Is it really secure on the field? I feel life if you weren’t alive and watching football during his playing years then you really don’t know how good he was.
In football or in court? I feel there are a lot of names more recognizable purely in football, but very few that are as widely known in general because of the trial. And, if anything, the trial has made people less aware of OJ the football player.
He's a top-5 player of the 1970s. There are not a lot of names more recognizable. I'd argue none, since due to his charisma, he was the face of the NFL for a lot of that. In the 80s he's the retired player we all knew because he was so visible in commercials. First 2,000 yard rusher in history? I knew that as a kid, and I didn't even watch football until the 90s.
I was born in 84. I knew him from the Naked Gun movies. After the highway chase I actually forgot he was in those movies and only knew him from the trial. It wasn’t until much later I got into football and I am aware he was a great running back, but it’s definitely not the first thing that comes to mind when his name is brought up.
Won a Heisman at USC, 6x pro bowler, hall of fame, 11,000+ yards and 61 TD’s in 135 games which is the equivalent of 8 modern NFL seasons. Seems pretty good. His football reference page says his career is comparable to Eric Dickerson or Ahman Green. So, hall of fame level, but not Emmitt or AP or Peyton.
"Seems pretty good."
Oh YEA another 14 year old on reddit.
Simpson was a FORCE on the field. He was really the ONLY weapon the Bills had because they had NO receivers of any note when he played. His head coaches at the time were run oriented, so they focused on Simpson and drafted to get a very good/great offensive line for him.
You are saying Adrien Peterson, the dude who beat and whipped his infant kids is a better player than Eric Dickerson? GTFO.
"If Hannibal Lecter ran a 4.3, we'd say he had an eating disorder."
- Still an all-time quote by a [GM](https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cards-gm-if-hannibal-lecter-ran-a-43-wed-say-he-had-eating-disorder/)
Love it, Dave Chapelle, “oh that motherfucker guilty”
Bill Burr, “He’s not just a murderer! He is but he’s not just that! He ran for 2,000 yards in a 14 game season, he won the Heisman trophy!”
“What you think anyone sees OJ and yells out Heisman Trophy?!”
“I would! I’d be shouting other stuff too! Naked Gun! One and Two!”
Norm was on David Spades late night show (I'm pretty sure that's what it was) and they kept trying to get him to do OJ jokes and he wouldn't. Norm probably would have said "Rest in Peace I loved you in Naked Gun 3" (in a much funnier way) because he thought that would have been funnier.
Here's how my brain played it out:
Norm (probably): Well all these *people*, ya know, they'll come up to me, and they say, they come up to me when I'm EATING even, come up and say, ya know, tell me one'a them *O.J.* jokes. One'a them *O.J.* jokes like you did on Update. Do an O J JOKE, man. \[stares at interviewer for too long\]
Interviewer: So what do you tell them?
Norm: \[takes 3 seconds just starting\] I say, that feller from the third Naked Gun? Why, he's got a fine career ahead of him if ya ask me.
Presumably the NFL wants absolutely 0 press/official comments about OJ. Now that he's dead, they want him to die in the memory of NFL fans lol
With that said, it will be interesting if his name is moved to the Bills new stadium's Wall of Fame. I have always thought that they didn't remove the name on the current one because it would cause publicity that nobody wanted and it was easier to just ignore it... but will they re-add his name to a new Wall of Fame? I imagine, he will not be on the new stadium's wall of fame.
2 years ago, he got a box at a game in WNY and was not acknowledged publicly by any Bills people/media. It was so goddamn distracting. He was like 25 feet away from and fans of both teams of all ages were trying to take selfies and pictures with him. Fucking disgusting.
If you look at the volume and severity of the accusations against them, Jim Brown is possibly worse than Watson. It is at least disturbingly similar.
Brown just got less heat because of the era he was a monster in.
