OJ Simpson dead at 76

[LABILLBACKER]

1 hour ago, Doc Brown said:

Great.  Now we'll never find the real killer.

Not finding the killer really Hertz.

[Starr-Bills]

[muppy]

🤭

[BRH]

I’m almost 55. OJ Simpson was the first sports name I ever knew.  I became a Bills fan before I became a sports fan, because my dad watched football on Sundays and I wanted to be with him.  Just watch number 32, he’d say.  That’s OJ.  I bet a lot of you around my age will say the same. 
 

I was a first-year law student at UB when the verdict was announced.  It happened during our Criminal Law class, ironically enough.  And I feel pretty safe in saying that the reaction was a lot more mixed there than it was in any other 1L crim law class in the country that day, only because a good many of us - it’s still a very local school - had grown up with him as our first sports hero.  And though deep down we all knew he was guilty, we also desperately wanted that not to be true - but we wouldn’t admit that to anyone who wasn’t one of us. 
 

As the years have gone by, of course, I’ve only become more convinced of his guilt, and come to terms with it.  So when I heard the news of his death, I felt…pretty much nothing.  The OJ I idolized as a child died for me 30 years ago.

[Fr. Jerk]

[Tulsabillsfanz]

I was a big OJ fan growing up. We moved out of Buffalo around the time he started playing for the Bills & he was the main reason any Buffalo games were shown nationwide, which was my only chance to watch Bills.
 

Growing up a big sports fan, my childhood heroes (other than my dad) were athletes & many also turned out to be great people, like Lou Brock (St Louis Cardinals), the Selmon Brothers (Oklahoma football), etc.,  However, not all of my childhood heroes were worth idolizing and some are now not worth remembering….OJ tops that list for me. In the end, my only wish for OJ was for a deathbed confession, but that apparently didn’t happen, or his family will never share it.  
 

 

[The Helmet of]

Does this mean it's acceptable to wear an OJ jersey again?

[muppy]

18 minutes ago, MarkKelso'sHelmet said:

Does this mean it's acceptable to wear an OJ jersey again?

I have seen a  #32 jersey in Orchard Park at a game. I have a friend who told me once she would have no problem "embracing" him if she were to ever meet him...I told her I would about face turn away. ZERO desire to talk, interact, meet Nothing. The thought is moot now.

 

Court-TV has a retrospective of the case including graphic photos if anyone is interested. Lord have mercy. I didn't need to see that.

[Billsatlastin2018]

[Just Jack]

 

[sleeby]

Well, at least we still have Kato Kaelin.  

[Boatdrinks]

4 hours ago, BillsPride12 said:

I highly recommend people give this Documentary a full watch and then come back and give your opinions on what a great guy OJ was

This was a good documentary. Very well done imo

[ExiledInIllinois]

[machine gun kelly]

19 hours ago, Dablitzkrieg said:

Rest in piss.  At least he has eternity in Hell to look forward to

I just opened this and hysterically laughed.  He was a great player, and a horrible human being.  Rot in hell.  Burn in hades.

[BuffaloBillyG]

10 hours ago, Fr. Jerk said:

What? Johnny Cochran has been there for years.

[Sweats]

Think of him what you will, but the legal system found him innocent. That's not to say the legal system is not broken, however, he was judged by a jury of his peers and was found not guilty......i, however, think he's guilty as hell, but i was not on the jury panel, i only heard what the media expressed for the trial and did not have to make the decision of innocent or guilty. 

 

Now, OJ may have been found innocent in the eyes of the law, but he was definitely found guilty in public opinion. 

[Pirate Angel]

waiting on the autopsy to confirm CTE and possible outcomes to the sport as a result.

[Just Jack]

O.J. Simpson’s legacy rang loudest where his death created silence (yahoo.com)

 

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If you're the Buffalo Bills or San Francisco 49ers, the two teams Simpson played for during his NFL career, you say ... nothing. As of Thursday evening, neither team has released a single statement or posted anything on their website acknowledging Simpson.

 

[Terry Tate]

To paraphrase Bette Davis, “You should never say anything bad about the dead, only good. OJ Simpson is dead. Good. “

[Bruffalo]

2 hours ago, Pirate Angel said:

waiting on the autopsy to confirm CTE and possible outcomes to the sport as a result.

Nothing will happen to the sport. 

 

We already have overwhelming evidence that CTE effects impulse control, mood, and behavior.  Hell, we already have a confirmed killer (Aaron Hernandez) with CTE and it's changed very little. 

 

I love football, I have no regrets playing it, I don't want my kid playing it though.