jason were early episodes wiped?
Before this video was uploaded, the only public way to get it was the 1 copy at UNLV Library. PBS Frontline shop could have been a possible source too.
+Jason Hart Ok. Curious because networks wiped programs in those days as well. And this is the first Frontline I've seen with Jessica Savitch.
today (January 17th) is the anniversary of the first airing of this show. It's the 40th anniversary of Frontline. Glad I found this.....thanks for posting
Thanks for uploading this. I’d love to see more of these early 1980’s Frontline videos.
The people that are so serious into the NFL that they break shit or hurt others when their team loses REALLY need to see this.
It definitely changed my view of the game and sports in general.
I still have teams but don't follow religiously anymore and honesty don't even care when they lose one bit.
You can't know what's real and what's staged, what's real and what's fixed, how much of the competition isn't actually rigged right up to and including championships. I haven't really followed football in general since the breaking of the CTE story and now have even less reason to ever follow the NFL again. And now you have to wonder about ALL professional sports, and you can't escape the sickening feeling that it's all rigged.
Been looking for this for years and years, thank you thank you thank you
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That officer saying "Bobby you're under arrest" at 15:10 was the smoothest thing ever lol
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I always wondered why hank stram......and George Allen were blackballed by the nfl
The first episode of Frontline aired on January 17, 1983 on PBS entitled "An Authorized History of the NFL".🙂
Excellent documentary here. Frontline is also an investigative reports show.
This was supposed to be a multi-part series and the rest was never aired. The long arm of the nfl put the kibosh on it. I'll wager (get it?) that the qb the guy in prison was talking about was Art Schlichter. (on a side note, Jessica Savitch died later in the year after this aired)
15:00 cops sure as hell don't go in like that anymore. Today there'd be a SWAT army in military gear, busting through the door, guns blazing, likely killing everything in sight...especially any dogs.
It’s bc he’s white
Thank you, John! Sports television guys like Jimmy The Greek Snyder of CBS and Chet Forte of ABC all had ties to bookies in their past.
I read about the that.
What is interesting is what Jimmy the Greek Snyder said about Black Athletes.
@@thunderlightning1980 Chet Forte was convicted of income tax evasion, mail, and wire fraud. He passed away in 1996 after a lengthy illness.
@@thunderlightning1980 Jimmy was dismissed by CBS in 1987
Didn’t Jessica Savitch die under mysterious circumstances?
Love these old docs!
I remember watching this when it was first on TV thanks for posting, it has been many decades
I got to give props where it's due. Jessica Savitch nailed it on this one.
She died later in the year this was aired.
Florio mentioned this on PFT today. Wow!
This is the first episode of Frontline... 40 years ago tomorrow.
here it is. the first frontline episode.
RIP Savich, she will be missed
A legend. There is a book about her titled "Golden Girl", the life and times of Jessica Savitch which I saw at Barnes & Noble bookstore. That book is unfortunately out of print and you have to look far and wide to get a copy.
NFL Hall of Fame members Paul Hourning and Alex Karras were suspended for gambling for the season. Interesting documentary here. Seeing clips of players like Joe Montana, Dan Fouts, Lawrence Taylor, Ed too tall Jones et al.
The mob and gambling go together like coffee and cream.
John,, you're awesome! This is profound. For the past 4 years, I have been so skeptical of entertainment. I'm awake now!
50:30 Carlos Marcello's niece was my 4th grade teacher at Gretna No. 2 elementary school. 1966/7.
Who’s watching this gem in 2022? 🙋♂️ love me some Frontline
...nice touch by Frontline adding Bernard Herrmann's "Taxi Driver" score in the background.
Which song?
