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It’s An Awkward Day For USC

O.J. Simpson is arguably the best tailback in USC history and his jersey is still displayed at the Coliseum.

But USC has not mentioned his death today and it’s unlikely to, despite Simpson winning a Heisman Trophy. It’s a difficult issue for USC. Simpson was a great player but his legacy is forever tarnished.

I’m sure there were some awkward conversations in the athletic dept. on how to handle the news. Or not handle the news.

The Heisman Trophy acknowledged Simpson’s death and took heat on social media. USC doesn’t want that.

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76 thoughts on “It’s An Awkward Day For USC”

  1. “The Path of Righteousness” would seem to require the University make a distinction between O. J. the football player and O. J. the lawbreaker and acknowledge the former, while saying some words about staying silent on the latter during this time of his family’s mourning—it’s a tightrope situation but one the University should be prepared to walk…..

    #ButCarolWillChooseToHideInHerOfficeW/DoorsClosed&LightsOut

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    1. And OJ the misogynist wife beater…. what will Carol Folt do? It’s like Senile Joe trying to please the Murderous Muslims of Dearbornistan while not alienating his loyal following of American liberal Jewish Americans.

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      1. SC usually shoots itself in the foot on these matters, silence is the best approach for them, in a couple of days, no one will care.

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      5. …he got it right so it probably was delivered to him via the earpiece he’s wearing….

        #”Sir….RememberThisTime:”Thank”ComesBEFORE”You”

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    2. I hadn’t agreed whole heartedly with you before, Michael. But this really shows what pieces of shit both Carol & Jen are. The Heisman Trophy Trust walked that line very well.

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      1. Hell, if it were up to you, they’d have a statue of this piece of shit in front of the McKay Center.

        My question is, would he be holding a football or a bloody knife ?

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      4. The meat of the matter is a black man MAY have gotten away with killing a white woman. Robert Wagner, Robert Blake, Phil Spector…none of them draw as much ire as OJ.

        Are you wearing your pointy little white hat as you post your comments?

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      8. We may as well, Michael. It won’t matter. The people squawking will never admit a great deal of it has to do with OJ being black.

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      13. Wrong buddy, I don’t like it when anyone gets away with murder, famous or not, and I couldn’t care less if I cheered them on as a kid, killing people is bullshit and I give a flying fuck that he was black, had it been Pat Haden or Bob Chandler or Carson Palmer, I’d still feel the same way.

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      16. Biden & team trying to convince everyone they have lowered inflation! It’s averaged 5.5% under Dementia Joe. It averaged 1.9% under Trump.

        Idiots think it has nothing to do with Biden’s policies.

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    1. I don’t know if it’s true. But it is funny that so many people cry about OJ maybe having gotten away with something, while not giving two shits about the thousands of innocent people who either get convicted every year or take a plea because they don’t like their chances with a public defender.

      Better to let a guilty man go free than convict an innocent. Because if they’re as stupid as OJ was, they’ll do something else.

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      2. And yet no one here is crying about the useless POS cops having done nothing. Just crying about what they believe OJ did. LOL

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      4. May have gotten away with murder ? He did get away with it.

        And Grabbbyy is 100% correct, the cops loved OJ, had he been Joe Average they would have buried him.

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      6. It never looks good when traces of your murdered wife’s blood are found in your shower stall…..and the floor of your car….

        It also doesn’t look great when you put on the gloves saturated in your wife’s blood and give the jury a big smile….. it makes it seem like you’re not too broken up…..

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      8. Bottom line — O. J. was a great running back. Maybe the best. But he was a deeply flawed & screwed up human being.

        [As I recall the evidence, Nicole was throwing her affair with Marcus Allen in O. J.’s face — their home had a giant window in front …and O. J. saw her giving Allen a blowjob while he walked up the sidewalk to the porch for a scheduled pick up of his daughter…. pictures of Nicole being groped in a giant hot tub filled with guys were appearing in scandal rags…. Nicole knew O. J. was a psycho…I wish she had been more discreet for her own sake]…..

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      9. He was the greatest Trojan ever, the greatest running back besides Jim Brown, he was beloved by all of America black, white and brown and the rest of the world and he let the world down.

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      10. Exactly, MG. You play with fire and you may get burned. Don’t sell yourself off like a street walker.

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      12. S. I. D. nearly always miscalculates the amount of blood drawn from a defendant. Focusing on S. I. D. screw ups blurred the focus of every trial I ever did involving the introduction of blood evidence [by the way, in order to introduce a blood sample you need a vial which contains taped signatures of the person drawing the blood, the person storing the blood, the person retrieving the blood, the person transporting the blood to court, etc. etc….. in modern elections we send out mail-in ballots to every home in the state and count the returned ballots without any proof of chain of custody….. it’s total bullshit & the dems know it]……

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      13. OJ’s blood/DNA was found at the murder scene. He had a fresh cut on his finger that he could not explain to police. The killer wore size 12 Bruno Magli shoes. OJ owned size 12 BM shoes. OJ’s and Nicole’s blood was found in the white Bronco. A neighbor saw the white Bronco park in front of Nicole’s house shortly before the murder. How much evidence do you need. This was juror nullification in the criminal trial. The civil jury found him liable for punitive damages based on the same evidence under a “clear and convincing” evidence standard. The vote was 12 to 0.

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      14. I’m sure glad Fred won that lawsuit (i.e. end around double jeopardy). He must be loving “all that money”. Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!

