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NFL Draft 2024: Draft analyst shares latest Buffalo Bills buzz on team’s first round draft plan

‘Even before the Diggs trade, there has been some expectation that the Bills will be aggressive in trying to move up for a wide receiver on Day 1 — but I’m actually hearing the opposite. The Bills might ultimately be content with letting the draft play out and addressing the position at No. 28 — or even possibly trading back. If things go that way, Keon Coleman (Florida State) and Xavier Legette (South Carolina) are worth watching. Buffalo lacks a true boundary X receiver, and both would provide value in that role as strong, physical pass-catchers.’

O.J. Simpson, Bills HOF RB acquitted of double murder, dead at 76 — Reaction

‘Before becoming embroiled in scandal for much of his life after football, Simpson was once a revered public figure, becoming a crossover star on screen, most notably in the movie “The Naked Gun,” while also serving as a spokesman for the car rental company Hertz, among other corporations. He also briefly served as a replacement broadcaster on “Monday Night Football.”’

Death may turn the lights out for good on O.J. Simpson’s tarnished legacy

‘A smile and engaging personality catapulted Simpson to stardom no Buffalo athlete has ever experienced, parlaying a career of running through defenses to running through the airport in a national Hertz car rental commercial, while working as an analyst on Monday Night Football and the NFL on NBC. And then all of that was washed away on June 12, 1994.’

Pfeiffer: Reflections on the ‘Trial of the Century’

‘For close to 10 months, in 1995, as a reporter for WIVB TV/News4Buffalo, I spent an average of 60 hours a week chronicling Simpson’s trial for the slashing murder of his estranged wife and a restaurant waiter. It had been dubbed the “Trial of the Century” (though truth be told it was more the “Trial of the Second Half of the Century,” proceeded in 1935 by the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the accused Lindbergh baby kidnapper).’

O.J. Simpson, capturing the camera’s attention, in high times and low

‘Plenty other Black athletes across the years chased TV and film roles — Sugar Ray Robinson, Bernie Casey and Woody Strode among them. It was never an easy transition. The trained actors always seemed to show up the athlete turned character, quietly proving that acting was a serious craft and intense training was beneficial. O.J. just showed up. He was ready to go. He told friends that he knew all about drama from his upbringing, poor and Black in San Francisco.’

O.J.’s life in Miami: a Kendall house, a Gulliver football son, golf — and the courthouse

“I was amazed at how people flocked to him in public, wanting to say hello and snap a photo. Every time he walked into a room you could feel his aura and hear the whispers — ‘Did he or didn’t he?’” Simpson spent a lot of time playing golf, flashing his famous smile and waving a cigar at onlookers. He was a regular on public courses. His attempts to attain membership at private clubs were repeatedly rejected.

The unfathomable path of O.J. Simpson, who never stopped shocking us’

‘O.J. was as affable in-person as the persona he presented on television despite being one of the most famous athletes-turned-Hollywood-stars you could imagine. On the eve of the Opening Ceremonies of the Barcelona Games that summer, he invited me, Michael Wilbon, David Aldridge and the late Brian Burwell to meet him at a Barcelona nightclub called Up & Down. We couldn’t turn down a night with the Juice, obviously, so we accepted.’

49ers’ historically bad trade for O.J. Simpson was mere blip in his complex life

‘His two seasons with the 49ers, in retrospect, are a mere blip in a polarizing life that had far more captivating chapters: charismatic actor, successful broadcaster, rental-car pitchman, and, for the past 30 years, suspected double-murderer, though a jury acquitted him of the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.’

O.J. Simpson, Football Star Whose Trial Riveted the Nation, Dies at 76

‘The jury in the murder trial cleared him, but the case, which had held up a cracked mirror to Black and white America, changed the trajectory of his life. In 1997, a civil suit by the victims’ families found him liable for the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald L. Goldman, and ordered him to pay $33.5 million in damages. He paid little of the debt, moved to Florida and struggled to remake his life, raise his children and stay out of trouble.’

O.J., Made in America, Made by TV

‘What did people see when they looked at O.J. Simpson? A superstar, a killer, a hero, a liar, a victim, an abuser, an insider, a pariah — often many of these at once. In his fame and infamy, he was an example of what celebrity could make of a person and a symbol of what the media could make of a country.’

Buffalo Bills teammate Joe DeLamielleure details last conversation with O.J. Simpson

‘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.’