Steve Lehman, the offensive lineman in the clip, passed away this week. He was an amazing and caring person who went to med school after graduation. RIP big fella
I lived those days. Jim Brown had retired a couple years before. OJ Simpson was Top College RB and Gale Sayers was Top Pro RB. Both posters were on my bedroom wall.
Nobody knifes straight through the line like O.J. did. The cut-backs, the speed in which he can slice-up defenses is unmatched to this very day. I once took a stab at it in highschool, but I quickly realized I wasnt cut out for it. And now here I am, choppin' it up with you fellas. Go Broncos!
I am a contemporary of OJ. I remember him at San Francisco City College when he was setting records there. However, it is one of those things, you had to be there. In 1967 USC and UCLA were loaded with talent (remember John Wooden and Lou Alcindor?) in a number of sports. I played tennis at Fresno State and we won the College Division national championship but USC, who was no. 1 at the University Division, had Stan Smith and Bob Lutz, who were ranked in the top 10 in the world! It was a golden era in the Golden State.
Played against OJ in 1965 and 1966, Junior college. I thought his best game was the JC national championship, CCSF vs. Long Beach CC, 1966. Earl McCullouch knocked out OJ on quick toss sweep, met him full speed just as OJ was set to turn up field. Earl was a world class hurdler with exceptional speed. OJ left on a stretcher. CCSF was behind 35- 0 at the half. Second half OJ is not only playing running back, but returning punts and kickoffs. He seemed possessed. Scored 5 TDs. Long Beach never scored again and CCSF won the game. Unreal.
When I was a kid OJ was my hero. Many years later when I watched the white ford bronco car chase , I was in shock like so many others . Sad ending man .
Same here. I was a running back in high school and always wanted to have #32 because of OJ. I got it (although had very little playing time). And then '94 came and he lost me. Yep sad ending.
I felt the same way growing up and it appears that universal idolatry fed a vindictive, narcissistic personality. Truly a sad evolution of an individual who could have been a role model to youth.
Ever notice that ucla seems to have less black players than USC ...I know usc first all American WA black and had hall of fame Willie wood at qb in 1959..Vince Evans Rodney Peete Jimmy Jones Caleb Williams now ... ( apologies if I missed zny) ....ucla is a fine school .but it's not SC..look..my father went to both ..said his education was more pwrsonal ( physics) the level of how sc folks helped him when he entered the job market opposed to no help at ucla was what really set the two apart ...fight on. RIP a Jackson Clas of 63
Actually, 4 x 100 yard relay. One hundred yards was the length that colleges in the US used .. until the decade of the Seventies, I think. 110 yards is very close to 100 meters (109.73 yards) So that's how a college team could set a world record in a sprint event. Its similar to a world record in the Mile. Simpson was fast at 9.4, but the reigning Olympic champion, Bob Hayes, did a 9.1. which corresponds exactly to a 1O flat 100 meters
@@brianstark2219: NCAA outdoor champions had the 4x110 yard relay (a quarter mile is 440 yards) until 1975, and the metric 4x100 meters relay beginning in 1976.
The 440 relay, of course. My memory is failing. Still, only Americans high schools and colleges did the 440 at the time. So, in a sense, it wasnt a true "world" record, as the American Olympic team would have done the 440 slightly faster. OJ's 9.4 100y plots to 10.3 100m. He might have made the team as an alternate, but would NOT have been in the Final
I watched this game with my father on our black and white TV...I was seven-years-old...remember it as if it were yesterday...time waits for no one....🕛
Michael Dooley Me too, I remember my Mom saying that this guy is going to make headlines some day because of his tempermant! It was like 'how did she know this' but it happened! She was very young and was interviewed by some detectives because she had slept with OJ! She showed them where she thought this in her diary! I was 10 yrs old and she was 22! OJ had been to our Malibu home very many times and I was comfortable with him! The day he brought in a revolver and gloves in a bag I remember like yesterday! When I showed the Lt. he told me to never speak of them and threw them in a well in our backyard! Last time I saw OJ is the day he was acquitted! He came over and slept with my Mom and th said it was time to go! He didn't want anymore trouble for us!
