How Good Was OJ Simpson Actually?
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- How Good Was OJ Simpson Actually?
How Good Was OJ Simpson Really? This video is talking about O.J. Simpson THE FOOTBALL PLAYER. A deeper look at O.J. Simpsons hall of fame career BEFORE the trial. But I also discuss his very prevalent off the field life in this video as well…
RIP OJ 🙏🏾
Great video bro!
Google the Willie Jackerson Experiment podcast
I shared your video over to my Facebook Podcast page
Burn in Hell OJ
Until someone hits 2000 yards in a 14 game season don't want to hear it .....
Impossible….. seasons are longer
Dickerson passed him in 15 games. To your point, thats not 14.....But thats as close as you'll ever see
@@sugabearchiraq5755 What he's saying is not impossible at all. Everybody that plays has that opportunity every season. What he said is "Until hits 2000 yards in 14 games...." What he means by that is until somebody breaks OJ's mark in the 14th game of the season, he doesnt want to hear about it" Meaning, hitting that mark, and then theres still 3 games left in the season
@@jeffwatts1126 I know what he’s saying. That’s why I said impossible seasons are longer
Plus most of the NFL 🏈 stadium were outdoor in o.j Simpson Era, ❄️ snow 🌧 🌦
I remember watching OJ pass the 2000 yard mark. It was December 16, 1973. I remember the date because it was my dad's birthday. Buffalo's Offensive line was the "Electric Company", and OJ was "The Juice". Juice ran behind Joe DeLamielleure and Reggie McKenzie as guards. Oddly enough, the most rememberable OJ runs were when he would cutback across the field. He had a long stride and bent forward at the waist. He looked a bit like an animation. Dude was spectacular. ( That is no commentary on his later infamy). If you want a RB with an opposite running style for comparison, Eric Dickerson was nearly opposite in style. Dickerson ran straight up...also very fast. OJ was bent forward.
I was there also my birthday is on December 14....what a great day ...but man it was snowing and windy and 🥶
I did too. It was amazing.
OJ was the best player in the NFL for about 5 years in early and mid 70’s. He was all the Bills had and teams couldn’t stop him. Rushed for over 200 in a game against the Steelers when they didn’t give up 200 in 4 games.
Love the Stat just hate it's against Pittsburgh being that I'm a diehard Steeler fan😂
Lol it happens @@Rahchasportstalk
Usc & Buffalo bill o.j Simpson was unstoppable in the 1970s 🏃♂️ running with the football,
Oj is Mr football!
love o.j simpson super grat college& nfl football career@@rickyhollis4892
Anyone who asks this question never saw the man play. I have been watching football for over 50 years and OJ was the best RB I ever saw.
I grew up in the '70s and NEVER got to see OJ play. I think it was regional (I grew up in Oklahoma). I didn't know he played for the Niners until last year. I missed his ENTIRE career.
(Off field and after career aside) OJ was a COMPLETE RB. He could run inside or out, could catch out of the backfield, had world class speed and tremendous stamina.
Teams knew OJ was getting the ball and still couldn’t stop him.
I grew up in Mississippi and got to watch O.J play a lot. NBC had one regional and one national broadcasts every other week during that era. The Bills were on a lot of national broadcasts in the early to mid 70's due to O.J. CBS had the NFC double header the other week. @@anthonysutter1078
Ikr. We all (1973-1978) wanted to be OJ Simpson, until we saw Tony Dorsett and Earl Campbell.
❤️ o.j Simpson my hero,❤️ watching 👀 o.j Simpson 🏃♀️ running with 🏈
OJ could take it to the house anytime he had the ball in his hands
Among those of us old enough to watch OJ Simpson play live, he is remembered for being a great running back, powerful and graceful, on a relatively poor team, broke and set rushing records, and made the Hall of Fame for good reason.
Period.
The Juice...
He deserved to make the HOF no question
As an NFL fan in the 70's, OJ was just spectacular. When his downfall came, it was such a profound disappointment. He was just such an easy guy to love, and to root for, and to be awed by. To this day, my disappointment over all of it stays with me. He really was a great player.
