Ex-Mobster Reveals Shocking Details of Trapping an NFL Player to Blow Games to Pay Debt

Former mobster Michael Franzese is all over the news, after he admitted the Colombo crime family once trapped a former New York Jets player to blow games in exchange for paying off his debt.

In a recent interview, Franzese recounted how a New York Jets player, whom he declined to name, became entangled in a high-stakes gambling operation run by the mob during the 1980s. Franzese said the player initially owed just $50,000, but a mob-connected bookmaker saw an opportunity to tighten the grip.

“He’s a bad gambler,” Franzese recalled the bookmaker saying. “Let him get into you heavy, then bring him to me.”

The debt would go-up quickly and Franzese actually called him a bad gambler.

“You don’t get away with a gambling debt,” he told him. “You’re going to pay me.”

According to Franzese, the threat wasn’t just financial. He detailed how players could be coerced into manipulating their performance on the field to give the mob an edge in betting schemes.

“You’re a good running back, right?” Franzese said. “First three times [you touch the ball] next game, you put the ball on the ground. If you’re a wide receiver, make sure that ball doesn’t go into your hands. If you’re a quarterback, the first three times you get the ball, put it in the other team’s hands. I’ll worry about the rest. I’m getting an edge now. And if you don’t do it, you don’t want to know what happens at that point.”

“That’s it,” he added. “That’s very powerful. That’s how you get these players to work with you.”

We have been hearing it for years about how people could control the outcome of a game, but now it is starting to look a lot more like it is rigged. This is a wild revelation.