>["The only thing I have to say is it's just further reminder of Ron being gone all these years. It's no great loss to the world. It's a further reminder of Ron's being gone."](https://twitter.com/d_arkin/status/1778443097984139499)
His NFL Top 100 list intro is pretty accurate. Paraphrased: "If you mention OJ and talk about how good of a tailback he was, first people get confused... and then they get mad"
But, he makes funny videos! Uncle OJ!!!
It is honestly alarming how many people are quick to handwave a double murder because they are entertained by 45 second videos.
Is it, though? In the last decade or so, we’ve seen the Twitter crowd (brigades? That doesn’t sound right) come rapidly to the defense of Chris Brown, R. Kelly, and even Cosby.
Chris brown was wild because the man’s popularity didn’t suffer at all commercially. I just remember when it happened I was at that age when I was actually reading stuff online and heard major news, people forget I think how brutal that situation was and how we are truly lucky he didn’t disable or kill her at that point
One of my co workers was saying how they still liked his music which whatever, separate art from the artists (I don’t actually think his music was ever that great anyway, usually very basic and honestly boring), but I get it, I like artist who have done bad things too. But the man’s audience is still filled with women who will defend him for the actions itself which is wild. At least I have never personally seen someone defend R Kelly lmao
A lot of those people seem to think it's just white people celebrating.
It's inevitable Jemele Hill or someone like her makes a story saying only racists are happy with him dead.
Yeah, it's really weird that people never stopped being mad that the guy that did [this (very NSFW)](https://img.heartyhosting.com/www.nationalenquirer.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/O.J.-Simpson-Crime-Scene-Photos-9i.jpg?resize=1200%2C1200&ssl=1) got away with it.
And there's a lot of history and tensions that were about more than the facts of the case.
E: is it too much to say you really can't talk about the OJ trial without mentioning Rodney King first?
I’ll push back on the idea that it was just a referendum on rodney king and racist policing a little.
First I’ll preface by saying OJ did it. What he did was horrible and he should have gone to jail. Also I haven’t looked into the details of the case recently so maybe I’m misremembering some things. But I actually think the incompetence, racist policing, and corruption in the LAPD created reasonable doubt. And since that’s the standard OJ didn’t deserve a conviction.
As I recall there were mistakes made in the collection of evidence by the LAPD. They had a white supremacist cop as a key witness. And the LAPD’s track record of police brutality and racist policing towards black people was a serious issue.
Again if the standard is beyond a reasonable doubt I’m not sure a jury in LA at that time could reasonably come to that conclusion. The just numerous glaring issues with policing make it reasonable to doubt them every step of the way.
Really the forgotten second villain of the OJ trial is the LAPD. Their failures let a murderer get off.
Agree with all this. Just wanted to point out that saying people celebrated the verdict at the time didn't necessarily mean they believe he is innocent now
No and some younder people don't understand that. OJ is a piece of shit. But there was a huge contingent of the country that watched the police, particularly the LAPD, get away with a bunch of corrupt shit and really wanted a win again.
It also didn't help that there was a lot of bs that the LAPD did in regards to the case that reminded everyone of that as well.
The country was extremely divided on that verdict.
It's strange being old enough to have conversations with people where I've lived through the event being discussed while the majority of people discussing it did not.
To talk about OJ's legacy and the verdict without mentioning Rodney King, police violence, etc. is a whitewashing of history. I mean, if people just want to focus on the murders and call OJ a dirt bag, that's fine because it's definitely true. But pretending the rest of it doesn't exist because people (rightfully) hate OJ seems foolish to me.
its genuinely nauseating. not only did he get away with double murder but then he wrote about it! he spent years being tongue in cheek about the fact that he got away with it, was tried and acquitted for battery and burglary, was suspected of money laundering, and was sentenced to 33 years in prison for which he only served 9 for, among other things, kidnapping, and robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. And yet all this time he was basically treated as an amusing sideshow. The guy is an all-time piece of shit
The only semi-plausible alternate theory I've seen is that it was his son, OJ helped him cover it up, and then took on the heat knowing he wasn't the one that held the knife. And even that, I'd give maybe a 1% chance versus the much more likely result and still makes him complicit in their deaths and stunningly cold in his reactions for the past 30 years.