Yep, power, speed, shake, he had it all and with all the commercials and what not it felt like he was part of the family. We all loved him. I remember waking up to the radio that Monday morning, June 13, 1994 hearing that his wife was murdered and feeling so bad for OJ. And then a few days later it became quite clear what really happened.
He was at least as good a murderer as he was a running back. The Lions defence had nothing on the LAPD, and he still managed to slip that tackle. I always thought it was bad of him to have done that, for the record.
I've seen a lot of OJ content. I think you did a good job of separating his off the field issues with his football career. He was the best player in his era. He ran the ball without any threat of a passing game. Everybody in the stadium knew he was getting the ball, and the best defenses of his day still couldn't stop him.
He was the second best Ive ever seen, only Jim Brown was better, with apologies to Sayers, Sweetness, Sanders and all the other greats
❤️ o.j Simpson my hero, was unstoppable 🏃♂️ 🏃♀️ running with the 🏈 college& NFL
@@LoydKline-uw4no It's hard to find a better RB than OJ. I remember years ago (when OJ was retired in his 40s), he was talking to Marcus Allen (who was in his prime). MA said something that OJ took offense to, so he challenged MA to go outside and race. MA wanted no part of that because he knew that old man OJ (bad knees and all) could still smoke MA. You could see it in MA's face. :)
I saw that on a behind the scenes clip from when they were eon that show First & 10 in the 80s.
@@broncobilly4029 usc brothers 🏃♀️ running backs, 🏃♂️ o.j Simpson, Charles white, Marcus Allen, Anthony Davis, Ricky bell, usc running 🏃♀️ back used to owned the Heisman trophy 🏆, I remember o.j.Simpson winning the ABC athletes contest, superstar , don't remember like o.j Simpson won 🏆 the 100 yards dash contest , 1974, or 1975 , whatever , Marcus allen great Oakland raider days
I’m from Buffalo and still to this day you hear old guys tell us he was the greatest lol. He’s one of those dudes you could drop into
2024 NFL football and he would absolutely destroy everyone.
Got that right
A great football player and a despicable human being.
9.2 sprinter
@@billmorrison9068 He definitely could go the distance anytime he touched the ball.
@@MsTdougherty
Two opinions……one happens to be right!
What many people don’t realize about OJ was that added to his size (6’ 3” 225 pounds), he was one of the fastest running backs EVER. His last year at USC, he finished 4th in the U.S. Olympic trials meaning if he had not turned pro, he would have been part of the U.S. 4x100 meter relay team.
The Olympic Trials statement is not true. He was an NCAA All-American in the 100, and he was an NCAA champion on USC's 440-yard relay that set a world record. You can check all of these facts on the Track & Field News website. His height/weight is listed as 6'2 212 pounds on the Pro Football Reference website. I didn't look these up today, my friend. I knew them already. OJ ran 9.4 in the 100-yard dash. A stud, for sure.
I was fortunate to get to see him play in his prime, he was a great running back. I grew up during the 70s playing football and I would try to emulate his moves. To this day I think the 3 best running backs that I have ever seen were O.J., Walter Payton and Earl Campbell, you could also throw Barry Sanders in with that group as well. I did not get to see Jim Brown play, so I can't include him based upon who I watched, but clearly from a historical perspective Jim Brown was the best.
You definitely picked the four greatest RBs of all time imo. I’ve always said, give me Earl Campbell, Barry Sanders and Walter Payton (or Bo Jackson), and that’s a team that will never lose.
Jim Brown was a social phenomenom. For blacks he meant everything. He had the talent, but he was still hit as hard as possible by those by-gone day ruffians. He gained most of his yards on hard hard contact. Yes, Jim Brown - well if they gave a trophy to running backs it would be the Jim Brown trophy.
@@terrenceolivido741 He was the all time leading rusher when he retired. He won the MVP 3 times, and was still young when he retired. In addition to being a great football player, he was as an outstanding Lacrosse player in college as well. He also played Fullback back in those days the fullback was just as integral as the halfback. Now both the fullback and halfback have pretty much been eliminated. It is just the single running back position these days.
