The O.J. Simpson Appreciation Thread

[DeadlyDynasty]

It's been nearly 40 years since the season that OJ rushed for over 2,000 yards--IN 14 GAMES. FOURTEEN FUCKING GAMES. Throw in the Naked Gun trilogy and I still love the guy.


:toastto The Juice

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[Trainwreck2100]

but he killed his goldigging wife and her gay coke dealer

[DeadlyDynasty]

that bitch was triflin'

[Avante]

The year was 1964/65? I 'm at the West Coast Relays in Fresno Cali, back then it was a big three day track fest. The next event on the track the JC 4x1 relay. Looking at the teams in the program I come to SFCC....Orenthal James Simpson...I thought "cool name". They won and 0.J. handled his second leg. Dude has a huge head.

It wouldn't be until a few years later that I found out while at SFCC he was the nations top JC running back. We all know his USC story.

He did run on a world record 4x1 team and was a legit 9.4 guy. Detroit Lion receiver/world class hurdler Earl McCullouch was on that 4x1 as was Fred Kuller a white cat who had held the JC record in the 100-9.3. The star of the team however was Jamaican Olympic silver/bronze (later on) stud Lennox Miller.

O.J. was big (215) and fast and elusive, yep, the total package. He is the only running back in NFL history to also hold a world record in track.

I have thought that just maybe he also suffers from some sort of brain damage (serious) from his days as a footballer.

I have a cool little book...The Running Backs...that totally breaks it al down. All those cats are there as are Emmitt and Barry and Marcus etc. No O.J.Simpson. You cannot talk NFL running backs and not talk O.J.Simpson.

[vander]

saw title


thought "didn't Avante get pinked?"

[Avante]

saw title


thought "didn't Avante get pinked?"

For a board about as dead as a doornail I'd think you people would enjoy anything. So many of you like you do nothing but bitch. Try adding not being a little wahwahwah. Here I sit a football historian totally up on the right now and little shits like you doing..0...are criticizing...:rolleyes

Don't bother responding I don't like hijacking threads.

[DeadlyDynasty]

I actually enjoyed that little anecdote, Avante. You showed love to The Juice, you're cool in my book:tu

vander is a Chargers fan. Forgive him.

[Avante]

I actually enjoyed that little anecdote, Avante. You showed love to The Juice, you're cool in my book:tu

vander is a Chargers fan. Forgive him.

There's only been a few of them, those guys who when they get the ball you get than feeling of anticipation, you know what I'm talking about. In my football watching days...Gale Sayers, Barry Sanders and O.J.Simpson....you just knew something special was going to happen.

We cool bro:hat

[DeadlyDynasty]

There's only been a few of them, those guys who when they get the ball you get than feeling of anticipation, you know what I'm talking about. In my football watching days...Gale Sayers, Barry Sanders and O.J.Simpson....you just knew something special was going to happen.

We cool bro:hat
and Sweetness. To a lesser extent, Earl Campbell too. He had a short shelf-life due to the beating he took, but he delivered some beatdowns too.

[JoeTait75]

tbh, while O.J.'s 2,000-yard campaign of 1973 is his best-known, his 1975 season might have been even better. Hung 227 yards on the Steel Curtain in Three Rivers that year, too.

[Avante]

and Sweetness. To a lesser extent, Earl Campbell too. He had a short shelf-life due to the beating he took, but he delivered some beatdowns too.

Not knocking Payton/Campbell/Jimmy Brown/Dickerson etc but it was those three who had more of that...can go the distance at any time...thing working. Dickerson had that but he wasn't as exciting to watch doing it....if that makes any sense:rolleyes

[DeadlyDynasty]

tbh, while O.J.'s 2,000-yard campaign of 1973 is his best-known, his 1975 season might have been even better. Hung 227 yards on the Steel Curtain in Three Rivers that year, too.
I saw America's Game: 1974, 75, and 78 Steeler season episodes on NFLN the other day and they talked about that game. Joe Greene was funny as hell when describing it. He just smiled and said, "yeah...sometimes shit happens.":lol

[gaKNOW!blee]

Dude went for 273 on thanksgiving....that's a BAMF right there

[benefactor]

and Sweetness. To a lesser extent, Earl Campbell too. He had a short shelf-life due to the beating he took, but he delivered some beatdowns too.
Required viewing:

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[The Reckoning]

damn that boy carried the ball like a loaf of bread (talking about earl)

[benefactor]

damn that boy carried the ball like a loaf of bread (talking about earl)
:lol I know right...it didn't matter though because he ran over every mother fucker that got close to him.

[DeadlyDynasty]

:lol I know right...it didn't matter though because he ran over every mother fucker that got close to him.
The run at the 5:00 mark is his iconic one...crazy shit

[benefactor]

Yeah...when I watch this clip I usually rewind it a couple of times at that part. I don't know that I've ever seen anyone get run over like that in any game.

If we are ever able to perfect human cloning Earl should be the first in line.

[Bill_Brasky]

Holy shit, once OJ got to that corner it was gamebo......

[Avante]

Not the greatest because he didn't break tackles, but the most exciting runner ever. His stats don't message up because he only played 6 seasons. Yet he's still in the Hall of Fame and here's why...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ftn68PZSws&feature=related

[dbreiden83080]

WOW Who knew OJ played football?

[Bill_Brasky]

Not the greatest because he didn't break tackles, but the most exciting runner ever. His stats don't message up because he only played 6 seasons. Yet he's still in the Hall of Fame and here's why...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ftn68PZSws&feature=related

Oh my god....the very first highlight in that vid is the hardest I've ever seen any linebacker get juked.

[Avante]

Oh my god....the very first highlight in that vid is the hardest I've ever seen any linebacker get juked.

I hear ya!

A few years before Sayers showed up the Bears had this guy...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR1uP9qJ6Lg

...like Sayers he also only had a six season caeer, he was killed in a car wreck. He was out of Florida A&M and had a lot to do with recruiting Bullet Bob Hayes who was also a running back (Dallas made him a receiver).

Getting back to Sayers, he led the nation in the long jump his senior year in high school 24-11 I think it was. His older brother Roger was also a great footballer/sprinter at the U of Omaha, but since he was only 165 pounds there went the NFL. While at U of Omaha Roger did beat Bullet Bob in a 100, one of only two sprinters to ever do that in Hayes college career.

Just think the great Gale Sayers wasn't even the fastest in his family.

[Avante]

Then there's...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMddevnDyb0

He was also a long jumper while at Long Beach State...25-10, his son Eric..27-8.

[benefactor]

Man Sayers was smooth. I've heard play by play guys say that Foster reminds them of Sayers some when he gets in the open field. I can see where they get that now, as they both have very fluid open field cuts that they execute without ever slowing down.

[Avante]

Man Sayers was smooth. I've heard play by play guys say that Foster reminds them of Sayers some when he gets in the open field. I can see where they get that now, as they both have very fluid open field cuts that they execute without ever slowing down.

Very smooth and had that vision all the great ones possess.

People forget that coming out of College Brian Piccolo out of Wake Forest led the nation in rushing. How the Bears ended up with the nations leading rusher, Gale Sayers and Dick Butkus in the same draft...?