Well, no. Johnny Unitas wasn’t busted. In fact, he’s no longer susceptible to arrest because “The Golden Arm” died in 2002. But if he had burst into a hotel room to get back stolen mementos, you can bet your bottom dollar that he still wouldn’t have been busted. He would have been toasted!
The more likely headline would have read, “America’s Hero Breaks Up Theft Ring,” except in the New York Post, which would have read, “Unitas Searching for Paris Hilton.” Had it been any other football player of any repute, from Peyton Manning to Walter Peyton, they would have made him a hero for being man enough to go into a hotel room full of memento thieves and taking them back. But not OJ.
What OJ did, or did not do, in the Vegas Hotel Room has yet to be seen. But just as this entire scenario would have played so vastly different if it was any other player, so to was it assured that OJ would leave that hotel room as the perp. The only question around Vegas is whether Mayor Oscar Goodman will leave office to represent OJ at trial. Odds are currently against it, 3:2.
We have written before, notably in the Paris Hilton situation, about the “message” sent when a celebrity gets sent to jail. OJ Simpson, however, is on the notorious side of celebrity, though likely the most famously notorious celebrity in America today.
What’s so wrong with OJ having his antique dealer friend set up a sting to recapture stolen mementos? Doesn’t America love self-help, especially when it means getting the bad guy and returning stolen artifacts to their rightful owner? That’s a good thing. Except when it’s OJ.
Wasn’t there a gun in the room? Well, if OJ was packing, that could change things. But it’s beginning to look like OJ never had a gun, at least according to one witness in the room who spoke out today. So whether there was an armed robbery, or any intent to rob anyone at all, appears to be highly suspect.
But this was OJ. No matter what, OJ is the bad guy. Anybody else and we’d be celebrating a Charles Bronson victory. When it’s OJ, he’s got to be bad.
Of all the things about this story, there’s one that is unfathomable. OJ is being held without bail. Is that because OJ is likely to run off to Bolivia? Almost every person in Vegas is an inherent flight risk, but of all the people in the local hoosegow, OJ is probably the only one who has no place to run. Where would OJ go?
If a crime was committed, and if OJ was the perpetrator of the crime, then it should be dealt with. The same as with anyone else. But when everything involving OJ is out of control, then it’s just plain wrong. He was acquitted in a court and convicted in the eyes of Americans. Get over it. Now treat him like a real person with real rights. Can you imagine any defendant in America who is less capable of receiving a fair trial than OJ.
The more likely headline would have read, “America’s Hero Breaks Up Theft Ring,” except in the New York Post, which would have read, “Unitas Searching for Paris Hilton.” Had it been any other football player of any repute, from Peyton Manning to Walter Peyton, they would have made him a hero for being man enough to go into a hotel room full of memento thieves and taking them back. But not OJ.
What OJ did, or did not do, in the Vegas Hotel Room has yet to be seen. But just as this entire scenario would have played so vastly different if it was any other player, so to was it assured that OJ would leave that hotel room as the perp. The only question around Vegas is whether Mayor Oscar Goodman will leave office to represent OJ at trial. Odds are currently against it, 3:2.
We have written before, notably in the Paris Hilton situation, about the “message” sent when a celebrity gets sent to jail. OJ Simpson, however, is on the notorious side of celebrity, though likely the most famously notorious celebrity in America today.
What’s so wrong with OJ having his antique dealer friend set up a sting to recapture stolen mementos? Doesn’t America love self-help, especially when it means getting the bad guy and returning stolen artifacts to their rightful owner? That’s a good thing. Except when it’s OJ.
Wasn’t there a gun in the room? Well, if OJ was packing, that could change things. But it’s beginning to look like OJ never had a gun, at least according to one witness in the room who spoke out today. So whether there was an armed robbery, or any intent to rob anyone at all, appears to be highly suspect.
But this was OJ. No matter what, OJ is the bad guy. Anybody else and we’d be celebrating a Charles Bronson victory. When it’s OJ, he’s got to be bad.
Of all the things about this story, there’s one that is unfathomable. OJ is being held without bail. Is that because OJ is likely to run off to Bolivia? Almost every person in Vegas is an inherent flight risk, but of all the people in the local hoosegow, OJ is probably the only one who has no place to run. Where would OJ go?
If a crime was committed, and if OJ was the perpetrator of the crime, then it should be dealt with. The same as with anyone else. But when everything involving OJ is out of control, then it’s just plain wrong. He was acquitted in a court and convicted in the eyes of Americans. Get over it. Now treat him like a real person with real rights. Can you imagine any defendant in America who is less capable of receiving a fair trial than OJ.
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