@@StevenC32LaCrosse ! very very much like each man is a crazy running back. I played it a little. fit OJ to a " t ".
❤️ 1960s/ 1970s college & NFL football 🏃♂️running back
Huge Bills fan. Incredible running back on a very poor Bills team. Fast and powerful runner. MVP on a 1 to 2 win season is hard to do.
Living in Chicago, I fervently believe that Walter Payton was the greatest all-around running back I have ever seen. But there was no running back more exciting to watch than the Juice.
Earl Campbell best I ever watched.
Walter was and is the RB goat! But the juice was electric. No doubt. Earl was a man playing with boys though.
If had to pick one MVP running back for any situation, including tough yardage in red zone, it wouldn't be OJ. Maybe Eric Dickerson or Barry Sanders
@@jude999open your fucking eyes!
Barry Sanders. OJ, then whoever you like.
I promise you OJ was everything during his time. He was Jim Brown and Gayle Sayers rolled into one. The critical thing is mentioned here. ... whatever you think of OJ personality, he stands up to the best running backs ever. period. He gave 1000 percent on the field -always. the narrator talks about brain damage, well OJ - for all his grace and speed - look at how tough he was with contact - fought his way through the toughest tacklers. One thing that was hilarious was his legs. ... he had skinny seemingly undeveloped legs. So when he made contact it was like a boxing match as he used his upper bady strength to fend off tacklers. When OJ went over 2000 yards for the season he did that with the last game played essentially on ice. Strangely, that game illustrated more than anything his particular genius. It turned out he was the most gifted man on the field precariously balancing himself on ice and rushing for more than 100 yards. that game and season was the equivalent of the Dolphins perfect season. forever etched in history.
You forgot his acting career. I saw him in the 70s and especially followed the 2,003 yard season. He had power and grace - an amazing athlete.
We are keeping comments On the Field. Peace.
Loved OJ. Read his biography back in the 70's. He was my hero!
As a football player, O.J. is one of the best ever. No question.
I'm 69....prime of NFL days 70's. Thanks. You did a great job here. Keep 'em comin.
i bet youre pretty upset with the NFL today... it's a demonic circus of fake referees
Interesting theory on CTE being the catalyst in the murders. First thing that would be brought up to dispute that testimony would probably be that OJ was also an experienced film actor and sideline reporter who passed rather unsuspecting as a well adjusted person. It’s more believable that and this is coming from Nicole’s therapist that retired athletes living well off still have a superiority complex. OJ even replied to his civil disposition that he would never beg Nicole to reconcile, knowing he can get hot younger women in the snap of a finger. The CTE can be thrown out in a would be trial. Simpson was in complete control of his impulses.
The DNA did not match, it was close but not a match. OJ has a son with violent tendencies who absolutely hate that Goldman fellow. Cops knew OJ didn’t do it but went after him as revenge over OJ getting his son lawyered up as well as out of California before police could fs him. No CYE scamboogery will change my mind. OJ was innocent. No I am not black, not a libtard. Neon the people I associate even agrees with me on this because their culture assumes blacks are guilty and they back the blue without an original thought. I came to this conclusion by ignoring the media and paying attention to the trial and noticing the world salad spewed by prosecutors and witnesses dancing around the DNA being close but no match.
there is a mystery always. maybe a combination of the two. ..maybe. or maybe the therapist was 1000percent correct. I think women are responsible because they encourage macho men and believe they can control their ego.
There would be no team in Buffalo today if it weren't for O.J. Simpson.
Thurman Thomas vs o.j Simpson who was better??
@LoydKline-uw4no Thurman no doubt was very good, Hall of Famer, played on overall better team at the time, but OJ put Buffalo on the NFL map at the time of the merger and resulted in them building the current stadium. No OJ at that time, stadium probably doesn't get built and Bills probably would have been out of Buffalo .
@@LoydKline-uw4no OJ Simpson no question. He was a helluva lot faster than Thomas by a long shot.
Nice video. It's hard to believe now but Simpson was tremendously popular. He had TV commercials (Hertz) and was in movies (The Naked Gun). Now that seems like it was 1,000 years ago.
