Posted on 06/11/2016 3:55:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
On Saturday night, ABC will premiere the first episode of their five-part docuseries, O.J.: Made in America. All indications are that we’re going to learn a lot about O.J. Simpson from the 7.5-hour series, which is getting rave reviews right now. And during Game 4 of the NBA Finals, we got a sneak preview of what might be to come when Jeff Van Gundy randomly told a pretty amazing O.J. story.
According to Van Gundy, O.J.’s infamous low-speed police chase, which took place during Game 5 of the 1994 NBA Finals between the Knicks and Rockets, was so slow because O.J. wanted to hear the end of the game. Van Gundy, who was an assistant coach for the Knicks that year, says then-Knicks head coach Pat Riley ran into Al Cowlings at a car wash during the summer of 1994, and Cowlings, who drove O.J.’s Ford Bronco during the police chase, told him why he didn’t drive faster.
Here’s the story:
A.C. Cowling knew Pat Riley personally. He waved him over and proceeded to tell him the story of, why they were driving so slow was O.J. wanted to hear the end of the game on the radio before he pulled in. And when Coach Riley told us that story, I was, like, mesmerized by what really goes on. I could just see him having the gun to his head saying, ‘Turn up the radio, A.C.’ Wow. That’s…wow.
Makes as much sense as anything else about the whole OJ Simpson story.
Certainly makes as much sense as Kato Kaelin living in OJ’s guest house and being sent out too grab a snack at McDonalds for OJ.
You are right. It is unbelievable.
... and everyone knows that A. C. Cowlings never lies.
hillary! slinks off to jail amidst the oj re-re-re-re-run
That series was one of the few that i watched with my dad when I was a wee kid. Riley turned the Knicks back then into Bad Boys 2 after the Pistons. Nowadays you look at someone funny and you get a flagrant foul. The NBA today wussified with that GSW small ball nonsense.
Must be nice to have a recognizable name . . . you get a little low on cash so you have your agent work a TV documentary deal. I’m still waiting for someone to explain to me how crime doesn’t pay . . .
According to Wikipedia OJ slimeball could get out next year.
Is that why they're trying to rehabilitate his image now? Or is it the opposite - Hillary's using OJ to wag the dog away from her scandals? So much treachery, so little time.
Ah, feels like the 90's all over again, don't it?
The slow speed chase news gatherers passed over our house when they had to bypass the LAX approach path.
By that time, near the end of the chase, I counted 13 helicopters and one fixed wing aircraft following the Bronco.
I never knew there were that many news helicopters in the LA Basin...:^)
AC cowlings was washing his identical bronco in his drive way the night of the murders he was in on it
Oh, my! Seven and a half hours of pure OJ. I was so angry over the way Judge Ito handled the case I not only stopped watching, I threw away my TV. I haven’t owned one since. As lousy and racist (antiwhite, anticop) as the juror’s were I felt pity for them. There is no way I could have watched that farce close up and personal. A year of their lives spent in courtroom Hell.
Actually, OJ was going to McDonalds and mentioned it to Kato, who then asked if he could come along. They went together, bought the food, then brought the food home to eat . . . OJ in his house and Kato in his apartment behind the house.
Mrs. JohnnyP and I were trapped in slow traffic on the transition from the 57 to the 22.
We were listening to KFI and saw the White Bronco below us, as it made its way North on the 5.
I believe that no one gets away with something like what O.J. did.
Somewhere, sometime, there is a judgement.
Perhaps we eventually judge ourselves, remorse is a horrific thing...and we can judge ourselves more harshly than any one else can.
I cant recall but were they still trying to make the orange crush better you know all that crazy construction or was it done already?
It was a long drawn out sentence for those jurors :-/
In the end I was glad he was acquitted... I’m certain he was guilty but I felt that no matter how many times they would hold a new trial they would all just hang.
Better that it just be done with.
He will eventually pay the price anyway... IMO.
I don’t remember any orange signs at the time, transitioning to the WB 22.
Hmm....I recall when he got to his destination (his house?) that he sat in the vehicle for over an hour. He was believed to have had a gun, and might be suicidal. Reporters were making comparisons to Othello.
I am fairly sure it was after 11 p.m. Central Time - I got tired of waiting whether he would get out of the vehicle or not and went to bed.
Surely the game wasn’t still going on?
The dreaded Orange Crush Interchange
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