@@thunderlightning1980... Hi 🙂🌻✌️... Totally agree ... When the snare drum begins 🥁.... .. then turns into low tone horns🔊🔊🔊😵😱 ..then camera pans to the scary , dark streets of NYC🤔🤨😮😕😱😬... 😥😥😮. still chills through to the bones years after 'Taxi Driver ' ... also - in the beginning of this program ... the three notes of tuba that was featured in the original 'Twilight Zone' episode w / Larry Blyden .at the end ... (when Blyden's bad man character finally realized where he is for eternity😵 👺🏭🔥🔥⚡🔥♨️😵🤪😈😱) ... and Sebastian Cabot as 'Pip' ... - titled 'A Nice Place To Visit' .... .... still scary ... still sends chills as well ...👂🎶😕😲🤪😵🤯😂😂😂☺️🤗🙂
One of the first Frontline Documentaries great find I hope they can post some others from the past
There's more out there than first thought. I'll try to track some of them down
This is the first episode .... 💪🤳🤞🖖✌️. 🙏😔☯️☮️🇺🇸
I was wondering about the "graphic sequence" they were warning about. It was a picture of NFL owner Carroll Rosenbloom after his death around 35:50.
Yes.
Watching this , definteley changes how i look at the current nfl.🙊🙉🙈
This is the type of the uploads I liked youtube before google bought it. We got this type of content instead of some algorithm. The copyright infringement was horredence though. Though this video is too. Video is bad, but you really have to search for it.
I doubt the NFL would let PBS do this again.
The NFL has done everything in its power to destroy all footage of this
PBS made a Frontline documentary in 2013 with the help of ESPN. The NFL told ESPN to stop helping PBS or suffer the consequences, they complied. PBS still made the episode of Frontline, it was about a much more serious issue than sports gambling, CTE. PBS does what it wants, and it's taking on Daily Fantasy in 2016 against Draftkings/FanDuel/Pro Sports Leagues such as the NFL
Wouldn't NFL resistance to this kind of story be an admission of guilt? Obviously
@@de132 what was the consequence if ESPN continued to helped PBS with Frontline?
@@newsman9539 The NFL rights were up in 2013. While ESPN was probably not going to lose the NFL rights, they likely would've gotten the C schedule had they continued to work with PBS.
This reminds me of Art Schlichter. Aaaaand a google search indicates he’s behind bars AGAIN.
He was a scapegoat.
Art Schlichter was a scapegoat.
shortly after this aired Jessica Savitch "sleeps with the fishes"
The NFL is one of those giant sports companies that is a monopoly, but never comes up when people talk about monopolies.
Not really
XFL is back
Rosenbloom's corpse creeps me out.
Geez, Rozelle is protecting these owners.
lol that's who hired him.
@@thegreenbird795 yeap. Mostly, owners are the ones who hire the commissioners.
Jessica Savitch passed away nine months after this was broadcasted.
After watching this, I sort of wonder about Jessica's death.
+Davan Mani
It's said that she died in a car accident. Her personal life was pretty messed up though; couldn't keep a man and had a serious drug problem. She was only about 36 when this aired but she looks much older.
Idan Solon And NewsHour's Judy Woodruff was a second anchor, and regularly was a sub for Jim Lehrer. #FrontlinePBS
She died in an auto accident. Accident my ass.
Yeah she is a rugged 36. Some women just age rough.
Spilotro was in Casino, that's wild
We should mention Frank lefty Rosenthal, Alan Glick, Alan Dorfman
Raiders in Las Vegas is a horrid idea
Juan Guy as well as any team in any sport in Vegas!!
Amen.
@@mrmgr690 most people go to Las Vegas to gamble at the casino.
Insane to think that the NFL and those involved with this have the gall to advertise sports books and betting during their games. Jessica was on to this 40 years ago and unfortunately paid the ultimate price for exposing the truth.
Jessica Savitch (1947-1983)
Fixing = Mob. Bookies = Public. 49 states outlawed gambling, and there needed to be low-level, mid-level and high-level bookies who brokered everything. We all had a bookie in college.
Also RIP Jessica Savitch. She left us too young, too soon 🙏🏼.
Textbook Rozelle:I don"t remember. You"ll have to ask NFL Security because I"m not involved,etc. NFL commissioners are beholden to the interests of the owners and Rozelle was especially, being hand picked by Rosenbloom, one of football's shadier owners after being a PR man for the Rams. Of course he went after Namath, probably goaded by Rosenbloom who forever hated the Jets after Super Bowl 3.