I agree. I'm glad you took on an uncomfortable subject. Everyone loved OJ until he was rejected and I honestly feel he went insane. almost 30 years ago to the day is when his downfall started.
yeah, we are dinosaurs.
OJ was good at running. Decent at catching. Amazing at killing.
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LoL!!!!!!!
LOL!!
Forgot to used the word great as college & NFL running back 🏃♂️ with the football
@@LoydKline-uw4no yeah. For the Hesimann, I heard he was neck and neck with the competition.
Probably the greatest running back of his era? He WAS the greatest at that time!
he was the most fluid runner I ever saw. His style of running was like no one else.
I thought that too until Eric Dickerson came along. The most beautiful runner, to me.
Mercury Morris was visually more arresting and out rushed OJ everytime Miami and Buffalo met
He was a "slasher" in more ways than one .
Not a proper comment we are talking about his football career 🫠🫠🫠🫠
@@kevinkopko7887 You better believe it is proper. You have to evaluate the entire person. Everyone has some positive qualities. Mussolini made the trains run on time .
@@kevinkopko7887 Hitler rebuilt the German army. He's still an evil person.
On the gridiron, in his prime, he was an un f’ing believable running back. He was as smooth and fast a runner as there ever was.
In no particular order: Brown, Sayers, Payton, Simpson
Hard to argue with your list, but there have been so many great ones. LaDanian Tomlinson, Marcus Allen, Chris Johnson for a few years. Earl Campbell. And so many others.
Brown, Sanders, Simpson, everyone else
Walter Payton was the most incredible athlete, the hardest never say die fight for every yard player, the best blocking back in NFL history, he could catch the ball as good as any NFL running back in NFL history, and he could throw also.
In a particular order : brown-OJ-sayers & Payton!
Great video dude I subscribed
I was there at Shea stadium when he broke the 2,000yards in a season rushing title he was smooth as a runner
That’s incredible
He slid in the snow for most of the yards
Wow legendary & lucky
Who was better Thurman Thomas or o.j Simpson for Buffalo 🐃 bill running 🏃♂️ back
@@LoydKline-uw4no I would say oj he didn't have much of a team around him ....Thomas went to 4 super bowls didn't win one they , those teams had a lot of ballplayers
Well done video. I like your personal viewpoint within the storyline facts. Tragic stories about sports stars and their careers are very attractive to my right hand's mouse-clicking hand!
Thank you I’m glad you appreciate the content!
Can't deny what he did on the field.
No - but today's woke culture will always try to do that because they believe in suspending history that they dont like
that is right - what he did on the field will never be forgotten.
Was in Rich Stadium for the 7th game of the '73 season. MNF with Cosell and co. with the Chiefs in town. Dude reached a 1,000 yards during the game. Got 2,003 in 14! HELL YEA HE WAS CRAZY!!!
I'm old enough to witness his career. He was on a terrible team so everybody knew he was getting the ball. Didn't matter. So what made him great? He had a pattern of loping to the hole and then bursting through it, often with a juke move. Pure artistry
sigh ..., OJ was magic. it was insane. you can still see it today looking at these films.
My FAVORITE RB ALL-TIME RB! The greatest RB of the 1970's! 2,000 yards in just 14 games. OUTSTANDING! Not a monster/ murderer to me! The law says he's an innocent man. And that's enough for me! Opinions are like assholes! EVERYBODY HAS ONE! R.I.P. OJ! The juice is finally loose!
THE 1$T NFL/professional athlete to have an athletic shoe contract endorsement. I wore his signature 'Juicemobiles' myself while playing my first year of junior league football in 1976.
Considering how sorry the Buffalo Bills were in the 70s, Simpson's statistics are off the chain. His unique running style was subtle but very elusive. Simpson's backfield teammate, fullback Jim Braxton. . an excellent blocker, paved the way for Simpson, opening holes, and rarely gets mentioned. Like him or not. . .one of the greatest football players, ever, period. His personal life, a different story, of course. . . and one that severely tarnished his reputation/accomplishments.
This man ran 273 yards in a single game, 2000 yards in a 14 game season the juice was a beast.
OJ was found not guilty!! He is one of the greatest in NFL history!
