( CNN ) -- Toronto Mayor Rob Ford , infamous for admitting he smoked crack and drank too much , called allegations that he tried to buy an incriminating video from criminal suspects `` an outright lie '' on the Washington-based Sports Junkies talk radio show Thursday morning . Ford 's saga began in May , when allegations emerged that he appeared to be smoking crack cocaine on a pipe on cell phone video taken months earlier , in the winter of 2012 . After initially denying that he smoked the drug , he admitted in November that he did . On the show , when asked about how he handles all the media attention he 's received in the past few months , Ford said he is staying focused on serving his constituents . `` All the other stuff is nonsense , '' he said . Ford got testy with the hosts when they asked him about the tape , telling them that they could talk to his lawyers if they wanted to keep asking him questions about controversy . `` I 'm here to talk about football , '' he said . Ford described what a huge pigskin fan he is . He said that his home is full of football jerseys and regalia , and that he used to play center . He also said he has a football pool in his mayoral office . Documents : Criminal suspects claimed Ford tried to buy damaging video . The hosts asked him if he is a fan of online poker , and he enthusiastically said he is , and then told the hosts that if they came to Toronto , he would treat them like `` kings , '' and maybe they 'd go out for chicken wings . The hosts asked him what the future holds for him . The `` future is I 'm getting re-elected , '' Ford replied . The hosts asked if Ford has the support of the people . `` Absolutely , '' he answered . Asked who is running against him in the October 27 , 2014 , election , he said , `` I do n't know . There 's a ton of names out there . '' Then he added : `` The more the merrier . Let my record speak for itself . '' Mayor Rob Ford : A man of contrasts . Allegations about damaging tape . The sports radio interview aired a day after the release of documents that say Ford tried to buy a damaging tape from criminal suspects -- months before a tape was publicized showing him smoking crack . That 's according to documents CNN obtained from Ontario Crown Counsel Arielle Elbaz that are tied to a Canadian investigation into organized crime called Project Traveller . Ford was n't the focus of this investigation , and he has not been charged with a crime . But , after allegedly interacting with several players who were involved in the probe , he ended up getting ensnared in it . Ford vows 'outright war ' after council strips his powers . The mayor 's camp did not return a CNN request for comment . According to the documents , police translating a March 27 phone conversation , primarily from the Somali language , believed that the men were talking about `` receiving an offer from Rob Ford in exchange for a video . '' The men discussed an apparent offer of $ 5,000 and a car in exchange for the video , as well as selling the tape to the Toronto Star newspaper and an unnamed website . The court documents state : `` At the end of the discussion , ( one of the men ) said he does not want to go to the media but would just see him ( believed to be referring to Ford ) , ... He says he 'll ask for 100 or 150 '' -- possibly referring to $ 100,000 or $ 150,000 . These conversations do n't delve into specifics about what 's on the video . But earlier this year , allegations surfaced in two media outlets that Ford had been recorded last winter using crack cocaine . In May , the Star and the website Gawker published stories saying their reporters saw 90 seconds of a cell phone video showing Ford , as the Star described it , `` inhaling from what appears to be a glass crack pipe . '' Later in the video -- as described by the Star -- an `` incoherent '' man both the Star and Gawker claimed was Ford ranted about a number of subjects . After that report came out , Ford said he had no reason to resign . Yet pressure on him increased earlier this fall when Toronto 's police chief announced investigators had recovered a video that purportedly showed Ford smoking from a crack pipe . The next week , on November 5 , Ford admitted that he 'd `` smoked crack cocaine ... probably in one of my drunken stupors , probably approximately about a year ago . '' He denied being an addict . Even after this admission , Ford refused to resign . Instead , he vowed `` outright war '' on the city council when , later in the month , it slashed the mayor 's budget and transferred most of his duties to the deputy mayor . `` If you think American-style politics is nasty , you guys have just attacked Kuwait , '' Ford said then to groans and laughter in the city council chambers . The mayor 's voice is less apparent in the documents released Wednesday , although he is not necessarily insignificant . Authorities say that phone intercepts from early on April 20 , for instance , indicate one woman telling a man `` that Rob Ford is at the residence . '' Two minutes later , at 12:54 a.m. , another man allegedly tells the first `` to go to Princess 's ... house to deliver drugs to Rob Ford , '' the court documents say . Ford on controversial team names . Whenever the Washington , D.C. , radio hosts asked Ford about his political life Thursday , he tried to steer the conversation back to sports . `` Mayor , what is your link to the Redskins -- 'cause your people have told us that you actually were a Skins fan or you went to Skins camp ? '' Ford said he went to a youth football camp in Pennsylvania for three years that was staffed , at least in part , by Redskins players . `` These guys literally taught us how to play football -- banging on your door at 7 a.m . It was great discipline at a young age , so I went back there three years in a row . '' One of the hosts asked him what he thought about opposition to the name Redskins , which some think is offensive to Native Americans . `` Why do n't we look at the Cleveland Indians , '' Ford replied . `` What are we gon na call them next , the Cleveland Aboriginals ? Like , where do we go with this ? It 's been around for years and years and years and if they were offended they should have come out when the name was first initiated . You started playing -- how long have the Skins had their name for ? How long have the Chiefs had their name for ? How long have the Cleveland Indians had their name for ? Years and years and years and all of a sudden the politically correct people have to come out now ? I think everything 's fine and I would just stick with the name . ''
Toronto mayor denies trying to buy an incriminating video from criminal suspects . The mayor's office says the tape was not a part of any investigation and that he has no knowledge about it. He is still in office and tells radio hosts that he 's confident he 'll be re-elected next October .