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FBI Investigation Clears Green Bay Packer Legend
GREEN BAY --
The FBI released documents to the Associated Press containing a file with information concerning a hidden investigation of Green Bay Packer legend Max McGee for gambling on his sport. Most remember McGee as an energetic, family man, the player who scored the 1st touchdown in NFL Superbowl history. He was also a long-time announcer of the Packers Radio Network.
The hidden investigation took place between 1972 and 1973. The FBI wanted to know if McGee was accepting bets, something that could have jailed him and cost him his NFL career. After one year, the FBI ended its investigation concluding that McGee had not broken the law.
The investigation was unheard of until just recently as the documents were released under the Freedom of Information Act. McGee died last October at age 75 when he fell while doing maintenance around his Minneapolis home.
Despite his outward love of gambling and playing poker, the newly released FBI documents make it clear that he had done nothing illegal with respect to betting.
Under the Freedom of Information Act, hidden files become public record once the person has died, though portions may be "blacked-out" if they contain information regarding people still alive. The investigation shows the FBI conducted interviews, tapped his phone lines, staked out his Milwaukee restaurant and considered calling a grand jury before ending the investigation.
The first record in McGee’s FBI file shows that McGee was being investigated along with at least one other person, whose name was blacked-out. The file notes that McGee was known to be in frequent company of people connected with a gambling scandal in the NFL in 1963, though the names are also blacked out from that passage.
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