Up for auction "Buffalo Bills" O.J. Simpson Hand Signed 5X7 Color Photo. The Consignor purchased this item as an original signature, our buyers have determined that this is a clubhouse signature done by the organization to meet the demand of fans for autographs. O.J. was known to be late or a NO SHOW for many of his signing events, though these items are now hard to find, they were distributed to fans mostly during events that were cancelled. The price Hand Been adjusted to reflect this! ES-929A Orenthal James Simpson (July 9, 1947 –
April 10, 2024) was an American football player and actor who played in the National Football League (NFL)
for 11 seasons, primarily with the Buffalo Bills. Regarded as one of the greatest running backs of all time, his professional success was
overshadowed by his trial and
controversial acquittal for the murders of his former
wife Nicole Brown and her
friend Ron Goldman in 1994. Simpson
played college football for
the USC Trojans, where he won
the Heisman Trophy as a
senior, and was selected first
overall by the Bills in the 1969 NFL/AFL draft. During
his nine seasons with the Bills, he received five consecutive Pro Bowl and first-team All-Pro selections from 1972 to 1976. He also led the
league in rushing yards four
times, in rushing touchdowns twice, and in points
scored in 1975. He became the first NFL player to rush for more than 2,000 yards in a season, earning him NFL Most Valuable Player (MVP),
and is the only NFL player to do so in a 14-game regular season. He holds
the record for the single-season yards-per-game average at 143.1. After
retiring with the San Francisco 49ers in
1979, he acted in film and television, became a sports broadcaster, and was a
spokesman for a wide variety of products and companies, notably Hertz. He was later
inducted into multiple football halls of fame. Brown and Goldman were murdered in Los Angeles
on the night of June 12, 1994. Simpson was charged with the murders, and
arrested after a widely televised incident in
which he tried to flee the police in his friend's car. The internationally
publicized murder trial lasted from January to October 1995, and created racial
divisions in the U.S. He was acquitted on October 3. Three years later, he was
found liable for the murders in a civil suit from the
victims' families but paid little of the $33.5 million judgment. In
2007, Simpson was arrested in
Las Vegas, Nevada, and charged with armed robbery and kidnapping. In 2008, he
was convicted, and sentenced to 33 years' imprisonment with a minimum of nine years
without parole. He served his sentence at the Lovelock Correctional
Center in rural Nevada, until being paroled and released in
2017. Simpson was granted an early discharge from parole in 2021. He died of
cancer at the age of 76 in 2024. |