3 NFL players who were banned from the league

These 3 players were banned from the NFL! Find out why Frank Filchock, Merle Hapes, and Ray Carruth faced lifetime bans. #NFL #BannedPlayers #Scandal

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00:00 These three players were banned from the NFL.

00:02 Frank Filchok.

00:03 Frank Filchok was a member of the New York Giants

00:05 during the 1946 season, playing tailback and quarterback.

00:09 He helped the Giants to the NFL Championship game.

00:11 Filchok was later accused of taking a bribe

00:12 to throw the championship game by more than 10 points.

00:15 Filchok denied his involvement in the scandal,

00:17 saying he'd refused the offer,

00:18 but ended up being banned by the NFL.

00:20 He went up north after his ban to play

00:21 in the Canadian Football League.

00:23 Merle Hapes.

00:24 Fullback Merle Hapes was involved in the same scandal

00:26 as Frank Filchok in 1946.

00:28 Hapes was found guilty of accepting bribes to fix the game

00:31 and received a lifetime ban from the NFL.

00:34 Like Filchok, Hapes also went to the CFL

00:36 to continue his football career,

00:37 but only lasted one season.

00:38 Ray Carruth.

00:39 Ray Carruth was picked by the Carolina Panthers

00:42 in the 1997 NFL Draft before going on

00:44 to have a promising rookie year.

00:46 In November 1999, Sherika Adams,

00:49 the woman who was carrying Carruth's child,

00:50 was shot four times and died a month later.

00:53 Carruth was found guilty of conspiring to commit murder

00:55 for hiring the gunman and was sentenced to 18 years.