I attended Chabot College in Hayward, California, in 1966. My father told me about a talented football player from San Francisco City College named O.J. Simpson, who was going to play against us that year. We went to the night game. SFCC got the ball at kickoff and returned it to about its' own 30 yard line. On the first play from scrimmage, O.J. was handed the football and went into the line where there was a big pile up to stop him. About three seconds later, O.J. emerged from the other end of the pile and ran the ball for a touchdown. That first play made me a believer. Too bad O.J. didn't keep running in the same direction.
OJ made cuts that no other player has ever made. It was amazing to watch him slash and knife right through the heart of the defense. No one will ever attack the way OJ did. He's simply a cut above.
I was able to attend this game. Second college football game I attended. Earlier that year I was able to attend a Rose Bowl game, because my grandfather has two tickets, one of the few times Purdue played in the Rose Bowl. For this game we had end zone seats and OJ Simpson ran at us on a 63 yard touchdown.
I remember this game well, it has been almost 52 years now and this game was for the PAC 8 Championship, the Rose Bowl, the National Championship, and the Heisman Trophy. It was a great game with the lead going back amd forth until Simpson broke this td run off a few minutes into the fourth quarter. The real key play in the game was the blocked extra point attempt on UCLA's third touchdown which allowed for the one point victory. USC won the Pac 8 and went to the Rose Bowl where they defeated Indiana 14 - 3 to claim the National Championship. Gary Beban who quarterbacked UCLA won the Heisman Trophy over O.J. Simpson. This was one of the best football games I ever saw!
I was at Shea on 12/16/73 when not only did OJ break Jim Brown’s rushing record, he became the first player to reach 2000 yards in a season( it was only 14 games then). It was a brutally cold, snow and ice game that the Bills won 34-7 over the Jets. I was standing on the third base dugout when the Electric Co carried OJ off of the field. It was also Weeb’s last game as Head Coach but nobody remembers that part of it.
I remember that game and run as an 11 year old in ROC. I didn’t even know Buffalo had a pro team until I read they were planning on drafting him. Been a Bills fanatic since he arrived. Chris Schenkle & Bud Wilkinson on the call.
Love him or hate him he was the greatest Running Back - college or pro - other than Barry Sanders, to ever run with the pigskin. The juice was plain excitement running with the ball 🏈. I loved watching this guy run. A football fan from the beautiful, tranquil Islands of The Bahamas 🏝️🌅🏖️🇧🇸
I'm a Notre Dame fan...but have nothing but huge respect for U.S.C. My favorite game of the year.Troy vs. Irish. The best games seem to be played at Coliseum.
I was at this game in the Trojan student section. I wish this video had decent sound. That crummy music kills off a ton of great commentary. The Juice was the greatest college RB ever!
The UCLA/USC cross town rivalry is still intense, but during that era it was off the charts. Those teams epitomized what it meant to be a Californian. Years later Reggie Bush at USC made a very similar amazing run against upstart Fresno State in a regional battle with tons of scoring. USC almost lost that game.
Says a lot about Los Angeles and football. The Coliseum could not have been more packed for this game, and yet 10 months earlier it had only 61,000 for the first Super Bowl. The Rams came in '46, left in '95, and returned in '16. The Raiders came in '82 and left in '95. The Chargers came in '60, left in '61, and returned in '16. But if USC and UCLA ever meet up again both in the top-5 you could fill the Coliseum and the Rose Bowl if they played one half in each stadium.
Greatest ever bar none everyone new he was getting the ball and they still couldn't stop him. No passing game whatsoever to speak of sprinter speed power and elusiveness not a more graceful back. It sad what has happened to him later I think probably has to do to cte. He took a lot of blows to the head playing of astro turf in buffalo and all the other turf fields back then you would see how is head would bounce off the field if they study his brain after he dies I'm sure he has that. My favorite athletes as a kid was juice, the pearl , the doctor and Ali man this post brought back great memories thanks
I think CTE and a major ego played into his relationship with Nicole Brown. I feel bad for him. Nobody knew how football effected the brain. He had no control over that. If the NCAA or NFL knew they should be held responsible for the many lives ruined.
