Methinks Brian Tuohy has pissed some people off...

First, the national reports of game-fixing by the drugged-out New York Knicks in the 1980's...

This is one of the explosive claims Brian Tuohy has made in his new book Larceny Games.

Now, I have deliberately avoided getting the book (though probably will today with reward points -- I do hope that the program I am getting them from is compensating Brian.  If not, we'll have to figure out something.), partially because I'd be too tempted to spill many of the beans here (and Brian took a tremendous amount of time and energy to do this, and should be well-compensated for his work), and partially just out of respect for Brian.

But there are a couple of early public off-shoots of his work in Larceny Games...

First, this interview with WFAN's Boomer and Carton (and, yes, that is Boomer Esiason) on September 19, 2013.

Now, Brian asks to keep an eye on something Boomer said in the interview.

I can only think it's one of two things:

It did seem like there was one key question in the interview that Carton asked that Boomer pre-empted the answer of by Brian.

The second thing from this interview would be far more interesting:  An aside by Boomer Esiason after the interview ends, but before the clip stops.  Boomer goes into some detail on a number of people in New York sports (he talks about the possible cocaine addictions going through the New York Mets, as well as the possibility Lawrence Taylor was compromised), as well as Stanley Wilson.

Stanley Wilson was a running back for the Cincinnati Bengals (the team Esiason played for during this time period) who was banned from the NFL because he could not comply with the drug policy.  His third and final strike was just before the Super Bowl when they were to play the San Francisco 49ers.

Esiason appears to imply what some believe about Wilson:  That his cocaine addiction left questions as to whether he actually fixed games.  Though he was left off the roster for the Super Bowl after his third strike, one would have to ask if Wilson was prepared to throw Super Bowl XXIII.

Listen to the interview.  It's a very interesting discussion on the subject.

The second public off-shoot, though, is quite a bit more disturbing, and Brian just announced it in the last couple of days.

Let's set a few things up:

• Brian notes in the aforementioned interview that the plurality of things he discovered in the FBI files pertained to dealings in the NFL.  (Which should come as no surprise to anyone other than a "true"/NO-heart football fan.)
• If you read several people on the subject, you saw what happened to Dan Moldea's investigative career after he went after the NFL for the book Interference.
• There are certainly a number of things the NFL does not want made public -- for example, a second Baltimore Raven, Terrell Suggs (and he's active!!) now believes that Roger Goodell orchestrated the blackout to fix the result of Super Bowl XLVII to make it closer.
• Finally, here's how Brian got most of the files in question:  He filed Freedom of Information Act requests with the FBI regarding Sports Bribery.

So, now, he finds himself, by his own admission, on the "Vexsome Filer List", basically a list compiled by the FBI to purportedly deal with such requests that become troublesome, due to their frequency.

Gee, you don't think the NFL hasn't had something to do with this?

Next step, probably threats against Brian???