Dave you couldn't have been more correct with this assertion on Rozelle! Rozelle was a shill for the arrogant, narcissistic, dirtbag NFL owners of that era. So glad I got to see them get their comeuppance in Super Bowls 3 & 4. All of it very well written! Long Live the AFL!
@@Chiefsfansince-qb1kt Green Bay Packers legend Paul Horning was associated with bookmakers and was suspended for the 1963 season. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1986.
@@frankdenardo8684 Yes, I remember reading about his forays into the dark world of gamblers and how it cost him part of his career. Not surprised, as the sports world has always had shady characters hanging around on the periphery, waiting for an opportunity to snare a naive athlete with the promise of a fortune in exchange for on the field/court/ice favors. Part of me believes that if the owners paid the athletes a better wage in those times, the athletes wouldn't have been as tempted to get involved, but the owners were some of the worst gamblers that ever existed in the sports world, especially some of the NFL owners.
Thanks for the info Frank.
Personally, I believe Super Bowl three fixed.
As a Packers' fan, born in 1981, I guarantee Rosenblum sold out the Colts in 1965.
There's absolutely no way both back judges deemed that ball "good". This is the definition of evil.
I'll add that he sold out his dominant squad against an inferior Jets' team in 1969.
She died mysteriously the same year this was broadcast.Was there a message?
Nothing mysterious about a car accident in which alcohol may have been involved.
Iceman Richard Kucklinsky in one of his HBO Episodes claimed he sprayed some female reporters food with cyanide. She apparently upset the boys with a story that aired. they found her car in a ditch. He said
Put two and two together and you have four
It's indeed possible.This is a rotten world.
@Masterhab no, she was MURDERED.
@@bills9530 Truth
Jessica Savitch was murdered months after this episode--The Mafia killed her..
It was a coalition of both the NFL and the Mafia that killed her. She was a threat to the long term stability of the NFL and she paid the price for that report with her life.
Care to elaborate on your rampant speculation?
@@Mystic0157 Oh, nothing. Just that an autopsy revealed that Savitch, an alcoholic, was not drunk at the time of death. And that she had dinner with and interviewed former Eagles owner Leonard Tose, a well known gambler, before her death.
And The Kkk Nazi For The Second Show Tilted 88 Seconds In Greensboro
Ms. Savitch was a damn good reporter...She is walking over Jimmy Hoffa at Giants Stadium...
88 seconds in Greensboro? That weird. In neo Nazi circles, 88 has always been numerology for "heil hitler", since H is the 8th letter of the alphabet.
Anyone know the music at 46:45? That's some great funk! Also, wow, what a documentary, nothing like this is on the air today.
curtis mayfield poppa was a rolling stone
@@4ws_ Thank you very much!
@@Geferulf_TAS Its the temptations not Curtis Mayfield
@@4ws_ Yep found it. Thank you though I had no idea what it was and Shazam couldnt detect it.
In Britain we have bookies on every street because it's a lucrative industry which the Government generates huge tax from.
We now have millions of people (mostly poor) whom are addicted to gambling.
Just saying..
Funny they showed the lady and the guy who were a focal point in the Movie Casino, the lady was executed to stop the buy problem with the Tangiers.....interesting though the names in the movie were changed the stuff did happen.
They mentioned Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal, Anthony Spilatro, Alan Glick. Jake Scott was Super Bowl VII MVP, he played free safety.
Tony Spilotro was changed to Nicky Santoro and the Stardust was changed to the Tangiers for the movie.
Raider Nation has always known this.....
Apparently, cold feet walked away from a hot trail.
Pete Rozelle, was the Rams general manager before becoming commissioner of the NFL, I wouldn't trust his mouth either, all these individuals are in bed together.
Roselle was such a weasel
The tub scene is hilarious.
Sports betting has come a long way since then, and with online betting in 30 states as of 2022, states and sports leagues see the revenue that online betting making almost 5 billion per year that they've to get their piece of the action.
Rosenbloom was killed by the mafia.
