I wouldn't want to stand before God and answer for my transgressions the way OJ did.

(04-11-2024 10:12 AM)GreenFreakUAB Wrote:  ...because SOMEbody has to post it (dude DID win a Heisman)...

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/3992...amily-says

Even now...Still not a Jew.

(04-11-2024 12:51 PM)ArmoredUpKnight Wrote:  Not many people know this but OJ was a big supporter of UCF back in the day

Money can't buy that kind of publicity.

(04-11-2024 10:22 AM)ArmoredUpKnight Wrote:  Poor guy, never found his wife's killer.

It can't be easy finding someone else with your DNA.

(04-11-2024 04:23 PM)bryanw1995 Wrote:  

(04-11-2024 03:59 PM)jrj84105 Wrote:  I wonder what would have happened if OJ had kept his commitment to Utah? Just another WAC player going unnoticed? Even if he had football success, would his life have been different outside the spotlight of LA? How much did being a USC Heisman winner shape his personality versus potentially being an unknown in the WAC?

Adversity does not develop character, it reveals it.

He would have been the same man, but perhaps he wouldn't have committed double murder and gotten away with it.

I'd like to think I would have called him a murderer and stalked off were I in your shoes, but more likely I would have been similarly nonplussed and just been anxious to get away from him. I've been around a few celebrities here and there in my life, but nobody infamous like OJ. His combination of first FAME and then INFAMY is without peer in our time.

Marcus Allen won a Heisman at USC and had a successful NFL career and has never killed anyone that I am aware of.

OJ’s fame went beyond football. He did TV commercials where he was running and flying through airports. He became a movie star. All this while playing in exactly one playoff game in his career and on teams with a total record of 47-109-2. On teams that aren’t in big media markets. He had it all. We could be sitting here mourning how he died relatively young and how a big part of our childhood is gone. Now we are all celebrating the death of a killer.

(04-13-2024 07:18 AM)AssKickingChicken Wrote:  

(04-11-2024 04:23 PM)bryanw1995 Wrote:  

(04-11-2024 03:59 PM)jrj84105 Wrote:  I wonder what would have happened if OJ had kept his commitment to Utah? Just another WAC player going unnoticed? Even if he had football success, would his life have been different outside the spotlight of LA? How much did being a USC Heisman winner shape his personality versus potentially being an unknown in the WAC?

Adversity does not develop character, it reveals it.

He would have been the same man, but perhaps he wouldn't have committed double murder and gotten away with it.

I'd like to think I would have called him a murderer and stalked off were I in your shoes, but more likely I would have been similarly nonplussed and just been anxious to get away from him. I've been around a few celebrities here and there in my life, but nobody infamous like OJ. His combination of first FAME and then INFAMY is without peer in our time.

Marcus Allen won a Heisman at USC and had a successful NFL career and has never killed anyone that I am aware of.

OJ’s fame went beyond football. He did TV commercials where he was running and flying through airports. He became a movie star. All this while playing in exactly one playoff game in his career and on teams with a total record of 47-109-2. On teams that aren’t in big media markets. He had it all. We could be sitting here mourning how he died relatively young and how a big part of our childhood is gone. Now we are all celebrating the death of a killer.

Not beyond a reasonable doubt in the minds of those 12 jurors.
Certainly all of his behavior since indicated the jury made a mistake.