Gambling, gangsters, & the Great One (Operation Slapshot)

Hall of Shame

Rachel Bonnetta

Sports, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Rachel would wager Rachna hasn’t heard this one before. Once upon a time, sports gambling wasn’t just frowned upon, it was illegal. But what’s a little money among friends? For the New Jersey police, $1.7 million in bets on the 2006 Super Bowl was a little too much to leave on the table. The investigation that followed linked the New Jersey state troopers, Philly’s biggest crime family, and Canada’s most beloved athlete.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, I'm Rachel.
0:06.3	And I'm Rechna and this is Hall of Shame.
0:12.0	Okay, so first off, we're in quarantine right now.
0:18.0	We're finding ways to stay entertained and I know that I'm about 500 years behind, but
0:25.6	I'm bingeing the sopranos from the beginning right now.
0:28.4	I'm jealous that that's where you are.
0:31.3	I get to relive this.
0:32.5	Yeah.
0:33.5	I had never seen a single episode.
0:35.6	I'm watching it from the beginning and I am fully obsessed.
0:40.3	Like we're making big Italian pasta dinners to eat now.
0:45.2	We're just like so in it right now.
0:47.4	So and I love mobster stuff like crime families, Godfather, good fellas.
0:51.3	I cannot get enough, but it's made me think it's made me think about some stuff this
0:55.2	week.
0:56.5	I am not the kind of person to commit crimes, which I realize is a ridiculous thing to
1:03.2	say, but I literally just could not do it.
1:07.5	Putting myself in like polywall and that's shoes.
1:10.1	You don't have the stomach show.
1:12.0	I don't.
1:13.0	I would be riddled with guilt.
1:14.6	I would be absolutely paranoid.
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