There was a time when O.J. Simpson was the talk of the town. Indeed, following his acquittal for murder O.J. had a celebration at Morton’s Steak House in New York and partied on down. His home in recent years however has been a Nevada prison and yesterday he took a stab (no pun intended O.J), at having his kidnapping conviction overturned. Alas, it seems prison commissary food has gotten the better of him.
Bloated and weighing some 270 pounds, the former football star’s prison term has made him balloon. Far from being the former healthy sportsman he once was, O.J looks more like a blimp that hovers over a sports stadium. Well at least there is still some connection to sport.
According to friends O.J is now eating junk food in jail and no longer spends much time in the gym. The former Heisman Trophy winner was sentenced to nine to 33 years behind bars but is hoping to convince a judge that his former attorney, Yale Galanter put up an ineffective defense against charges that he engineered an armed confrontation in 2007 at a Vegas hotel room where sports memorabilia collectors had his belongings.
Having infamously beaten the criminal charges of killing his wife, Nicole, and her friend Ron Goldman in 1994, O.J was found to be civilly liable for the killings in 1997. Then came his Nevada hotel heist.
From ” Heisman trophy to Heist” might be a good title for his memoir or maybe “How the gloves might not fit but now the boots on the other foot.” or what about: “You can get away with murder in LA but in Nevada things catch up with you!”
Either way there seems to be just a touch of poetic justice in this story. There is certainly a lot of juice here but still little consolation for the Goldman and Brown families. Let us never forget the real victims here and every time O.J makes a plea for himself it is surely most upsetting for the people who have really suffered.
