A professional football player is supposed to get his violence in the glare of the floodlights and his sex very much in private. But when all-league quarterback “Jet” Black refused to throw a playoff game for racketeer Rudy Stark, such conventions were thrown into jarring reverse. He found himself taking beatings in private and involved in highly colorful intimacies with a series of irresistible strangers while the cameras clicked merrily on. All this and Hades, too, for both his career and a title were at stake.