YeH but the CTE made OJ do it...if you wanna blame someone, blame it on the CTE ...brain damage effects your behavior and, another variable to his sudden demeanor shift has to the numerous conclusions ...Nobody is perfect correct?
haha ...!
Even though anybody could tell he was guilty I still feel like legally he shouldn't have been convicted based on the testimony of Fuhrman. Man did that idiot Fk that investigation up
Look brother I am hands down part of and proud to be in Bills Mafia but c’mon man you know this man did it
@DerrickRandolph He protected his son who must've got CTE thru DNA. There's a lot of good reasons to look at him. Look it up bro. 😉
5:18 That is world class speed on display.
Also @ 4:15💯
Easily a top 3 halfback all time. Still the highest yards/game in history, 1973. He was a real slasher.
Oj is the reason i started watching football..i still remember it very clearly, my first football game i ever watched was with my uncle and his friends around 1972 or 73 buffalo vs Oakland and oj was spectacular!!
If you remember it very clearly, wouldn't you remember the year?
It was 1972. OJ had 144 yards on 28 carries. The Raiders won the game, 28-16 thanks to scoring 3 TD's in the 4th quarter...
You were a little nervous yet you delivered great commentary on a very controversial public figure.
A controversial white public figure!
I was a wee pup when he was in his prime, & I don't remember watching him play, but he seemed larger than life in his post playing career(s). Besides the Hertz commercials & Naked Gun movies(among others?), he popped up here & there as a lot of football icons do. I remember being shocked with the murder charges in the 90's & remember listening to tje car chase & watching it on TV during the Rockets/Knicks championship game, they had the game boxed on top(at least in Cali, where I was living at that time). Just goes to show, ya never know, he was a charmer.
Think about it, after watching this OJ video, the Juice night Not even be the murderer! Wouldn't it be great if one day find out that They got it wrong, and someone else did it? Yes,.....1 day the actual killer may confess to the murder o to Ron & Nicole ...I certainly Hope so....Doesn't anybody else feel the same way?
Only time he was caught from behind was in that white bronco remember the 2003 in 14 games had 200+ against the steel curtain that yr
O.j Simpson outrun college & NFL football 🏈 defensive football player& police
LOL!!!!!
Good video, good take,, CTE definitely. Went crazy.lost his mind. Sad for families,Ron@ Nicole.
that's BS. He snapped in jealous rage.
To anyone who doubts his talent; 2003 yards-14 games on a team whose entire offensive game plan was;
1st down; OJ in tailback following Braxton between Guard and Tackle.
2nd down; OJ in HB around end.
3rd down; (when needed) another handoff to OJ, or fake, then screen pass to him out on the wing. *Maybe* hit the WR if the D was overplaying the run.
If the QB Ferguson threw 20 times in a game it was rare and shocking....
EVERYONE knew he was coming, and no one could stop him.
I'm 5'5 and one day i took two steps for every five yards for forty yards. Thats the standard i use. i had the exact o.j. simpson # 32 picture on my wall when i was 12.
I remember him first as a sideline announcer and always enjoyed him.
OJ said it all when asked about race " I think i transcend race. " God bless you OJ, as that is what we want everyone to see. ... they have played the race card in the US from the beginning.
Top 10 all time no matter what
#1 Player of the 70's and Top 3 of all-time IMO...
He was the best of the best. He was always exciting to watch. The Hertz rental car commercials were fun to watch too.
yeah the Hertz commercials were genius. we all loved the legend of OJ at that time. he was super handsome and very articulate.
He wanted to finish his career as a 49er. He grew up in San Francisco, was a Niner fan.
He’d get 130 yards in a game and we’d be disappointed he didn’t reach 200! 😅. Once he got into open field it was like humans trying to catch a gazelle
Good show.👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Actually in a kinda weird way his prison time was associated with the double hom. He was found at fault in a civil suit and alot of his personal Memorabilia was auctioned off to pay up. He found one of the collectors at a show and was trying to rob his stuff to get it back. Thats what he did time for.
But it wasn't, though.OJ was caught on-camera stealing memorabilia.He wasn't caught on-camera slicing and dicing nicole and ron.