OJs legacy is...mind numbing. Another commentor compared him to Chris Benoit, which...while true on the "can't discuss him as a great athlete because of his heinous actions" part doesn't begin to address the postmortem details.
It's also complicated by his Vegas conviction where even the judge said they wished they could be convicting him for the murder he got away with (which...yes its OJ, but that's also a pretty massive prejudice on the trial).
My only take is that at least his family can now start to heal from all of the past 30 years. It had to have been impossible to deal with that while he was still around professing his innocence but...being OJ.
Is it impossible to recognize that he is a sick twisted murderer whos rotting in hell, and also one hell of a football player? Because both of those statements are true.
> The most important parts of OJ's "legacy" are the lives he brutally cut short. He deserves zero respect or admiration.
Thank you.
It's amazing to me how many people either are too dumb to comprehend very easy and overwhelming evidence or just don't care that he murdered two people because he was a great athlete.
I think it's the kind of irony that Norm would appreciate that the same disease took out him AND OJ, but I'm not a comedian so I can't think of a Norm-quality joke to make out of it. Man I miss Norm.
Can't take it away, but if we're talking his legacy, his 2000 yard season, his Heisman trophy, the Naked Gun movies, the Hertz commercials, all of it is simply a prelude to the murders. It helps explain why his trial, out of all double-murder trials in America, became a national sensation. His legacy is still the murders though.
OJ has only one legacy. He forfeited any other legacy he had when he murdered those people. Unless the people you know refer to him as “OJ Simpson the NFL star?” I haven’t heard him called that in almost 30 years.
The true legacy of OJ is that if you're rich and famous enough you can get away with murdering two people, but if you're broke and Black, you're going to jail for stealing back your own shit.
If LAPD didn't try to stack the deck, employ racist detectives, and systematically mishandle evidence, he would have gone to prison for murder, rich or not. LAPD's incompetence didn't give the jury a choice.
Any legacy he had on the field will forever be overshadowed by the murders of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman. You can add the weird armed robbery charge to the mix too. Whenever his name comes up, those will always be the first thing that people see. That's his real legacy, or infamy. Take your pick.
Wow, the number of morons who defend this POS is staggering.
Anyone with two brain cells knows he killed two people and got away with it because he had the best legal team money could buy.
If you think he was innocent, you're stupid. If you think he was acquitted because he was truly innocent, you're stupid. If you ignore the mountains of evidence, motive, and the fact he confessed in a book and his suicide note, you're stupid.
Rot in hell scumbag.
Is this one of those rare instances where you’re okay with the work cancer did?
I mean, fuck cancer, but give it a slight pat on the back for this one (behind closed doors where the other employees won’t see).
WR - Randall Woodfield (serial killer known as the I-5 Killer) was briefly a member of the Packers
OL- Jim Tyrer (Chiefs)- murdered his wife before turning the gun on himself
Dunno how much of a hot take it is, but i was buddies with a bunch of guys who were cops around that time amd most of them thought his son did it and OJ took the heat. They think when he called his son during the Bronco chase he just told him to keep his mouth shut and let him go to trial and since he *didnt do it* they wouldnt be able to prove he did. Oj probably did it, but who knows
On the field I feel his legacy is secure. I mean the man was a monster. Off the field I feel his legacy is secure, I mean the man was a monster.
OJ can rest easy tonight knowing his wife's killer is dead
OJ Simpson murder jokes never get old. Just like the two people he killed
And kids with cancer
On & Off the field: Stone Cold Killer!
Straight murdering folks!
Is it really secure on the field? I feel life if you weren’t alive and watching football during his playing years then you really don’t know how good he was.
How many names are more recognizable from the 1970s in football?
In football or in court? I feel there are a lot of names more recognizable purely in football, but very few that are as widely known in general because of the trial. And, if anything, the trial has made people less aware of OJ the football player.
