You don’t have to look very far under the surface of the average game in the National Football League to find cloak-and-dagger machinations worthy of governmental intelligence agencies. During the past several decades, teams have used both myriad spying tactics to gain extra advantages and extensive counterintelligence techniques to thwart them. The line between traditional espionage and NFL methods is surprisingly thin.
David Priess chatted with author Kevin Bryant about historical and present-day examples of it all, building on Kevin’s new book, “Spies on the Sidelines: The High-Stakes World of NFL Espionage.” They discussed known cases of spying before and during the draft, extraordinary means of collecting information about opposing teams’ practices and playbooks, common counterme
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