@@teukel1157 *Damn shame, that punk doesn't live in socal for the coming hurricane. Well, at least the rest of those califucknians will get a nice soaking*
@@teukel1157 You know, it's possible to appreciate the athletic skills of the 20 year old O.J. Simpson and still be appalled at the actions of the 40 year old O.J. Simpson. What living in California has to do with any of it is beyond me.
The USC teams of the late 60s were what helped coach Bear Bryant realize that he needed to start recruiting black players at Alabama if he wanted to keep winning in the 70s. And the rest is history.
Yes.The game between USC and Bama in 1970 showed exactly that.USC had a all black backfield including Sam Bam Cunningham, Randall's big brother wore out the Bama defense.Too much speed.
In 1970, Southern Cal upset Alabama in Birmingham, 42-21, tied Nebraska (who finished 11-0--1 and No. 1), and upset Notre Dame (who finished 10-1 and No. 2). Against everyone else, Southern Cal was a mere 4-4, and got blown out 45-20 by UCLA (which was only 6-5 itself, although they nearly upset then-No. 1 Texas).
@@johnmanier7968 I didn't say USC won the championship that year but what they did in Alabama with the team they had helped change the course of college football history. They may not have been the most talented team but they overachieved in beating the teams they did in that era considering the fact that most people back then didn't think highly of blacks doing much to help you win. Bear Bryant certainly saw the light after his game with them.
Bear saw the light back in Kentucky which is why he left there and Texas A&M. At Alabama, he was intimidated by George Wallace because he swim and the Bear couldn’t if you know what I mean. But that game helped and basketball star Wendell Hudson integrating the athletic dorm at Alabama really did it. Finally, the Bear used those and threats of him leaving for the Dolphins got the job done.
Actually Bear Bryant was close friends with Duffy Daughtery at Michigan State, and Duffys' two national titles in the mid 60's began opening Bears' eyes to the need to integrate.
@@TheJpep2424weird how most white people obsess over those few killings, when they’ve killed millions on this continent, and millions more around the world.. and the killing continues in so many ways 😂 … and if they weren’t killing them, they were enslaving them, stealing their land and resources..then destroying the land afterwards. Certainly the most destructive sub-species of man.
@@bernardinoolguin8566 shut the hell up. O J was a great running back. That can never be taken away from him, regardless of what you feel and think. Your thoughts are irrelevant when it comes to truth.
O.J ruined his legacy, goes without saying, but his combination of speed power, and elusiveness is unmatched. In a bills team that couldn't throw the ball to save their lives he was the offense. The D didn't have to guess where the ball was going, much like Barry but even more so. He was it in an era when running the ball was the thing.
Until 1994 he was an American hero. I am 53 and never saw OJ play during his prime but my dad did. They even did a subplot of a Mork and Monday episode about the “Church of the Juice.”
RC. What people seem to forget is that UCLA missed the extra point when they scored the touchdown in the fourth quarter to take the lead this game could have had a different outcome because USC would have had to go for 2 to win 4:44 44
This game was nationally telecast by ABC and was also significant for one technical milestone: the first time a "portable" color-TV camera had ever been used. In the late 1960's, several electronics firms were rushing to get handheld color-TV cameras out to the networks. While the deadline was the summer of 1968 (so these cameras could be used on the floor of that year's political conventions), Ampex was first to deploy a handheld portable color video camera, in time for the USC/UCLA game in November of 1967. I believe ABC only learned two or three days before the date of the game that they'd be able to use that camera.
I was there. In the enclosed end zone. People forget that O.J. could run a 9.5 100-yard dash and was on a great 440-yard relay team. I'm a USC alum, but I felt for Gary Beban and UCLA.
