OJ Simpson has died

[*pally*]

OJ Simpson, 76, died of cancer

His legacy is complicated

[*Nately120*]

I choose to remember him for this and nothing else.

[CKwi88]

Good f***ing riddance.

[Mer]

I sure hope he repented or prison was paradise compared to where he is now.

[*Nately120*]

The reaction to the OJ Simpson thing is pretty wacky and interesting.  Mostly because one of my buddies who is from a small town and I are talking about it now and he said his father still believes OJ is innocent.  So a small town conservative republican dude thinks that white cops are so racist that they would kill 2 white people and frame a successful black man for it? I tells ya, the rules just don't apply here.

I remember watching the verdict in 8th grade on TV in our classroom.  The only kid I knew who was adamant that OJ was innocent and that Marcia Clark was a smug ***** who needed to lose is actually a state trooper now.  I assume he's framing black men for murder right now and doesn't even see the irony in it.



BONUS FUN FACT!

DID YOU KNOW OJ Simpson ended his career with the 49ers?

[HarleyDog]

[guyofthetiger]

OJ was a great NFL player. The rest of his life was a mess. I would say RIP but I'm sure those he murdered aren't.

[Sled21]

To quote Kaitlyn Jenner..... "Good Riddance!" Simpson was a narcissistic murderer who could not handle his ex moving on with someone else, so he brutally murdered them. The evidence is all there, the only reason he got off was the mood of the country after the Rodney King deal.

[BFritz21]

[*bfine32*]

I'm no one's judge, jury, or executioner. I'm sure that has been done now by the one true authority and I pray for those who grieve.

WTS, it was a tragedy how his story went from a fairy tale to a train wreck.

I do remember watching him run behind the "electric company' back in the day and it was fabulous.

[Sled21]

Simpson, Chris Benoit and several other went from hero to zero in milliseconds.

[samhain]

(04-13-2024, 12:59 AM)bfine32 Wrote: I'm no one's judge, jury, or executioner. I'm sure that has been done now by the one true authority and I pray for those who grieve.

WTS, it was a tragedy how his story went from a fairy tale to a train wreck.

I do remember watching him run behind the "electric company' back in the day and it was fabulous.

People who weren't around before the murders became the most common thing associated with his name lack some important perspective.  

OJ really was living a fairy tale kind of life.  He was one of the first black athletes that was openly marketed by mainstream companies nationally.  His reputation was that of an affable and relatable superstar. There was nothing controversial or subversive about him. His play at USC and in Buffalo was a gold standard before the time of Barry Sanders vs Emmett Smith kind of obscured it a bit.  

He was the chosen one, in a way.  Jordan before Jordan at a time when athletes weren't quite the force in marketing that they would eventually become.

Instead of fulfilling that promise, he more or less heralded in a new era of highly opinion-based cable news and even reality TV in some way.  

It's super odd that he just happened to be the cultural figure that ended up at the center of so many shifts in how we consume news.  

One could argue that his impact on the nation exceeded that of any athlete in history, and not in a good way.

[JS-Steelerfan]

(04-12-2024, 08:18 PM)BFritz21 Wrote:

Okay … now I’m scared.  I had a similar thought when I heard the news.   

[BFritz21]

(04-16-2024, 02:05 PM)JS-Steelerfan Wrote: Okay … now I’m scared.  I had a similar thought when I heard the news.   

Congratulations............ you think like a cripple 

[*michaelsean*]

That was a tough one for me. Growing up, OJ was the king.