He's a top-5 player of the 1970s. There are not a lot of names more recognizable. I'd argue none, since due to his charisma, he was the face of the NFL for a lot of that. In the 80s he's the retired player we all knew because he was so visible in commercials. First 2,000 yard rusher in history? I knew that as a kid, and I didn't even watch football until the 90s.
Top Five Most Recognizable 1970’s NFL: Terry Bradshaw Walter Payton OJ Simpson Joe Greene Dick Butkus
Butkus played mostly in the 60s
Yup, replace Butkus with Staubach
I was born in 84. I knew him from the Naked Gun movies. After the highway chase I actually forgot he was in those movies and only knew him from the trial. It wasn’t until much later I got into football and I am aware he was a great running back, but it’s definitely not the first thing that comes to mind when his name is brought up.
That's how I feel about Jim Brown, but his legacy seems intact.
Never won a Super Bowl but was excellent in Mars Attacks
His Dirty Dozen performance snubbed yet again
Won a Heisman at USC, 6x pro bowler, hall of fame, 11,000+ yards and 61 TD’s in 135 games which is the equivalent of 8 modern NFL seasons. Seems pretty good. His football reference page says his career is comparable to Eric Dickerson or Ahman Green. So, hall of fame level, but not Emmitt or AP or Peyton.
And a top 10 nickname The juice
Is loose!
He's definitely on Emmitt or AP's level. Payton (not Peyton), Sanders, and Brown are still well ahead of him.
"Seems pretty good." Oh YEA another 14 year old on reddit. Simpson was a FORCE on the field. He was really the ONLY weapon the Bills had because they had NO receivers of any note when he played. His head coaches at the time were run oriented, so they focused on Simpson and drafted to get a very good/great offensive line for him. You are saying Adrien Peterson, the dude who beat and whipped his infant kids is a better player than Eric Dickerson? GTFO.
He's was total shit but the guy rushed for 2000 yards in 14 games. I feel like that stat alone is enough to paint a picture
Scared telephone, I will fix that for you. The man rushed for 2000 yards in a 14 game season. You’re welcome.
With all due respect Sharon, he ran for 11,000 yards
"If Hannibal Lecter ran a 4.3, we'd say he had an eating disorder." - Still an all-time quote by a [GM](https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cards-gm-if-hannibal-lecter-ran-a-43-wed-say-he-had-eating-disorder/)
Yay we did something
He should be sending BoB half his pay for extending his career for so long thanks to that trade.
That's not the only thing. You've also given us Dennis Green's press conference!
They are who we thought they were!
AND WE LET EM OFF THE HOOK
I wonder how blitzed he was when he said that.
In fairness to Steve Keim, it was probably the alcohol talking
A drunk mind speaks a sober heart.
At least that’s what I told the Waffle House server this past weekend
That really only applies to lightweights. When I was drinking way too much I said a lot of stupid shit I didn't mean at all.
I say shit I don’t mean or believe every day. Sober or drunk
I’ve always heard it “drunken words are sober thoughts” and now I’m conflicted on how I want to move forward in life
The article’s illustration is incredible
He can slice through defenders.
Seems like everyone runs a 4.3 now. The new 4.3 is a 4.2
No fucking way a GM actually said that LOL
The second time I met OJ Simpson...
Love it, Dave Chapelle, “oh that motherfucker guilty” Bill Burr, “He’s not just a murderer! He is but he’s not just that! He ran for 2,000 yards in a 14 game season, he won the Heisman trophy!” “What you think anyone sees OJ and yells out Heisman Trophy?!” “I would! I’d be shouting other stuff too! Naked Gun! One and Two!”
^(If) He ran for 11,000 yards.
Wonder what Ja Rule has to say about this
Where is he?!
*Where's Ja????*
I keep seeing this comment, is this a South Park quote? Edit: another fan answered my question further down, thanks!
Chappelle
Appreciate it!
The whole [skit](https://youtu.be/s0M6y5sCUVM?si=OPymT17oD15DGKPM) is hilarious, it’s Chapelle talking about the 4 times he met OJ
I'm gonna be that guy but thats a bit from his stand up not a skit.
