OJ Simpson dies at 76

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11 Apr 2024, 9:56 am

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Priscilla Presley is now the last surviving key cast member of the Naked Gun trilogy.

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11 Apr 2024, 10:20 am

What can one say?

If you're over a certain age...he was the greatest guy in the world in the Seventies and Eighties. Good looking football star turned movie and TV actor.

Then all non Black Americans became convinced that he was a murderer.

Then gradually and quietly Black America came to accept that too. Fame followed by infame.

The original trial (still an embarrassment to the California justice system)made great "reality TV".

A nostalgic look back...

https://youtu.be/i5NRWvDy0Ho

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11 Apr 2024, 10:39 am

The Juice has ran dry.

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11 Apr 2024, 11:12 am

It didn’t fit, they did acquit.

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11 Apr 2024, 11:22 am

I still remember when SNL wouldn't stop making sketches about OJ and they were terrible. If it wasn't OJ, it was sketches about the Monica/Lewinsky scandal, which were also terrible.

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11 Apr 2024, 11:47 am

He never found the real killer.

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11 Apr 2024, 1:42 pm

Aspiegaming wrote:

He never found the real killer.

The "real killer" was probably one of those MAGA guys...who beat up on Jussie Smollett...who doubtless belong to the same "small foreign faction" who killed Jon Benet Ramsey, and who also stole the 2020 election from Trump.

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11 Apr 2024, 6:32 pm

The juice has expired.

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12 Apr 2024, 10:41 am

naturalplastic wrote:

https://youtu.be/i5NRWvDy0Ho

A lot of people considered his acquittal revenge for the Rodney King fiasco a few years earlier. His passing has been quite bittersweet here in Buffalo as most people here believe he was guilty but still fondly remember his time with the Bills and how good of an ambassador he was for the city after he retired

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12 Apr 2024, 10:47 am

Rest in peace Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

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12 Apr 2024, 11:07 am

Interesting fact: Ron Goldman was a contestant on Studs, hosted by Mark DeCarlo, who was a big winner on Sale of the Century.

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12 Apr 2024, 7:10 pm

I wonder how much of the settlement the Goldmans actually received.

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13 Apr 2024, 4:23 am

If only Simpson had faced justice in this life. Well, at least his life became sh*t afterwards.

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13 Apr 2024, 2:10 pm

Could't have happened to a nicer guy..

..also; at least OJ can rest easy knowing that his wife and her partner's killer is dead.

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13 Apr 2024, 7:23 pm

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Could't have happened to a nicer guy..

..also; at least OJ can rest easy knowing that his wife and her partner's killer is dead.

(Fine example of gallows humor!)

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13 Apr 2024, 8:40 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:

If only Simpson had faced justice in this life. Well, at least his life became sh*t afterwards.

The Rodney King and LA riots controversy played a part in influencing the acquitting of OJ. At least, that's what mom believes.

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