        That’s all a civil trial is…a money grab. Means squat in terms of a crime.

        Fred Goldman was just looking for more time in the spotlight.

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      16. When people point to a civil trial as some sort of evidence that OJ committed a crime, you’re darn tootin’! I will make fun of it and him because that’s all it was…a way of trying to get back at him for what they think he got away with it.

        Innocent people get screwed all the time by our criminal justice system, yet many (esp the ones who cry about OJ) ignore it.

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    2. So Cal, were you on the jury or maybe distant relative? I cannot believe the amount of excuses you’ve made on OJ’s behalf. Played the race card, although OJ was one of the most beloved figures prior to the murders, victim blaming, dragging relatives of both victims thru the mud, and then the final grasp…bringing up other murder cases.

      I’m seriously shocked that you may believe or do believe that OJ did not actually commit those crimes.

      #DefendOn

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  3. Should SC say something like “We mourn the passing of OJ” when in fact he gave the school a black eye for the past 30-years

    Who knows what the Afterlife is like except for those who have already departed, but one possible scenario is that his wife and Goldman greet Simpson with, “Hi OJ, we’ve been waiting for you”

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      1. That is a repulsive thought So Cal. He repeatedly beat her and ultimately murdered her. She should not have to deal with him in the afterlife. 

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      2. You believe he murdered her. That doesn’t mean he did.

        “Our sins are washed away and we are made clean because Christ gave His own body as a gift to God. He did this once for all time.” – Hebrews 10:10-12

        Our imperfections, be they physical or mental, are gone when we leave this earth. Many believe heaven is whatever we envision and different for each person. We are no one to say what Nicole’s vision of heaven should be. Maybe without his jealousy & anger, that is her version of heaven.

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    1. Bingo! And L. A. is not the right place to prosecute a celebrity [whether it’s John Landis or Jim Brown or Edwin Moses or O.J.]….

      #L.A.JuriesAreNotoriouslyStarStruck

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    1. John — even though I disagreed with some of the tactical decisions the prosecution made [especially not introducing the fake beard and $10,000 in cash O. J. had on him when he was headed to Mexico — thereby losing their “flight is evidence of Guilt” instruction], I was entirely impressed with the job the prosecutors did on that case….especially Darden. I tend to think no prosecution team could have gotten a guilty from an L. A. jury.

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  6. OJ was a great football player and track athlete.

    His accomplishments at SC and in the NFL were 2nd to none.

    His personal life was fine until accused of murder,and he was found ‘NOT’ guilty.

    God only knows the heart,so best not judge him beyond what one can observe ,for oneself will God judge with that standard.

    The crime is punishable by death. On the evidence produced I could not have found him guilty,knowing he would be put to death on my vote.

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      2. You call them “pugnacious” or “extremists” or other derogatory names but then lie about it. But I suppose if you have no God other than the one you create to match your desires, lying doesn’t really matter. 

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  8. No excuse for the final acts committed by OJ Simpson in the modern remake of Theodore Dreisler’s ‘An American Tragedy’ but Nicole and her mother, sisters and assorted hanger on’s were all in on treating OJ with complete and constant contempt. MG outlines the baiting Nicole engaged in knowing the reaction she’d get. She was not, by any credible measurement a, ‘beautiful’ woman…she was as her mother and sisters, a white trash herd of sows. The family hailed from Germany…again nothing justifies how this entire nightmare ended with the multiple homicides and now his passing but this was a slowly ticking depth charge that, although no one sensed it would end as it did many ‘knew’ it was a cauldron of chaos that had a gifted and doomed egomaniac psychopath entangled with a ‘coven’ of true female dawgs.

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      3. So you now realize the existence of a God but that God doesn’t really care about what we do or say or how we treat others. We all go to the same place in the end. How convenient. Sounds like a great model for society. Maybe we should teach that to our children and see what happens. Oops we already have and the result is chaos. 

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  9. The criminal trial was like an airplane crash, as in: planes don’t crash because one thing goes wrong. They crash because multiple things go wrong at the same time.

    Just for starters, it began when Marcia Clark decided that the “sisterhood” was stronger than tribal solidarity, so she went along with a bunch of black women being seated on the jury.

    Second, Bill Hodgman had to drop out of the trial because of health issues. He was a stronger prosecutor than either Clark or Dearden.

    Clark did not move to exclude the tape of Fuhrman. Regardless of whether you think Fuhrman is a bigot or not, the tape was irrelevant to whether the defendant had killed two people, and it should have been disallowed.

    Ito also screwed up by allowing cameras in the courtroom. The trial became a circus because Ito and too many of the participants were giddy at being on TV.

    Vince Bugliosi took a much weaker case against Charlie Manson and his “family” and got convictions. Gil Garcetti was handed a case that even Johnny Cochrane* (prior to his being hired by O.J.) thought was an open and shut case, and that the best Simpson could probably do would be to accept a plea deal, claiming diminished capacity in exchange for 15 years or so.

    *It might have been Bob Shapiro, I don’t remember. What I do recall clearly is that the verdict was read on Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement, and Shapiro could not get in front of the TV cameras fast enough to say “we played the race card, and we dealt it from the bottom of the deck.”

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    2. Clark decided to try the case in the media from day one. Back then no DA did that,it was unethical,and it was all downhill from there. God does care about all these differing machinations and regardless…all things work for the good for those called according to his purpose, just ask Joseph and his brothers in the book of Genesis.

      WE don’t see it unless we have the spiritual eyes to see and ears to hear.

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