Simpson

O. J. Simpson

O.J. Simpson, born in San Francisco on July 9, 1947, got the nickname of "Mr. juice" because of his short name OJ. He was a former American rugby player and was known as the best running guard in the history of professional rugby games. Later, he became a star of film and television and advertising, and served as a sports commentator.

In 1973, Simpson set a record and became the first person to sprint more than 2000 yards with the ball in a season. So far, six other players have broken the record of 2000 yards, but Simpson is still the only professional rugby player to sprint more than 2000 yards with the ball in 14 game seasons (in 1978, 16 professional games in one season). He kept a record of 143.1 yards per game in a single season. After his retirement at the end of 1979, Simpson became a TV sports commentator and actor. In 1985, Simpson was elected to the American Football Hall of fame.

In 1995, Simpson was charged with two murders in 1994. The victims were his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and his good friend Ronald Goldman. After a long public criminal trial, Simpson was acquitted because of loopholes in the evidence. Later, brown (Simpson's ex-wife) and Gorman's family filed a civil lawsuit demanding Simpson to pay civil damages. On February 5, 1997, the jury unanimously held that there was sufficient evidence to prove that Simpson should pay civil compensation for Gorman's death in vain and Brown's beating, totaling 33.5 million US dollars. In September 2007, Simpson was arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada, and charged with a number of felonies such as armed robbery and kidnapping. In 2008, he was convicted and sentenced to 33 years in prison without bail for nine years. Simpson eventually served his sentence at the Lovelock Correctional Center in Lovelock, Nevada.

On October 1, 2017, O.J. Simpson was released on parole after nine years in prison.

Childhood life

O.J. Simpson grew up in San Francisco and lives in a housing project near Mount portrero. As early as his teens, he joined a street gang called Persian fighters and was once reformed at the youth education center in San Francisco. At Galileo high school in San Francisco, Simpson played for the school football team Galileo lions. From 1965 to 1966, Simpson was a student at San Francisco City College and a member of the California Community College system. In high school football, Simpson served as the running guard of the offensive group and the defensive guard of the defensive group, and was elected as the running guard of the first team of the United States in junior college.

Sports career

College football

Simpson received a sports scholarship from the University of Southern California. In 1967 and 1968, he worked as a running guard on the school team. In 1967, Simpson advanced 1451 yards with the ball and reached the array 11 times, setting a domestic record. He set a record again the next year, 355 runs, 1709 yards. in 1967, he was the main player in the 1967 rugby match between USC and UCLA. As a junior student, he was also a candidate for the Heisman trophy, but he did not win the award. However, in the fourth quarter of the game, he scored a 64 yard touchdown, drew the game, and took advantage of the additional points after touchdown to win the game. The game was hailed as one of the greatest in the 20th century. Another dramatic touchdown in the same competition is Arnold friberg's oil painting "O.J. Simpson breaks for daylight". Simpson won the Walter camp award in 1967. In June 1967, he took part in the University of Southern California's four man sprint relay race, breaking the world record for the 4x110 yard relay at the NCAA track and Field Championships in Provo, Utah. (although the record has not been broken, the IAAF still thinks it is the best in the world, not a world record. After the rules were changed in 1976, there were very few English distance units In 1968, he ran 1709 yards and reached 22 times, winning the hesman cup, the Maxwell award, and the Walter camp award of that year. He also set the biggest difference in the Heisman cup, beating the runner up with 1750 points. In the Rose Bowl in 1969, the University of Southern California (USC), which ranked second, encountered Ohio State University, which ranked first. In the 16-27 loss, Simpson sprinted 171 yards, including an 80 yard run.

American Football

Buffalo Bills

In the 1968 season, Buffalo Bill of the American Football League (AFL) won the number one draft in the 1969 draft with a record of 1-12-1 draw. Simpson was selected by Buffalo Bill in the first place and set foot on the professional football field. Early in his professional football career, Simpson didn't receive much attention in Buffalo Bill, and his performance was mediocre. In the first three years, he only sprinted 622 yards with the ball every season on average. In 1972, Simpson ran more than 1000 yards for the first time, reaching 1251 yards. In 1973, Simpson set a record of 2003 yards, became the first player to exceed 2000 yards and scored 12 touchdowns. For the next three seasons, Simpson's sprint with the ball exceeded 1000 yards in each season. From 1972 to 1976, Simpson averaged 1 540 yards per season (14 games), 5.1 yards per sprint, and he led the national rugby league for four times. On November 25, 1976, during Thanksgiving, Simpson had the best game of his career against the Detroit Lions. At that time, he set the record of 273 yards and two touchdowns in 29 sprint. Simpson's 1977 season with buffalo bills was interrupted by an injury.

San Francisco 49ers

Before the 1978 season, Buffalo Bill traded Simpson to four or nine men in San Francisco for several draft rights. He played for two seasons with the San Francisco 49ers. He announced his retirement at the end of 1979.

summary

when Simpson retired, he had a total of 11236 yards with the ball, ranking second in the national football league's running and defending charts at that time, and now 18th. In 1973, Simpson won the national rugby league player of the year and was named in the star bowl six times. Simpson is still the only rugby player to sprint more than 2000 yards in a 14 game season and the only one to sprint more than 200 yards in six different games of his career. Simpson was elected to the rugby Hall of fame in 1985 when he first became a candidate. Simpson got the nickname "Mr. juice" for his short name "O.J." because O.J. is an informal abbreviation for "orange juice". "Justice" is also a colloquial synonym for electricity and electricity, so it is a metaphor for any powerful entity. At the peak of Simpson, the attack group of Buffalo Bill team was called "power company".

Acting career

After his retirement from the National Football League (NFL), Simpson has successfully appeared in a series of films, such as the mini series Roots (1977), the action film Ku Klux Klan (1974), the skyscraper burning (1974), Cassandra bridge (1976), Capricorn one (1978), and the comedy back to the beach (198) And the trilogy of the detective with white heads (1988, 1991, 1994). In 1979, he set up his own film production company, orenthal. It mainly focuses on providing TV films and films for TV screening, such as the family oriented film "Gaudi and Boxer" Melissa mikelson (1979, 1981), and "cocaine and blue eyes" (1983), the NBC pilot detective series. NBC was considering whether to broadcast frogman, another series starring Simpson, when Simpson was arrested and the program was canceled. In addition to his acting career, Simpson also served as a commentator for Monday Rugby night and NBC national rugby league. He was also a spectator for the second season of live Saturday night and hosted an episode in the third season.

Endorsement activities

Simpson's amiable and natural charm made him get many endorsements. He is a spokesman for Hertz car rental company. In the advertisement, he runs across the airport, as if to suggest that he will return to olive

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