I saw his speed first hand. I was working with him in 1990 on a movie, and after we wrapped him he started jogging down a long street to his trailer. I came from behind, announcing that I was coming up to make the tackle from behind, he looked over his shoulder at me and then turned on the jets. I was like I was standing still as he took off like the roadrunner. I stopped and thought "I just saw what all those free safetys saw back in the day"
I was at that game. I was outside the Colosium when some guy yelled "who wants a ticket?". I said me and I got in. 50 yardline, halfway up! I still have the ticket stub. Sports Illustrated had the run on its cover the next week and I taped the ticket to the magazine as a keepsake.
I was 20 yrs old and this man at my work was in charge of hiring extra ushers fir games at the Coliseum. He hired about 10 of us to work this game i was at about the 15 yd line when OJ ran past on his wsy to the end zone. So fortunate to be there and I'll never forget that experience!!!
I was a grad student at USC in '67 and used to see OJ in the cafeteria. He was always friendly and cheerful. It was so sad to see what happened later, a true tragedy.
Jerry Day It was actually the 440 yard relay back in the days before US Track had converted to the metric system. The world record will stand forever due to the fact that that race is no longer run.
I was born just two months earlier, and 3,000 miles away I grew up wanting to be a USC tailback. Almost 25 years later, I’m standing in The Roxy, a New York City nightclub, next to OJ and Nicole. I think that was the trip when she bought the gloves….
Honestly, running backs in the SEC make runs like this every weekend. The only thing that makes this remarkable is that it came in the last few seconds of the biggest game of the year when it looked like a sure defeat. (And before people start thinking I'm a hater, I'm not, born in '66 I grew up in the 70s idolizing OJ)
Well that's the silliest thing I've ever heard! The only thing that makes this great is that it happened with seconds left in the biggest game of the year! What do you think people remember! Plays that happen in one of the hundreds of college games every week or the one play that makes history and call it "The Run" !! I think you should wrap your mind around why your watching this and not a typical run in a not so great football game!
I saw this game, and was sitting low near the peristyle end, so I was looking down the field when this happened. SC was going in that direction in the fourth quarter. Simpson hadn't been gaining a lot of yardage up until this point, as I remember. Prothro was a really good coach against the run. Then this play occurred, seemingly in slow-motion. It's odd watching replays of it at normal speed. It started off looking like it was going to go for two yards, like a lot of his other runs that day. Then he got around the end and cut upfield: looks like a five yard gain. Then he cuts back, and OMG he's in the clear -- are there any defensive backs going to cut him off? No. It's going to be, and is, a touchdown. That was one of the biggest clutch plays in any game, ever.
It is a tragedy what he became, what did with his life, and what did to other people's lives. BTW, his greatest run was in the Rose Bowl against Ohio State.
What he became? He was found innocent. His jail time in las Vegas was over turned do to prosecution miss doing. He's still rich , free and healthy and loved by many. Seems like his life turnt out just fine
@@mchammer157 I grew up in upstate NY and, naturally, rooted for the Bills. Simpson and the Electric Company ... it was great. OJ the heroic figure. Fast forward to So. Cal where I live now. One day I was in a popular West L.A. wine & liquor store... there was OJ down the aisle. We exchanged eye contact and little smiles ... that was cool. "Innocent" OJ? Simpson's not rich but he has money -- his lawyers protect him from having to pay the $60M (!) he still owes the Brown and Goldman families. I still pull for the Bills, but I'm no fanboy for OJ because double murderers make me sick. (And no, Simpson's jail time in LV wasn't "overturned" -- they let him out of prison a little early.)
LA is so big with such beautiful landscape and weather that it was a bit less racist. Most ppl enjoy the lifestyle too much to be worried about the stress of exercising racism....except the cops of course
I am a Fresno State alum. My wife and I were in Monterey at a sports bar that Saturday USC played Fresno State. It was a big bar jammed with people split 50-50 Bulldogs v. Trojans. Wow, what a game! The USC fans couldn't believe that our Dogs were threatening to beat the mighty men of Troy. Then Reggie Bush pulled off a magic run to the end zone. It was on every highlight reel for the next few days. But the boys from lowly Fresno acquited themselves honorably.
