Call me naive, but I just had no idea how much obsession is tied to OJ Simpson. Yes there can’t be a murder (involving a Black male) that makes the news and not have a reference to OJ. Yes there isn’t a murder of wives that goes by without a comment involving him. I don’t expect better form the media.
But I would never have guessed that a video game would jump on that band wagon. Obviously I am wrong. Larry Brown Sports has found a connection and it’s in a football video game. The game is All-Pro Football 2K8, featuring several greats of the game from yesteryear. OJ Simpson is one of the players featured.
The key is the Grim Reaper figure with a knife, and the knife featured on the team screen for OJ. Isn’t that cute?
It’s official, OJ has surpassed Lizzie Borden and become the Jack the Ripper of modern America.
Moral commentary in a video game. Who knew.
Of course I’m just waiting for the Scott Peterson Poker tournament, the Son of Sam FPS, and L.A. police department action game (a la Rodney King).
It just upsets me that OJ did what hundreds if not thousands have done for decades. Used his money to win a case. If it was a White guy who killed a White or Black woman in the same manner, and got off from a high-priced defense team, you wouldn’t hear about it 10 years later. It doesn’t happen. But the OJ case never goes away.
The crime was wrong, but something is seriously disturbed in America that this one case is so prevalent in the minds of so many Americans and all forms of media.
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