The NFL: A Dead Owner, A Dead Gangster, A League Founded on Gambling

DISGRACELAND

Jake Brennan

True Crime, Music, Society & Culture

4.6 • 13.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The image of the National Football League is one of integrity. It’s a squeaky clean brand that NFL commissioners have gone to great lengths to protect. This episode tells the story of a different NFL; the mystery of a dead team owner, gambling, mob-adjacent hall of fame league founders, and murdered bagmen are all part of the history of America’s pastime. There's more about the dark origins of the NFL coming to your feed on Thursday in the After Party bonus episode. We want to know: Which athlete in the history of sports has been the biggest disgrace and why? Let us know and join the party at 617-906-6638, [email protected], or on socials @disgracelandpod. To see the full list of contributors, see the show notes at www.disgracelandpod.com. To listen to Disgraceland ad free and get access to a monthly exclusive episode, weekly bonus content and more, become a Disgraceland All Access member at disgracelandpod.com/membership. Visit www.disgracelandpod.com/merch to see the latest Disgraceland merch! Sign up for our newsletter and get the inside dirt on events, merch and other awesomeness - GET THE NEWSLETTER Follow Jake and DISGRACELAND: Instagram YouTube X (formerly Twitter) Facebook Fan Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Double Elvis.
0:08.0	Disgraceland is brought to you by Disgraceland All Access.
0:11.6	Visit Disgraceland pod.
0:13.2	com slash membership, or just click on the link in the show notes for this episode.
0:17.6	Disgrace land is a production of Double Elvis. The stories about the origins of the NFL are insane.
0:38.0	They involve mobsters, bag men, and degenerate gamblers, alleged corruption at the highest level, a body in the
0:46.7	trunk of a Rolls-Royce, a body on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean, and a federal investigation into the men behind some of the greatest sports
0:55.8	moments of all time.
0:58.1	Moments it seemed like poetry in motion, comparable to some of the greatest music ever made.
1:04.0	Unlike that loop I played for you at the top of the show.
1:08.0	That wasn't great music.
1:10.0	That was a preset loop from my melotron called Yankee Hotel Chacha, MK2.
1:18.1	I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to another brick in the wall part two by Pink Floyd.
1:25.0	And why would I play you that specific slice of School Boy Uprising Cheese?
1:32.0	Could I afford it?
1:34.4	Because that was the number one song in America
1:38.0	on April 2, 1980.
1:40.6	And that was the day that Carol Rosenblum, owner of the Los Angeles Rams, and a man at the center of a federal investigation into the NFL, drowned mysteriously in the Atlantic Ocean.
1:53.0	On this episode, mobsters, bag men,
1:57.0	degenerate gamblers, corruption, murder,
2:00.0	and the criminal origins of America's favorite pastime, the NFL.
2:05.0	I'm Jake Brennan and this is Disgraceland. disgrace land. Oh, The two Los Angeles detectives stood in the North Hollywood garage shivering.
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