The way he could knife through any defense made him an absolute killer……..
i see a lot of commenters observing the obvious ( which can be the hardest to observe ), OJ had a subtlety to his running. he seemed to disgard tacklers with the subtlest of moves.
His slashing ability is second to none for sure………
Ok Norm, LOL.
I was looking for this video because his career is something that needs to be studied
Good piece! When I was little as a Chicago Bears fan Walter Payton was always my fav RB, but OJ and Dallas Cowboys Tony Dorsette were a close 2nd.
In the most contested top of all times argument in all of sports OJ has always been my number one. Shout out to Jim Brown and Bo Jackson.
Jim brown & OJ Simpson were dammed near wilt chamberlain like in their durability! The same cannot be said of Bo Jackson!
2,000 yards in a 14 game season was a much bigger accomplishment than most records today. His short video on the Top 100 NFL Players of All Time is excellent.
It's like getting away with murder, really..................
@@vangroover1903 Slashed defenses like it was personal…
@@r.williamcomm7693 Or like they were his wife
@@vangroover1903 Yes there’s zero doubt in my mind that OJ was guilty. The Top 100 video on OJ was part of a really good series & is excellent because it acknowledges that the double murder case makes it nearly impossible to talk about him as one of the great RBs. If you search CZcams for “OJ Simpson Top 100” it’s the first result. It’s only a few minutes long. That entire series for the NFL’s 90th year was better than the way the did it for the 100th year in my opinion. But I have to admit that I love OJ jokes. Norm McDonald had good ones.
As a kid in the 60s and 70s I lived in Virginia and was hard to watch OJ on tv with so few channels. But I remember every year on thanksgiving day they allay showed a buffalo game. And with that only one game a year I loved watching OJ. He never disappointed. Was a thrill to watch once a year.
(Insert murder pun here) 👇
He was a great at cutting and running.
Bro next up 💯
Preciate that 🙏🏾
I grew up in the 1970’s, I didn’t see him often because I lived in the south and the Bills didn’t come on often down here. But when I did see him, all I remember was he running on 1st and 2nd down and them passing to him on 3rd. I don’t think the Bills had any other option. He clearly was the man.
OJ runs like the police are chasing him!!
They called the Bills offensive line "The Electric Company" because they kept The Juice running
It’s crazy how Keeping up with the Kardashians came from this
Lmao they really got all that fame off the OJ trial
i heard that 43 people became millionaires off the OJ trial!
Best running back I ever saw in my lifetime.
You cannot take away what he did on the football field. OJ led a crazy life - in the end. He was a super-star.
I had every copy of sports. Illustrated, when OJ ran for over 2000 yd, it was amazing.
Did you get any of the bloodstained souvenir copies after he was acquitted?
Good video!! Can remember watching O.J. while growing up during the 1970s. Yep - remember the murder trials as well. Was in the US Army at the time and stationed in South Korea. Day the verdict was to be announced a warning went out to all installations mainly directed at the HWYTESES service members to be prepared for any type of backlash should the verdict go the "unexpected" way. Once I returned to the states and returned home to Ohio I went to the Hall of Fame in Canton, OH. Yep - his statue was SEPARATED from everyone else's, kind of like the Hall of Fame did not know how or what to do with it. Last time I was at the Hall of Fame was about 5-years ago and the statue was still separated but not in the way it was back in the 1990s.
What a great story that’s some really interesting insight I’m not sure I could find many other places. I didn’t know they completely separated his statue in the HOF. Glad you enjoyed the video as well!
YeH but off my bench & stay oFf my bench....unless you are Johnnie Bench....SO, Stay OFF my bench!...it that clear?
OJ was one special RB that made the fans come to their feet every time he touched the football and beloved by many after his retirement until 1994 when his world come crashing down on him
Pete Rose isn't allowed in the baseball hof for gambling , which millions of people go to Reno every year and do , but OJ is still in the football hall of fame even though he did something heinous .
Something is terribly wrong with this scenario .
Greatest slashing running back of all time.