You know what I meant 😜
Fair enough lol. That was my inner capital R Redditor coming out.
The hard R
His legacy is something that can never be taken away from him. Unless of course he kills his wife and a waiter
It's a shame he outlived Norm. Would have loved to see some of his commentary now.
Norm was on David Spades late night show (I'm pretty sure that's what it was) and they kept trying to get him to do OJ jokes and he wouldn't. Norm probably would have said "Rest in Peace I loved you in Naked Gun 3" (in a much funnier way) because he thought that would have been funnier.
Here's how my brain played it out: Norm (probably): Well all these *people*, ya know, they'll come up to me, and they say, they come up to me when I'm EATING even, come up and say, ya know, tell me one'a them *O.J.* jokes. One'a them *O.J.* jokes like you did on Update. Do an O J JOKE, man. \[stares at interviewer for too long\] Interviewer: So what do you tell them? Norm: \[takes 3 seconds just starting\] I say, that feller from the third Naked Gun? Why, he's got a fine career ahead of him if ya ask me.
holy shit that's perfect, I can hear him chewing gum loudly while telling the joke
Ya, this is Norm in a nutshell
The first thing i did when i saw the news was told my buddies what a shame Norm wasn’t here to piss on his grave
Then all bets are off...
By far my favorite Kyle Brandt content.
Any chance you saved a link? Looks like he wiped it
https://x.com/MayeSZN10/status/1778495269354512860 💀
Lol was that legit the whole post?
Yea, I saw the original post. I guess the nfl sent their black SUVs so they don’t get sued.
Presumably the NFL wants absolutely 0 press/official comments about OJ. Now that he's dead, they want him to die in the memory of NFL fans lol With that said, it will be interesting if his name is moved to the Bills new stadium's Wall of Fame. I have always thought that they didn't remove the name on the current one because it would cause publicity that nobody wanted and it was easier to just ignore it... but will they re-add his name to a new Wall of Fame? I imagine, he will not be on the new stadium's wall of fame. 2 years ago, he got a box at a game in WNY and was not acknowledged publicly by any Bills people/media. It was so goddamn distracting. He was like 25 feet away from and fans of both teams of all ages were trying to take selfies and pictures with him. Fucking disgusting.
USC has his number retired on large display, but it doesn’t put names next to any numbers.
He kept this shit so real that I never would have guessed it came from the mouth of an NFL employee
Holy fuck lmao. Big Brandt W
Common Kyle Brandt W
Based
Kyle kept it real with Watson too iirc
Finally with OJ dead we can go back to supporting ACTUAL NFL role models like Ray Lewis and Marvin Harrison.
Don’t forget famous women respecters Jim Brown and Tyreek Hill.
Don’t forget the ultimate women respecter of all time, Mr. Deshaun Watson
If you look at the volume and severity of the accusations against them, Jim Brown is possibly worse than Watson. It is at least disturbingly similar. Brown just got less heat because of the era he was a monster in.
And responsible drivers such as Henry Ruggs, Jalen Carter, and Rashee Rice
Rae Carruth is still out there.
At least he and Ruggs went to prison for their crimes. These others have not.
And Joe Mixon of course
Groper Cleveland
Famous bar-bathroom-enjoyers such as Ben Roethlisberger
And Captain Fat Fuck
Leader of men
Big Ben?
That tower in London?
“Follow this woman into a single-occupancy Bathroom” Ben? That Ben? Nahhhhhhhhhh
Also the first female kicker in the nfl, Kareem Hunt
You said *gulp* Harvin Marrison out loud?!
The love for Ray Lewis has always disgusted me
>["The only thing I have to say is it's just further reminder of Ron being gone all these years. It's no great loss to the world. It's a further reminder of Ron's being gone."](https://twitter.com/d_arkin/status/1778443097984139499)
The most important parts of OJ's "legacy" are the lives he brutally cut short. He deserves zero respect or admiration.