I always wondered why Stabler was traded out of the blue to the Houston Oilers. With a lot pressure from the fans, Stabler was finally placed in the Pro Football Hall of fame posthumously. Hey, a lot of these guys were dirty. This is why I stopped betting (cold turkey )on football years ago.
You're too strong! I still bet on the games. The only thing is that I've stopped using my heart and started looking at it like it is...a fix! Maybe I should quit while I'm ahead? LOL!
Aiche Jaye yes.....agreed......wondered why Kenny and Dave Casper were traded......and always wondered why hank stram....and George Allen were blackballed by the NFL
Go Texans
22:20 The Chicago mobs vs the New York mobs
17:20 And there it is
At 4:27, the gambler reminds me of Bernie Madoff with a mustache.
Now you see why the first team in football is in Chicago!
Yes, people are sinful as the default. Self absorbed and greedy. It takes great daily, moment-by-moment effort to fight this urge.
@@antinora3265 exactly.
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Straight classic
Does anyone know any books or articles that expand on this and are up to date?
Book by Daniel E Moldea
INTERFERENCE
How Organized Crime Influences Professional Football
A web site I found called "The Fix is In"
Great website
In 1986 David Harris wrote The League: The Rise and Decline of the NFL. It was very thorough in its reporting of this story and plenty of others.
This channel has made a claim that this episode aired only once then vanished. After looking at newspaper articles from the time - it aired multiple times. All the way into march.
That time frame was its initial release on broadcast tv, then pulled and never shown again.
WDCN CHANNEL 8 NASHVILLE.
very interesting
If you're interested in the NFL, don't watch this. If you are interested in gambling and the mafia, watch this.
44:50 No It Was Allen Gilck And Al Davis
The old L.A. fans talk greatness about Rosenbloom never bring this stuff up.
The Title of this is Wrong . It should be an Unauthorized History of Gambling and the Mafia ,,
+Gary T www.imdb.com/title/tt0822890/ Enjoy!
It is NOT the NFL's Fault that Illegal Gambling is in Every Sport ... and Growing, It is now advertised on TV and the Internet ..
+Gary T Well, the difference between now and then is that the mob has been essentially pushed out of Las Vegas, and owners are now so wealthy that they do not need ties with bookies or the mob. And because players are payed so much more, there is less incentive for them to risk their careers by altering the outcome of a game.
It was surprising to learn that so many owners had associations with shady characters.
We do know that Eddie Debartolo was suspended as owner of the 49ers because of his associations with gambling operations, and that franchise now is in the hands of his sister, and her family.
Las Vegas has nothing to do with it Now..,, and your trying to accuse the NFL suppots the issue
Gary T
I agree with your first sentence, largely due to efforts on the part of the Federal Government (passing the RICO statutes, for example) to pursue organized crime. That did not mean, however, that there were some in the FBI who were still using mob leaders as informants, even as those leaders were committing murder (as in the Whitey Bulger case).
As for the rest of your post, what do you mean by the NFL? Are you talking about the League Office, and the three modern era Commissioners, Pete Rozelle, Paul Tagliabue, and Roger Goodell?
Or are you talking about the various owners, coaches, players, of the various teams that comprise the NFL?
These are two different things. And I honestly don't KNOW the answer to that question, though I suspect that organized crime has less of a role than it did in the past.
Players are less apt to be tempted, because they are paid much better than they were in the past, when they often had to have an off-season job. Doubtless other owners have seen what happened with the 49ers, and don't want to risk what has become a huge investment. Teams are worth a LOT more than they used to be. But for an owner to be actively betting against his own team had to be a very serious concern. (Just ask Pete Rose what happens in baseball if your betting on your own team).
And government policymakers, whose job it is to regulate the gambling agency, are now taking a close look at some of these fantasy league sites, concerned about the large amount of money involved.
I think the NFL has less to worry about here, because it is not tied directly to who won or lost a game, just what a certain group of players from different teams did, based on their personal stats. Whether their team won the game is irrelevant.