I’d have to say no. He had one fumble if I remember correctly that was bad. I think the qb had an interception that was bad as well. Other than that it was a fantastic game if I remember right. I haven’t watched the game in probably 6 months. They should have used him more in the short passing game. Unbelievably athletic.
Consider: "Franco To The Bank-O Harris" (Name given by Myron Cope the guy who invented the terrible towel and local sportscaster). He got 4 super Bowl Rings and an MVP of super bowl IX ,plus 9 pro bowls in a row, first team all pro 1977, NFL Man of the year 1976, 1976 Rushing touchdown leader, NFL 1970 ALL-Decade Team, NFL Offensive Rookie of the year 1972 and a lot more. Don't get me wrong "The Juice" was great no question.
Greatest college runner in history. World class speed, great quickness, great eyesight which many people forget is important for a RB. A member of the USC record setting 4x100 relay team with a 9.4 under his belt. Whatever happened after all of that is a tragedy but should not take away from his tremendous ability.
The two lives of O.J. Simpson. He reached one of the highest peaks and fell into one of the lowest depths. When you try to explain O.J. Simpson to the young people of today, they believe world history started in about 1990. Same thing with Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain and Oscar Robertson and Pete Maravich and Red Grange and Jim Thorpe and Jack Dempsey and Joe Louis and Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson and Buck Leonard and Dick Butkus and Merlin Olsen and Deacon Jones and Sammy Baugh and Otto Graham and Bob Hayes in track and all the others....The last couple of generations that grew up eating McDonald hamburgers think they are the best ever. In 40 years, that generation will dismiss today's generation.
Steve Lehman, the offensive lineman in the clip, passed away this week. He was an amazing and caring person who went to med school after graduation. RIP big fella
I lived those days. Jim Brown had retired a couple years before. OJ Simpson was Top College RB and Gale Sayers was Top Pro RB. Both posters were on my bedroom wall.
Nobody knifes straight through the line like O.J. did.
The cut-backs, the speed in which he can slice-up defenses is unmatched to this very day.
I once took a stab at it in highschool, but I quickly realized I wasnt cut out for it. And now here I am, choppin' it up with you fellas. Go Broncos!
I see what you did there! 😜😜
I bet that comment took some editing, Wow!!
This is why he is a hero to so many!!
Wow how long did it take to come up with that?
Cut to the chase.
I am a contemporary of OJ. I remember him at San Francisco City College when he was setting records there. However, it is one of those things, you had to be there. In 1967 USC and UCLA were loaded with talent (remember John Wooden and Lou Alcindor?) in a number of sports. I played tennis at Fresno State and we won the College Division national championship but USC, who was no. 1 at the University Division, had Stan Smith and Bob Lutz, who were ranked in the top 10 in the world! It was a golden era in the Golden State.
Played against OJ in 1965 and 1966, Junior college. I thought his best game was the JC national championship, CCSF vs. Long Beach CC, 1966. Earl McCullouch knocked out OJ on quick toss sweep, met him full speed just as OJ was set to turn up field. Earl was a world class hurdler with exceptional speed. OJ left on a stretcher. CCSF was behind 35- 0 at the half. Second half OJ is not only playing running back, but returning punts and kickoffs. He seemed possessed. Scored 5 TDs. Long Beach never scored again and CCSF won the game. Unreal.
Earl McCullough played defense in JC? Didn't know that, good WR with the Lions
@@jamiecrawford8133 Played free safety that game.
When I was a kid OJ was my hero. Many years later when I watched the white ford bronco car chase , I was in shock like so many
others . Sad ending man .
Same here. I was a running back in high school and always wanted to have #32 because of OJ. I got it (although had very little playing time). And then '94 came and he lost me. Yep sad ending.
I felt the same way growing up and it appears that universal idolatry fed a vindictive, narcissistic personality. Truly a sad evolution of an individual who could have been a role model to youth.
I'd play a round with him.