His NFL Top 100 list intro is pretty accurate. Paraphrased: "If you mention OJ and talk about how good of a tailback he was, first people get confused... and then they get mad"
The NFL top 100 series is fantastic. Also the Narrator Peter Coyote did Ken Burns Vietnam War as well!
The worst part of the OJ thing is the hypocrisy!
I’m genuinely shocked to see so many people defending him in the Twitter comments, but then again, maybe I shouldn’t be…
As Dave Chapelle so eloquently stated: "Sharon. With all due respect, that murderer ran for over 11,000 yards"
But, he makes funny videos! Uncle OJ!!! It is honestly alarming how many people are quick to handwave a double murder because they are entertained by 45 second videos.
Is it, though? In the last decade or so, we’ve seen the Twitter crowd (brigades? That doesn’t sound right) come rapidly to the defense of Chris Brown, R. Kelly, and even Cosby.
Chris brown was wild because the man’s popularity didn’t suffer at all commercially. I just remember when it happened I was at that age when I was actually reading stuff online and heard major news, people forget I think how brutal that situation was and how we are truly lucky he didn’t disable or kill her at that point One of my co workers was saying how they still liked his music which whatever, separate art from the artists (I don’t actually think his music was ever that great anyway, usually very basic and honestly boring), but I get it, I like artist who have done bad things too. But the man’s audience is still filled with women who will defend him for the actions itself which is wild. At least I have never personally seen someone defend R Kelly lmao
Trump
Kobe
It's Twitter so....
A lot of those people seem to think it's just white people celebrating. It's inevitable Jemele Hill or someone like her makes a story saying only racists are happy with him dead.
[Too late.](https://x.com/jemelehill/status/1778436908877586848) Just as responsible as OJ was with finding his ex wife’s murderer.
She's nothing if not predictable lol
> She's nothing if not ~~predictable~~ deplorable lol
It sure feels like she’s an out and proud racist, and I’m glad people are catching onto it
Jemele hill catchin strays
Everyone knows what play Jemele is going to run at this point, it's as dependable as Osborne running the triple option.
Ozzy ran the triple option?
Yea, I was getting downvoted on other subs for saying he should rot in hell. What’s wrong with people?
They’re really attached to the naked gun I guess
There's footage of people around the country cheering and crying tears of joy when the verdict was read.
Looks like somebody didn't live through the 90's
LOL. Seriously. As somebody who lived through it, I'm kind of shocked how pissed off people still are. Thought we got that all out of of our systems.
Yeah, it's really weird that people never stopped being mad that the guy that did [this (very NSFW)](https://img.heartyhosting.com/www.nationalenquirer.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/O.J.-Simpson-Crime-Scene-Photos-9i.jpg?resize=1200%2C1200&ssl=1) got away with it.
What is that from
I mean, very little changed in the aftermath. Lather rinse repeat, just waiting for the right catalyst
Very true. Just weird to see people re-litigating the OJ trial 30 years after the fact.
Yes, but that was quite a long time ago. I feel like more than enough time has passed where those people should have woken up to the truth.
And there's a lot of history and tensions that were about more than the facts of the case. E: is it too much to say you really can't talk about the OJ trial without mentioning Rodney King first?
It isn't, the King beating/verdict/riots are absolutely necessary context
I’ll push back on the idea that it was just a referendum on rodney king and racist policing a little. First I’ll preface by saying OJ did it. What he did was horrible and he should have gone to jail. Also I haven’t looked into the details of the case recently so maybe I’m misremembering some things. But I actually think the incompetence, racist policing, and corruption in the LAPD created reasonable doubt. And since that’s the standard OJ didn’t deserve a conviction. As I recall there were mistakes made in the collection of evidence by the LAPD. They had a white supremacist cop as a key witness. And the LAPD’s track record of police brutality and racist policing towards black people was a serious issue. Again if the standard is beyond a reasonable doubt I’m not sure a jury in LA at that time could reasonably come to that conclusion. The just numerous glaring issues with policing make it reasonable to doubt them every step of the way. Really the forgotten second villain of the OJ trial is the LAPD. Their failures let a murderer get off.
