They Call It A Game:
Shoulders The NFL Stands On
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About the Book
This is the book the NFL thought they had buried!
Bernie Parrish’s account of the 1964 World Championship — the last time the Cleveland Browns won it all – is an unauthorized history of the NFL by a most unconventional player. The most controversial sports book ever written, this bestselling book was the first to expose the NFL owners symbiotic relationships and connections with Organized Crime and illegal gambling. The only thing that’s changed since its original publication are the dollar figures involved …now they’re exponentially bigger!
“Eight years of playing and nine years of activity in the players union have convinced (Parrish) that the hierarchy of the NFL is a basket of snakes. As St. Patrick swept Ireland clean of wriggly reptiles by flinging his bell at them, so Parrish hopes to change the leadership of the league by brazen clangor of a no-holds-barred book, They Call It A Game.”
-Life Magazine
A national bestseller and a Literary Guild Book of the Month Club selection
About the Author
Bernie Parrish was born in Langbeach, CA and raised in Gainesville, Florida. Attended the University fo Florida where he was an All American baseball player while starring in football. He returned most of a $63,000 bonus to the Cincinnati Reds before joining the NFL Cleveland Browns in 1959 becoming their star corner back his first year and was selected to Pro Bowl and Browns All Time All Star teams. He was the player coach calling the defensive signals when the Browns won their last World Championship 27-0 shutting out Don Shula and Johnny Unitas's Baltimore Colts. He served as VP of the NFL Players Association from 1962 to 1965. Retired CEO of a hotel and institutional construction company Parrish has completed another book NFL, The National Felony League-Point Spread Politics an is involoved in lecturing on media literacy while heading an american Alliance to fund the treatment of alcoholics through a class action suit against the beverage industry. (email aareescue@citrus.infi.net)