Ever notice that ucla seems to have less black players than USC
...I know usc first all American WA black and had hall of fame Willie wood at qb in 1959..Vince Evans Rodney Peete Jimmy Jones Caleb Williams now ... ( apologies if I missed zny) ....ucla is a fine school
.but it's not SC..look..my father went to both
..said his education was more pwrsonal ( physics) the level of how sc folks helped him when he entered the job market opposed to no help at ucla was what really set the two apart
...fight on. RIP a Jackson Clas of 63
Even before he played at USC, OJ one of the fastest men on the planet - he was on a world record-setting 4x110 yard relay team.
Actually, 4 x 100 yard relay. One hundred yards was the length that colleges in the US used .. until the decade of the Seventies, I think. 110 yards is very close to 100 meters (109.73 yards) So that's how a college team could set a world record in a sprint event. Its similar to a world record in the Mile.
Simpson was fast at 9.4, but the reigning Olympic champion, Bob Hayes, did a 9.1. which corresponds exactly to a 1O flat 100 meters
@@brianstark2219: NCAA outdoor champions had the 4x110 yard relay (a quarter mile is 440 yards) until 1975, and the metric 4x100 meters relay beginning in 1976.
The 440 relay, of course. My memory is failing. Still, only Americans high schools and colleges did the 440 at the time. So, in a sense, it wasnt a true "world" record, as the American Olympic team would have done the 440 slightly faster. OJ's 9.4 100y plots to 10.3 100m. He might have made the team as an alternate, but would NOT have been in the Final
I watched this game with my father on our black and white TV...I was seven-years-old...remember it as if it were yesterday...time waits for no one....🕛
Michael Dooley
Me too, I remember my Mom saying that this guy is going to make headlines some day because of his tempermant! It was like 'how did she know this' but it happened! She was very young and was interviewed by some detectives because she had slept with OJ! She showed them where she thought this in her diary! I was 10 yrs old and she was 22! OJ had been to our Malibu home very many times and I was comfortable with him! The day he brought in a revolver and gloves in a bag I remember like yesterday! When I showed the Lt. he told me to never speak of them and threw them in a well in our backyard! Last time I saw OJ is the day he was acquitted! He came over and slept with my Mom and th said it was time to go! He didn't want anymore trouble for us!
@@rondy702 you have a mass fortune waiting in your well lol
@@rondy702 He murdered 2 people!
Amazing at evading pursuers. His slashing, cutting maneuvers were difficult to stop.
Even better in the courtroom. The look of disdain, when Darden the idiot, made him try on the gloves while wearing rubber gloves, is a classic.
O.J. slicing and dicing!
I attended Chabot College in Hayward, California, in 1966. My father told me about a talented football player from San Francisco City College named O.J. Simpson, who was going to play against us that year. We went to the night game. SFCC got the ball at kickoff and returned it to about its' own 30 yard line. On the first play from scrimmage, O.J. was handed the football and went into the line where there was a big pile up to stop him. About three seconds later, O.J. emerged from the other end of the pile and ran the ball for a touchdown. That first play made me a believer. Too bad O.J. didn't keep running in the same direction.
I have a feeling the Tom Besson is dead now.
OJ made cuts that no other player has ever made. It was amazing to watch him slash and knife right through the heart of the defense. No one will ever attack the way OJ did. He's simply a cut above.
Yes , he sure could slash and knife his way thru .... look at his dead wife
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OJ rushed back to that Rockingham mansion, covering yardage faster than he ever rushed on a football field.
Perhaps the greatest sports documentary series ever made
I was able to attend this game. Second college football game I attended. Earlier that year I was able to attend a Rose Bowl game, because my grandfather has two tickets, one of the few times Purdue played in the Rose Bowl. For this game we had end zone seats and OJ Simpson ran at us on a 63 yard touchdown.
It must have been a great run...cutting one way, slashing the other way.
That's interesting. I saw both those games as well.
@@MrJawnyNumFive 3 years later and you get a like. Bout time.
He was also really good in airport lobbies!
And at his ex wife's condo.
Should have been the first 2 time Heisman Trophy winner.