I would hope that the League is doing what it can to police this sort of activity, which is FAR more important than the inflation level of footballs. And while I think there are fewer connections than in the past, I think there should still be concern over scalping of Superbowl tickets, and I have to say that I don't have a great deal of confidence in the current Commissioner, who seems to be incompetent, and shows poor judgment. He has a very difficult time understanding which issues are serious, and which are trivial.
So the boys fixed games in 1968 and 69. Players weren't making dick then. I think fewer players who are in a position to affect the outcome of a game would be willing to sacrifice their multi-million dollar salaries they make to rig an NFL game now.
They're probably better off trying to get college players to shave points.
The nfl is a script and You only need a few players from each team and the refs involved for it to work...These guys can't get anything close to the money the NFL offers them to keep quiet on how they successfully influence the outcomes of games or control completely when necessary (i.e. a major upset where a team like the giant beat the patriots in the superbowl)
@@KafkasSole personally I don’t think you’d even have to script it or have any players involved at all. The refs can kill a drive with a flag on any third down play. Even if a player realizes what’s going on while still playing what do they really care, they’ve made a small fortune. It’s not about legacies and winning in the end it’s about money.
I think it's funny they have a disclaimer at the beginning about not allowing children to watch.
No child on this planet wants to watch a documentary on PBS.
What children, exactly, are they addressing?
That was the days when there were only five or six channels to choose from and Daddy chose what the rest of the family watched, period.
Little Toni Rosario, that's who.
alot innuendo and little facts,however,interesting and worth a watch.especially the jake Scott segment who was rumored to be on the take and is not in the HoF though he was a great safrey.
Jessica Savage? I thought she was with NBC?
She was. And she did Frontline until she died. Judy Woodruff took over after that.
Another interesting touch here is the host, Jessica Savitch. Wasn't she the one who was drunk on the air and fired? She died in a car wreck the same year this documentary was made.
Shabba6884 Allegedly she was knocked off.
Shabba6884 She offended very powerful people who would stop at nothing re retribution.For instance,Clint Murchison the then owner of the Cowboys is alleged by many sources to be among the people responsible for the killing of JFK.How easy it would be to do away with one little female reporter?
+John Antinora If you look at the circumstances of her death, it does not look like a mob hit. If it was, then her driver, who was responsible for causing them to end up trapped upside down in a ditch, with no way of escaping. The driver died as well. Not exactly the choice a hitman would make.
+docsmithdc . . .. and she died only a month before the 20 year anniversary of JFK's death. I bet she was in on it!
+SixtyThree Kraft I don't understand your reply.Please explain.
this is a very good and informative show, but it's absolutely no surprise gambling on football (or any sport) is huge, and that gangsters run it.
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classic
Savitch was murdered. She was getting to close to the NFL. Hell, they had to remove her. Now look at the MLB and steroids from 1987-2000.
Yeah, the good days of baseball....
Until someone is breaking the all-time homerun record.
KT sports x radio kdwn very 1st episode of front line I watched it when it 1st aired you have to laugh KT if you know what I mean
Go Texans
Americans are so ridiculously conservative. Even today, Americans view gambling as a "horrible" act. The rest of the world laughs at the USA and its "puritan" judicial system.
Yes, the entire world is laughing. Like China, North Korea, the Middle East, all of which have WONDERFUL judicial systems.
It's a horrible act when someone lies to you and brands something as "All-American"...and.."wholesome".It's nothing wrong, in my opinion, to put money on a game where you know the contestants are using their skill to determine the outcome. But you and I know damn well there is so much cash involved, other factors (Mafia, crooked refs and players, network money, regional biases, draft scams, lopsided trades) will skew the results.You fuck with a lot of people, especially the youth's heads! and not is the definition of horrible. But I'm no longer jaded.
“Frontline” as an institution and “Frontline’s” reporting on the NFL in this episode have all the credibility of an Oliver Stone movie. Lamentable that a good journalist such as Savitch would get involved in launching “Frontline.”
great documentary but I would love to see the one advertised for "next "week" about the terrorist group, and why they stil exist, and why they openly backed an unqualified candidate for president and nothing was ever made of this in the m eida? for those of you that don't know, i'm talking aobut the klan