To re-enact this accurately, one of them should be a woman

wait, football players get a pension on top of their obscene salaries?

Football players don't have obscene salaries. The average career is something like 3-4 years, and the rookie minimum is something like $450,000. That puts the average player at something like $2 million for his playing career. That's pretty darn good, but it's nothing like what the baseball players and basketball players make.

When you consider that a lot of the retired players made much closer to average salaries for white collar workers and had their health seriously compromised by the game, it's pretty easy to see why the league implemented the pension system. If they hadn't, a lot more of their former players would have ended up living on the street. As it is, there have been examples of that.

Not that most of what you said is incorrect, but the good old signing bonus generally bumps that average career salary up quite a bit for everyone but the most marginal players in the league.

I think they should turn it into a gameshow. OJ could pick from a group of dancers dressed as Nicole Simpson, and each one would have different questions that he'd have to answer about the murder, and if he gets them all right he wins his Heisman back. He'd also have lifelines where in case he forgot something he could phone Marcia Clark, Kato Kaelin, or Judge Ito, or he could chose to poll the jury.

They should do the reenactment with dolls like they did with the Karen Carpenter story.

Evidently a number of affiliates are refusing to air this. I'm glad my Toledo affiliate is one of them.

http://apnews.excite.com/article/200...D8LGHTF80.html

In this case, I'm very happy to turn out being (what looks like) dead wrong. I've read enough of the insider "exposes" into the dealings of ratings and business, and it sounded like those folks would sell their children for sweeps week. If it's true that there are outlets that passed or flat won't air it, I'm thrilled. I've also lost quite a bit of respect for FOX, but that's a different thread/arguement all together.

Or South Park style.

Innocent! I Tell You .... Innocent!!!

Fox News is reporting that Fox has canceled both the book and Tv Interview.

I wonder if he still gets paid?

I hear OJ just got a deal to a do a book entitled 'If I Didnt Do It'. Now thats more like it!

I heard he has already received 3.5M, I'm sure he'll do all he can to keep it.

Well, they can't take back the money, the book's been written, the interview has been done, so there's not much they could do to take it back. Especially since the money was filtered through a third party so it wasn't subject to the Goldman settlement.

If you're going to have the balls to interview him, and advertise airing it, the least you can do is not chicken out.

NEW YORK - After a firestorm of criticism, News. Corp. said Monday that it has canceled the O.J. Simpson book and TV special "If I Did It."

"I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project," said Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. chairman. "We are sorry for any pain that this has caused the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson."

A dozen Fox affiliates had already said they would not air the two-part sweeps month special, planned for next week before the Nov. 30 publication of the book by ReganBooks. The publishing house is a HarperCollins imprint owned — like the Fox network — by News Corp.

Murdoch squashed the whole thing with one little swing of his flyswatter. I wonder how many little people got fired.

Awesome! Glad to see that someone finally came to their sense.

Even if OJ got the 3.5 Mil, wasnt Goldman's family supposed to get it?

He hasn't paid a dime to them yet, so I don't know why it would be different this time.

So, how long before bootlegs of this interview show up on You Tube?

So much for the talk radio stance that Fox News has nothing to do with this whole thing and they're supposedly totally separate enterprises. I guess that only goes for when FNC doesn't get scoops on all NewsCorp reports.

Thats a shame because I would have watched it with bells on.

It's his confession. I want to know how it happened. It's the final bookend we never thought we'd get.

Cornflakeguy: I'm glad you said that, I felt bad that I thought I was the only person in the world that WANTED to see this.

I don't condone OJ making a profit off any of this, but you're right, I would like to get some closure on this circus.

Everyone knows he did it, and even though this is "hypothetical" we all know that this would be a videotaped confession.

It would be like Lee Harvey Oswald giving an interview about how he "would" have shot JFK, or who the person on the Grassy Knoll was (if LHO wasn't gunned down himself, lol)