That run set up his deserved win of the Heisman in '68. Johnny Rodgers set up his '72 Heisman with his punt return against Oklahoma in '71.
All the jokes BUT he was one of the BEST to EVER play his position
Barry Sanders was close
OJ rushed for 2000 in ‘73, 1200 in ‘74, and 1800 in ‘75.
That’s 5000 yards in 3 seasons when they were only playing 14 games.
The best to ever come out of USC for sure.
One of, yes. Jim Brown was the GOAT. Sanders, Smith, Peyton, and several others are in the running.
Agreed
I remember this game well, it has been almost 52 years now and this game was for the PAC 8 Championship, the Rose Bowl, the National Championship, and the Heisman Trophy. It was a great game with the lead going back amd forth until Simpson broke this td run off a few minutes into the fourth quarter. The real key play in the game was the blocked extra point attempt on UCLA's third touchdown which allowed for the one point victory. USC won the Pac 8 and went to the Rose Bowl where they defeated Indiana 14 - 3 to claim the National Championship. Gary Beban who quarterbacked UCLA won the Heisman Trophy over O.J. Simpson. This was one of the best football games I ever saw!
You sure do love 😉 football that's for sure.
Gary Beban sucked in the pro's last while O.J. was a superstar in the pro's also.
I remember the day @ Shea Stadium OJ set the record. He played on sloppy surface, top 3-5 ever despite being infamous.
I was at Shea on 12/16/73 when not only did OJ break Jim Brown’s rushing record, he became the first player to reach 2000 yards in a season( it was only 14 games then). It was a brutally cold, snow and ice game that the Bills won 34-7 over the Jets. I was standing on the third base dugout when the Electric Co carried OJ off of the field. It was also Weeb’s last game as Head Coach but nobody remembers that part of it.
Hard to believe this was 52 years ago
James Cline If the glove doesn’t fit, You Must Acquit 🏌🏽♂️😁
I remember that game and run as an 11 year old in ROC. I didn’t even know Buffalo had a pro team until I read they were planning on drafting him. Been a Bills fanatic since he arrived. Chris Schenkle & Bud Wilkinson on the call.
He's had that slashing style since high school; a very distinctive runner.
He still has a slashing style
Once a slasher, always a slasher 🤪
Love him or hate him he was the greatest Running Back - college or pro - other than Barry Sanders, to ever run with the pigskin. The juice was plain excitement running with the ball 🏈. I loved watching this guy run. A football fan from the beautiful, tranquil Islands of The Bahamas 🏝️🌅🏖️🇧🇸
Jim Brown? Walter Payton?
@@jamesanthony5681 👍 stay strong my brother 💪. Peace, love and blessings.
@@wellingtonmiddleton3739 l'll do my level best.
I'm a Notre Dame fan...but have nothing but huge respect for U.S.C. My favorite game of the year.Troy vs. Irish. The best games seem to be played at Coliseum.
Anthony Davis. Awesome performances versus the Irish. Unbelievable second half.
I was at this game in the Trojan student section. I wish this video had decent sound. That crummy music kills off a ton of great commentary. The Juice was the greatest college RB ever!
The UCLA/USC cross town rivalry is still intense, but during that era it was off the charts. Those teams epitomized what it meant to be a Californian.
Years later Reggie Bush at USC made a very similar amazing run against upstart Fresno State in a regional battle with tons of scoring. USC almost lost that game.
Fresno State os not UCLA. Reggie Bush could have run for 350 yards. Who cares, it was not against UCLA. And Bush was not OJ, either.
Says a lot about Los Angeles and football. The Coliseum could not have been more packed for this game, and yet 10 months earlier it had only 61,000 for the first Super Bowl. The Rams came in '46, left in '95, and returned in '16. The Raiders came in '82 and left in '95. The Chargers came in '60, left in '61, and returned in '16. But if USC and UCLA ever meet up again both in the top-5 you could fill the Coliseum and the Rose Bowl if they played one half in each stadium.
