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For me it goes all the way back to the 1979 Rose Bowl.
I’ve seen the video of this play a few times and, yeah, Orenthal does say that, “...I’m for USC but I thought that he fumbled the ball, John”
But it’s what he said afterwards that has burned in my memory for 45 years now.
“I’m glad; we must be living right in southern California because it’s seven points no matter how you look at it now.”
Really, Orenthal?
I’ve hated the man ever since.
(Yes, nothing sends me to the depths of petty faster than Michigan football.)
As far as the “trouble” that he got into in the 1990’s...I agreed with both the criminal and civil verdicts. I did get tired of the television coverage. I’ve been interested in some but not all of the programming about Orenthal ever since.
Never a hero of mine at all.
I wish that what Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said here was not true but even nowadays (and this was even more true in the late 1960’s when Orenthal Simpson and Lew Alcindor reached celebrity status) but it is. That’s a whole other Talk.
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