Great points made in this video. Basically, we celebrate a guy for success in a sport where he has to bash other guys with his head in order to succeed, and then later in his life when he can't control his actions because of chronic traumatic brain injury, we call him a failure. There's something wrong with that.
OJ's record will never be broken. He ran for 2003 yards in 14 games!!!
Back in the day, it was always a joy to watch him play…loved him in Naked Gun too…
Next to Jim Brown he’s about the best I’ve seen!
If white america could get off race & 1994: they could see this too!
Am I the only one in the civilized world willing to mention OJ & football in the same sentence?
I was born during that MVP season of '73', so at 50 years old, I'm not old enough to have seen him play. My memories of him were as Frank Dreben's bumbling detective partner in the hilarious Naked Gun movies 😂
I was a kid when OJ played for the Niners.
Never thought much of him.
This was a good video.
He played injured with the Niners.
O.J. had severe knee injuries while playing for a horrendous 2-win Niner team. He was a shadow of his former self.
OJ had Jim Brown's tackle breaking ability with Barry Sanders moves and Gale Sayers breakaway speed.
Simpson's first year in Buffalo was wasted by Bills HC John Rauch who did not use him in an offense that would highlight his talents. It took the hiring of Lou Saban who focussed on constructing a powerful offensive line specifically to use Simpson more effectively that Simpson's talent was more fully utilized.
People forget how powerful a runner he was. Still the best running back I ever saw play.
Eric Dickerson >>> Orenthal James...............and Eric never done killt nobody
How good was OJ actually? He actually LEFT all the evidence at the crime scene to make the prosecution think "Ain't nobody this stupid to leave a glove and drops of blood on their car. Nah OJ didn't do this."
Not only a great player, but the most marketable player of all-time despite playing before the social media craze, only Broadway Joe Namath could match or come close to his appeal.
In his heyday day he did not come across as a “crazy man.” In fact, he was very intelligent, very well spoken.
I watched him play. From his first game at USC, he was compared to Jim Brown. After his last one in the NFL, everyone else was compared to OJ. There have been some great RB's since him, and the game has changed so much that comparison is irrelevant, but OJ is the GOAT.
Very few could knife their way through a defence like Orenthal could. His ex-wife and that poor waiter kid would say the same if they could. He slashed them harder than he slashed the Lions defence for 273 yards rushing.
Braxton was a very good blocking back for OJ.
gotta have those blockers. God bless them.
Fantastic video this man was the best he had speed power and elusiveness
OJ Simpson is the most gifted athlete I have ever seen on a football field.
They drafted Michigan and Michigan State offensive lineman and Jim Braxton
I can sure attest to this, when kids played pick up football back then, in the street or on the biggest patch of lawn in the neighborhood, the kid who got 1st pick to say who they were during the game, that kid ALWAYS said, "I'm O.J. Simpson." Every kid wanted to be O.J. it was simple as that. Whoever the other kids chose meant nothing, cause only 1 kid was O.J.
OJ was a real killer on he field. I remember seeing him knife thru defenses like nobody since. His cut and slash style was second to none.
you sure can do " deadpan. " ...
How original!! Yawn...
The truth is the offensive linemen didn't want to block for OJ.the new coach came in and threatened to make trades for guys who wouldn't block.reggie Makenzie should be a Hall of famer too
OJ and Tony Dorsett are the two prettiest runners of all time
If the glove don't fit you must aquit.....why didn't the prosecutor say , if you had the knife you must get life.
OJ Simpson is one of the Greatest running backs ever IMO top two ever and the man was the truth on the field College and the Pros.
He had that KIL.LER instinct!
I was in the 9th grade when the OJ verdict was given in live television. All the teachers got phone calls that there was a verdict so they held everyone past the bell to watch it. And when it was read there was an explosion of joy and it sickened me. That entire infamous situation was f****d.
The reaction of much of the Black community shocked me at the time. It told me there was a much greater divide in society than i thought. later we found - specifically - that the LA police were incredibly corrupt.
In the mid 90s he performed his greatest feat when he outran the criminal justice system.
273 yards rushing against the Lions in 1975 might be a close second.
The Juice! One of my favorites as a kid
It was amazing how O.J. sliced his way through the defense.