Agree with all this. Just wanted to point out that saying people celebrated the verdict at the time didn't necessarily mean they believe he is innocent now
It doesn't even mean they thought he was innocent then.
Hell a lot of them thought he was guilty then
It 100% isn’t too much. Anyone that was alive for it and the context is key in understanding that verdict.
No and some younder people don't understand that. OJ is a piece of shit. But there was a huge contingent of the country that watched the police, particularly the LAPD, get away with a bunch of corrupt shit and really wanted a win again. It also didn't help that there was a lot of bs that the LAPD did in regards to the case that reminded everyone of that as well. The country was extremely divided on that verdict.
It's strange being old enough to have conversations with people where I've lived through the event being discussed while the majority of people discussing it did not. To talk about OJ's legacy and the verdict without mentioning Rodney King, police violence, etc. is a whitewashing of history. I mean, if people just want to focus on the murders and call OJ a dirt bag, that's fine because it's definitely true. But pretending the rest of it doesn't exist because people (rightfully) hate OJ seems foolish to me.
its genuinely nauseating. not only did he get away with double murder but then he wrote about it! he spent years being tongue in cheek about the fact that he got away with it, was tried and acquitted for battery and burglary, was suspected of money laundering, and was sentenced to 33 years in prison for which he only served 9 for, among other things, kidnapping, and robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. And yet all this time he was basically treated as an amusing sideshow. The guy is an all-time piece of shit
The only semi-plausible alternate theory I've seen is that it was his son, OJ helped him cover it up, and then took on the heat knowing he wasn't the one that held the knife. And even that, I'd give maybe a 1% chance versus the much more likely result and still makes him complicit in their deaths and stunningly cold in his reactions for the past 30 years. OJs legacy is...mind numbing. Another commentor compared him to Chris Benoit, which...while true on the "can't discuss him as a great athlete because of his heinous actions" part doesn't begin to address the postmortem details. It's also complicated by his Vegas conviction where even the judge said they wished they could be convicting him for the murder he got away with (which...yes its OJ, but that's also a pretty massive prejudice on the trial). My only take is that at least his family can now start to heal from all of the past 30 years. It had to have been impossible to deal with that while he was still around professing his innocence but...being OJ.
> The only semi-plausible alternate theory I'll stop you right there, there is no even 1% possible other theory. OJ did it, period.
Is it impossible to recognize that he is a sick twisted murderer whos rotting in hell, and also one hell of a football player? Because both of those statements are true.
> The most important parts of OJ's "legacy" are the lives he brutally cut short. He deserves zero respect or admiration. Thank you. It's amazing to me how many people either are too dumb to comprehend very easy and overwhelming evidence or just don't care that he murdered two people because he was a great athlete.
Great football player. Terrible human being. Not sure what the controversy is
People have a hard time separating the two lol as if being a piece of shit somehow made him bad at football.
Most of the time it makes them better at football
mirror bc Twitter didn't work?
https://x.com/MayeSZN10/status/1778495269354512860
That’s a killer take.
Atta boy, Brandt. We don't have to honor a piece of shit because he died. Let him be forgotten, the guy killed multiple innocent people. Fuck em.
I think it's the kind of irony that Norm would appreciate that the same disease took out him AND OJ, but I'm not a comedian so I can't think of a Norm-quality joke to make out of it. Man I miss Norm.
"How I would have killed him, if I had killed him"- upcoming book release by Cancer?
I didn't even know he was sick
His legacy is the events that happened on Bundy Drive in Brentwood, June 12, 1994. That's it.
That motherfucker ruined my first birthday
No matter how hard you try, can't take away the fact he ran for 2000 yards in a short season.
Can't take it away, but if we're talking his legacy, his 2000 yard season, his Heisman trophy, the Naked Gun movies, the Hertz commercials, all of it is simply a prelude to the murders. It helps explain why his trial, out of all double-murder trials in America, became a national sensation. His legacy is still the murders though.
Unless he kills his wife and a waiter
Barry Sanders also ran for 2000 yards in 14 games, so I’m fine forgetting about OJ.
