What’s interesting about the game is that the WRs caught 3 passes for 22 yards. That’s it. For the entire game.
All of the Lions passes were completed to TEs David Hill and Charlie Sanders.
The Bills had the 3 receptions for 22 yards to WR Bob Chandler. The other catch for 7 yards was to a RB.
Looking at the Bills QB stat line, it’s no wonder the Bills ran the ball so many times.
The mackerel isn’t biting on this one. Not hungry.
Such an underrated player, I get he’s a murderer, but damn he could run the football… Everyone knew he was the only weapon they had on offense and it didn’t matter, he still dominated
Understandable.
He and Michael Vick should have died in prison. I have no wish to honor evil people.
Actually, this thread wasn’t intended to be about OJ Simpson at all.
The article itself is about Joe DeLamielleure, a native Detroiter who played in the game on the other side (for the Bills), and whose father who owned a bar in Warren, MI.
My observation was more about the overall lack of passing in that game. That would be unheard of today. Could you imagine a game under the current modern rules where a team completed just 4 passes for 22 yards?
The game has changed so much that it is hard to compare at times.
Imagine Dan Fouts or Marino with these offensive schemes. But you talk about Goff not being mobile…LOL. These fools would make Goff look like a sprinter.
The game used to be a fist fight between brawlers. Now it values technique and scheme. Kind of like comparing Boxing to todays MMA. Just a much more complex and integrate sport.
Well, if that is the point terrible headline, which we all understand.
Not directed at you @FreebirdPartDeux
It’s interesting that OJ is now called an “evil person.”
Yes, we learned he became “less than zero” as a human but I wonder — how did he get there?
Pre-murder, essentially everybody loved OJ.
The superstar in rent a car, movies, etc.
he had everything going for him and years of being worshipped.
He married a gorgeous woman.
None of us know why he got to where he did. To me he’s less evil than a tragedy.
Anyway, I noticed the stories of his death featured essentially zero pre-murder content. No examination of his rise to superstardom and his spectacular fall. None.
In the end, we’ve learned nothing new.
I suppose it’s as much his fault as anyone else’s
I’m not sympathetic to him, but there’s a major hole in his story.
It would have been better if he’d have been found guilty.
Back then a much larger portion of violent men went unpunished. Women feel more empowered to seek help now then in the past. He played a violent sport. It isnt surprising that he took the violence back home. He was a superstar. Everyone kissed his ass. He could do no wrong. That narrative creates monsters without considering the violent job. Look at Frank Sinatra.
OJ was a monster…
Or maybe she just had it coming… (what? too soon?)
I’ll just leave these here
He ran through them like a hot knife?
You bet on baseball or take steroids to hit a few more homeruns, disgraced, no Hall of Fame for you. You nearly decapitate your ex-wife and stab some guy to death, still in the hall of fame. You’re good. Shameful.
Very different than today.
But not too surprising back then since the Lion’s base was 22 personnel. Only 1 starting WR.
Wouldn’t it be fun if we drafted another stud TE, and started him, LaPorta, Gibbs, Monty and Saint?
Yikes
Cough Ray Lewis… Cough Marvin Harrison.
They are evil people. If you condone what they did then you are too.
That’s an excellent point and one I’ve never considered because, yes, he was an American icon before the murders and I haven’t really seen much about what happened leading up to these murders (or maybe I’ve just forgotten over time). I guess it was premeditated but what happened to him to drive this behavior? Was it a last minute decision? Had he thought about this for an extended period of time? Was it just the jealousy? Was it a sense if entitlement? Was he born an evil person and hid it?
Jealousy can be a horrible, debilitating state of being. Was he an intrinsically evil human being or was he evil for that moment in time? Does it make a difference? Probably not but it is very interesting how he went from one side of the spectrum to the other (socially, popularity, respect) in a snap. Cant think of too many individuals in the past century who have followed this path, can you?
The story you lay out is the cliche story
I doubt he was a monster all his life. 
And obviously nobody has a slit throat coming.
She got tired of being beat up so she divorced him
He may have been suffocating her life
Which suggests something more rooted in insecurity
But whatever.
The guy graduated from beatings to murder 
In my view, so much of the shit in this world is rooted in insecurity. Not more complex than that.
Everyone has insecurities— to varying degree and with varied responses.
But behind all crazy acts, I think, the far majority have deep rooted insecurities behind them.
Just my belief having tried to analyze shit over the years