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Trojan DePo: No Way, O.J.

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September 20, 2007

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Get your hands and feet inside the vehicle. You’ve entered the Trojan DePo. And today the DePo’s got a bone to pick.

If you’re neither blind nor deaf and you have a pulse, you’ve probably noticed that OJ Simpson’s face has been splattered across every newspaper and broadcast on every internet and TV news station. This of course is due to Simpson’s latest arrest and subsequent $125,000 bail, stemming from an incident last Thursday in a Las Vegas hotel room.

It has been reported that Simpson, 60, and three other men burst into a collector’s room at the Palace Station Hotel & Casino, taking thousands of dollars of sports memorabilia; collectibles that Simpson had claimed rightfully belonged to him. Now Simpson and the three not-so-wise men have been charged with 10 felony counts, including kidnapping and robbery with a deadly weapon.

I’m not going to argue that Simpson deserves to go to jail. It’s my opinion that Simpson has had his face covered in guilty pie for over a decade. Hands down, the glove fits. No, I’m pissed because of headlines like this: “At USC, O.J. still a hero,” written by Paul Oberjuerge of the Pasadena Star News.

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Paul claims that because Simpson memorabilia hangs prominently in Heritage Hall, that USC still considers O.J. a hero. Apparently Paul thinks he has a finger on the Trojan pulse, in all things regarding O.J.

I don’t believe it. I believe that USC is praising the uniform, it’s praising the remarkable football accomplishment, it’s praising the Heisman. It is not, however, praising the man.

But I want to know what you think.

Drop a Post below Trojans. Let’s hear the people speak.

5 responses to “Trojan DePo: No Way, O.J.”

denis

September 20, 2007 at 10:32 pm

OJ was a great back and did what he did at USC. Becase he is an F up you can’t take away the fact he was illustrious in college AND the NFL. IS his gear still in the hall of fame? Is this neophyte of a journalist criticizing the NFL for that?

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Tom Cooper USC ’90

September 21, 2007 at 11:24 am

OJ was a remarkable football player. He is part of the Trojans history. Do we try to erase that? I think not. History is what it is. We should recognize him for what he did during that period. We should not erase him from our memory.

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Irving Howell, IV – USC Business ’92

September 22, 2007 at 4:42 pm

DETROJAN OJ!!

Look, it’s simple; he killed someone. In an amazing moment of cupidity, he has admitted as much. Now, I’d personally think that most folks would have had the good taste to avoid publishing a book like his.

There is nothing strong that you can do about the association. After all, history is history. However, the university can and should keep clear of the fellow. In fact, he should be definitely made persona non grata on campus.

Obviously, it’s too late to teach OJ any moral lessons. That he failed to learn “character” during his time at USC is a shame. But it certainly doesn’t send a very useful message to the current students and players, if the university tolerates a continued association with him.

The latest is all a bit ridiculous, I’ll grant you. But use it to cut the cord, once and for all. De-Trojan the man!

DETROJAN OJ!!

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rojenn

September 26, 2007 at 4:00 pm

Hey,it is really simple, openions are like assholes. Everybody has one. OJ is to me still a hero. Everyone make mistakes. I’ll admit, this time OJ belongs in jail. The thing I am pissed about is most everybody is wining over the fact that he was found inocent of the crime that involved his former wife and Ron Goldman. That chapter is over! Get over it people! Besides none of you were there when the crime was committed. How do you know unless you had concrete evidence, which there was none!

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DeTrojan

September 26, 2007 at 9:41 pm

Legally speaking he was not found innocent. It’s not guilty or innocent. It’s guilty or “not guilty.” Which means, yeah he could have killed them, in fact he probably did. He lied about the wearing the shoes. He had blood (and DNA) in his car — but juries were very unfamiliar and suspiscious with DNA back then. And the ass-hole racist cops didn’t help with a conviction.

So they found a reasonable doubt. Even if there were plenty of reasonable evidence he did do it, there was a reasonable doubt. And he was found not guilty of criminal wrong-doing.

Then he was found guilty of murdering them (or at least being responsible for their deaths) in civil court remember.

Also…he’s an asshole. Imagine his kids here, and he’s writing an “if I killed your mother…this is how I would have done it” manual. He’s a sick weirdo. Who was a great running-back.

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