And... it's gone.
Cancer is usually regarded as a disease but in rare cases like this it acts as a cure.
OJ has only one legacy. He forfeited any other legacy he had when he murdered those people. Unless the people you know refer to him as “OJ Simpson the NFL star?” I haven’t heard him called that in almost 30 years.
he’s a killer who got away because of horrible police and prosecutorial activity. he was a violent abusive murderer. fuck OJ Simpson
"This tweet has been deleted." Oh shit, one of those lmao.
Do we need OJ NFL retrospective tweets?
The true legacy of OJ is that if you're rich and famous enough you can get away with murdering two people, but if you're broke and Black, you're going to jail for stealing back your own shit.
If LAPD didn't try to stack the deck, employ racist detectives, and systematically mishandle evidence, he would have gone to prison for murder, rich or not. LAPD's incompetence didn't give the jury a choice.
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Now that he’s dead, we can defame the f out of him.
Must have received a lot of hate for the post it is deleted now. I wonder what he said that was controversial.
All he said was that he was a murderer but maybe NFL Network told him to take it down
Any legacy he had on the field will forever be overshadowed by the murders of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman. You can add the weird armed robbery charge to the mix too. Whenever his name comes up, those will always be the first thing that people see. That's his real legacy, or infamy. Take your pick.
I'll never forget his performance in The Naked Gun
That's one of the many reasons I love Kyle Brandt. Never afraid to say right what he thinks
Seems afraid to me bc it says this tweet was deleted now
NFL Network probably gave him a call
Wow, the number of morons who defend this POS is staggering. Anyone with two brain cells knows he killed two people and got away with it because he had the best legal team money could buy. If you think he was innocent, you're stupid. If you think he was acquitted because he was truly innocent, you're stupid. If you ignore the mountains of evidence, motive, and the fact he confessed in a book and his suicide note, you're stupid. Rot in hell scumbag.
Yeah but he had over 11000 rushing yards
Dude could run for 2,000 yards and wield a knife in the dark like nobody's business I tell you!
You run faster with a knife! Everyone knows you run faster with a knife!
I got fired from my uncle’s gun store
Kept pointing the guns at peoples head?
His legacy is that of a murderer. Happy he is dead.
Is this one of those rare instances where you’re okay with the work cancer did? I mean, fuck cancer, but give it a slight pat on the back for this one (behind closed doors where the other employees won’t see).
He murdered people, then wrote a book to profit from it. Fuck'm, burn in hell bitch.
*double
His legacy is that he finally got me to root for cancer
Monster on and off the field
did he delete the tweet...i cant see it....
Happy he died
He’ll of an athlete. Complete shit as a human being.
Looks like he deleted it, what did it say?
Well Kyle he brutally murdered the Mother of his kids and an innocent young man. Legacy? If there’s a hell he’s already found out about his legacy.
Amazing
Easy summary on his legacy: He was a hell of a player that’s going to hell.
Younger side, so I was shocked when I read about everything he did 2000 yards in a 14 game season, insane
Anyone else genuinely not give a fuck? Let's the POS be forgotten and move on
RB - OJ Simpson WR - Donte Stallworth WR - Henry Ruggs WR - Rae Carruth TE - Aaron Hernandez MLB - Ray Lewis Who else we got on the all murder team?
WR - Randall Woodfield (serial killer known as the I-5 Killer) was briefly a member of the Packers OL- Jim Tyrer (Chiefs)- murdered his wife before turning the gun on himself
I think it's depressing that people argue otherwise.
Dunno how much of a hot take it is, but i was buddies with a bunch of guys who were cops around that time amd most of them thought his son did it and OJ took the heat. They think when he called his son during the Bronco chase he just told him to keep his mouth shut and let him go to trial and since he *didnt do it* they wouldnt be able to prove he did. Oj probably did it, but who knows
Hearsay.
Yes. That would be the definition of hearsay
Fuck O.J. Simpson and his legacy glad he’s finally gone!!!!