SF future football violent

I'm trying to find a book I once read - it's set in a future USA and American football has become a violent game played in an urban environment, with the addition of a sniper - there's also some corporate sub-plot and the hero's friend in his own team betrays him... it was written in the 70's or 80's

Killerbowl by Gary K. Wolf

https://www.amazon.com/Killerbowl-Gary-K-Wolf/dp/038504738X

"It’s thirty years in the future. In the Boston Minutemen locker room, Street Football League quarterback T.K. Mann prepares himself for the biggest, riskiest, most dangerous game of his life. At the age of thirty-four, T.K. is the oldest player in the ultraviolent sport of Professional Street Football, a phenomenally popular twenty-four-hour-long athletic event combining pro football with mixed martial arts and armed combat. From its outlaw beginnings as a gang game played on urban streets, the SFL has rapidly risen to become the nation’s most popular spectator sport. On every Sunday, armed and deadly players on SFL teams main and murder one another in front of huge television audiences. T"

>2 beichst: That's it! Brilliant thank you

psutto. YW. Glad I could help. BTW, if you enjoyed Killerbowl, you may also find the short story The National Pastime by Normal Spinrad interesting. There are some similar themes in terms of a football like game played in a very violent manner. More details can be found at the following link:

http://www.castaliahouse.com/science-fiction-sports-and-reality/

>4 beichst: - thanks I'll check it out