| NEWS OJ Simpson has passed.

 

[OldPlayer]

Definitely an event that increased the racial divide. Rodney King incident was another of those fracturing, devisive events.

Fun fact: I was in California for both. In San Diego as OJ was riding in the backseat coming down the San Diego Freeway and in LA for the Rodney King riots.

 

[Krimson]

Fun fact: I was in California for both. In San Diego as OJ was riding in the backseat coming down the San Diego Freeway and in LA for the Rodney King riots.

Saw OJ and Todd Christensen together on bourbon Street right before the murders, they were both polite autographing stuff for people, I just bought them a beer and I was 16, gotta love bourbon st

 

[24and7]

Rumor has it OJ had a gun to his head in the white bronco that day.. a good fast police car and a pit maneuver might’ve saved us from the “trial of the century” and the strife it caused..

 

[Rolltide24]

Definitely an event that increased the racial divide. Rodney King incident was another of those fracturing, devisive events.

I saw Rodney in the gym of the Marriott Marquis in Manhattan one night, would have been around 2010-2011. I walked up and said hello to make sure it was him. We small talked for a few minutes. He passed away pretty soon after.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Watching the UCLA vs. USC game in 1969.

The ESPN coverage is sickening. Best to let him fade into bolivian, to quote Mike Tyson.

 

[UAgrad93]

One of those events where it seemed like the world stopped, both the chase and the verdict. I was in a condo in Destin a HS friend during the chase, we were glued to the TV all evening. The verdict came when we were on a field trip loading up the buses to go back to the HS after a visit to Faulkner State Community College in Bay Minette. Someone on another bus had a radio on as the verdict was read and they relayed it to the other buses as a storm cloud opened up overhead. Reactions were mixed, most were stunned. The whole ordeal from start to finish was surreal. And Norm Macdonald skewering him every weekend on SNL in a way only Norm could... weird, but that will also always stick out in my mind.

I was in the classroom either teaching a Health or History class and we had the TV on and muted right before the crawler came across saying a verdict was eminent. The reactions were mixed in my classroom and there were a few faculty members that used it to act like a total fool in the hallways “during class!”

 

[footballer]

I don't remember where I was exactly the day of the "chase", at work most likely. Did catch a few minutes of it on the news later that evening after I got home from work. The chase , the trial and the verdict seemed a farce to me. Under the Big Top.

 

[TerryP]

I don't remember where I was exactly the day of the "chase", at work most likely

I'm a little surprised I do remember. That Rex store I was working at was the Man Men of appliance stores. By that, I mean the "extra-curricular" activities enjoyed at work.

Thinking back ... loved that job as a college student. You'd be shocked at the amount of money you could make in the early to mid 90's at those stores...especially as a college student. You could make $250-$400 on a weekend, 14 hours, easily.

 

[OldPlayer]

Rumor has it OJ had a gun to his head in the white bronco that day.. a good fast police car and a pit maneuver might’ve saved us from the “trial of the century” and the strife it caused..

1. He did have a gun to his head
2. All police cars are fast - faster than the Bronco
3. It was a slow-speed chase. A pit maneuver would have exposed the police to gunfire

 

[24and7]

1. He did have a gun to his head
2. All police cars are fast - faster than the Bronco
3. It was a slow-speed chase. A pit maneuver would have exposed the police to gunfire

A self fulfilling prophecy

 

[50+yeartidefan]

These two events began the undoings that MLK Jr and the Civil Rights Movement had worked so hard to bring race relations together.

They were never gonna be "together ". Both sides have such racism bases...

 

[BAMAneck]

 

[ElephantStomp]

What a horrible Tragedy indeed.. loved him in the naked gun..
Whether OJ did it or didn’t do it, he is being judged for that now… I blame the mainstream media for what they did to America… they used that case to divide the country racially..

I think the cops did that with Rodney King

 

[UAgrad93]

 

[UAgrad93]

 

[bama alum]

The admission we all knew...

Simpson lawyer changes stance on suit payout

The executor of the O.J. Simpson estate reversed his stance on working to prevent a payout of a $33.5 million judgment awarded by a jury to the Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman families in a wrongful death lawsuit.

www.espn.com

 

[OldPlayer]

The admission we all knew...

Simpson lawyer changes stance on suit payout

The executor of the O.J. Simpson estate reversed his stance on working to prevent a payout of a $33.5 million judgment awarded by a jury to the Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman families in a wrongful death lawsuit.

www.espn.com

“. . . in accordance with Nevada law.” Doesn’t sound like the Goldman’s are first in line.

 

[Kamikazi18627]

Be like..."hell yeah i did it...you idiots fell for my story.."

If the "People vs OJ Simpson" on Netflix has any validity to it, not a chance. Dude was too much of a narcissist to actually admit to any wrong doing.