November 15th 2023.
On November 6th, former NFL star O.J. Simpson was seen out and about in Las Vegas looking a bit frail. He was hunched over and limping as he exited a black SUV, sporting a gray polo shirt and matching tracksuit. An iPad in his arm completed the ensemble.
Simpson was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in 1969 and played for the organization for eight years before joining the San Francisco 49ers for two more. He was forced to retire in 1979 due to a knee injury.
Simpson is perhaps best known for the low speed car chase that interrupted the 1994 NBA Finals between the Houston Rockets and New York Knicks. According to then Knicks assistant coach Jeff Van Gundy, Simpson's college teammate and driver of Simpson's white Bronco, A.C. Cowlings, the game is partially why the chase happened. Van Gundy said that Cowlings had to turn up the radio so that Simpson could hear the last few minutes of the game.
Simpson's murder trial, in which he was accused of the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ron Goldman, was referred to as the "Trial of the Century". It was during this trial that Simpson's lawyer Johnnie Cochran famously told Simpson to try on the gloves, which spawned the phrase "If the glove don't fit, you must acquit". Cochran also instructed Simpson to show the scars on his legs from the knee surgeries he had in the late 1970s, which Cochran used to plant doubt that Simpson was able to move well enough to commit the murders.
In 2017, Simpson was released from prison after serving nine years for armed robbery and kidnap stemming from an attempt to reclaim sports memorabilia he said was stolen from him. Since his release, Simpson has kept a relatively low profile, but is active on Twitter and other social media platforms, commenting on sports, politics, and occasionally court cases through short videos.
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