‘It was about a month ago, Joe DeLamielleure said, when he got a call about his former Buffalo Bills teammate O.J. Simpson. Simpson’s health was deteriorating. J.D. Hill, another former Buffalo teammate of both men, contacted DeLamielleure and said O.J. would appreciate him reaching out because, as Hill told his old teammate, “O.J.’s not doing well.” “So I called O.J.,” DeLamielleure, who made the Pro Football Hall of Fame and was Simpson’s most well-known blocker in their 1970s heyday, said in a phone interview Thursday. “It was, ‘How’re you doing?’ Not so much of ‘Hey, I’m sick, buddy.’ We were just checking up on each other. He said he had cancer, but also said, ‘Hey, I’m getting better.’