At the time the Super Bowl wasn't a big deal, was just a novelty. It was considered a big league vs a bush league game
Without college football pro football doesn't even exist
OJ didn't invent the cut back run He just perfected it. This is great footage, but the sound is off the music is overriding the commentary.
No pun intended..right
"OJ didn't invent the cut *throat* run, he just perfected it."
Fixed it for you... (>_^)
He's a serial killer!
😂😂😂😂👍👍
left to right was his signature move
U cannot take away what a great football player O.J. was. Watch those snow games in buffalo amazing!!
yes you can for a cold blooded killer, yes you can, all his awards should be nullified
Come on, man. The glove didn't fit!
@@jayp398😂😂😂
Dang..... I was born that year this game was played, and i can still remember watching football as a kid in the 70's, he was my favorite running back.
I had his poster on my wall for many years the one of him running down the sideline.
Greatest ever bar none everyone new he was getting the ball and they still couldn't stop him. No passing game whatsoever to speak of sprinter speed power and elusiveness not a more graceful back. It sad what has happened to him later I think probably has to do to cte. He took a lot of blows to the head playing of astro turf in buffalo and all the other turf fields back then you would see how is head would bounce off the field if they study his brain after he dies I'm sure he has that. My favorite athletes as a kid was juice, the pearl , the doctor and Ali man this post brought back great memories thanks
I think CTE and a major ego played into his relationship with Nicole Brown. I feel bad for him. Nobody knew how football effected the brain. He had no control over that. If the NCAA or NFL knew they should be held responsible for the many lives ruined.
Barry Sanders
Troy M And the whole sword murder thing. It's all George Bush's fault of course
@@timjensen6968 I didn't know that you were a neurologist.
@@hassanabdur-rahman1559 I assume you disagree. If so, be specific.
OMG! My dad and I were at this game! The game that introduced OJ Simpson to America. Back when that mattered...
Bernard Reilly lucky, i love watching oj Simpson run with the football
You how about Malcolm x father who tied him self up and jumped on the train tracks....oh I guess lyching was a lie...sucker
O.j Simpson my hero unstoppable ad a running 🏃♂️ back late 1960s/ 1970s
What a talented and gifted athlete
I was lucky enough to see all of his games at USC, and he was utterly amazing.
And I guess that somehow trumps being a murderer. I am lucky I have my priorities in order and don't live in California
*After watching a few of his highlights, I've come to the conclusion that he was very overrated and wood be nothing special in today's nfl.*
@@teukel1157 *Damn shame, that punk doesn't live in socal for the coming hurricane. Well, at least the rest of those califucknians will get a nice soaking*
Was, dumbshit, not is, was.
@@teukel1157 You know, it's possible to appreciate the athletic skills of the 20 year old O.J. Simpson and still be appalled at the actions of the 40 year old O.J. Simpson. What living in California has to do with any of it is beyond me.
That USC fullback blew that linebacker up to spring OJ on that long run.
Boy that last comment came outta nowhere.
My first time watching this. Yea that was acceptable in 1967 I guess
My hero!! Thanks for the upload
The USC teams of the late 60s were what helped coach Bear Bryant realize that he needed to start recruiting black players at Alabama if he wanted to keep winning in the 70s. And the rest is history.
Yes.The game between USC and Bama in 1970 showed exactly that.USC had a all black backfield including Sam Bam Cunningham, Randall's big brother wore out the Bama defense.Too much speed.
In 1970, Southern Cal upset Alabama in Birmingham, 42-21, tied Nebraska (who finished 11-0--1 and No. 1), and upset Notre Dame (who finished 10-1 and No. 2). Against everyone else, Southern Cal was a mere 4-4, and got blown out 45-20 by UCLA (which was only 6-5 itself, although they nearly upset then-No. 1 Texas).
@@johnmanier7968 I didn't say USC won the championship that year but what they did in Alabama with the team they had helped change the course of college football history. They may not have been the most talented team but they overachieved in beating the teams they did in that era considering the fact that most people back then didn't think highly of blacks doing much to help you win. Bear Bryant certainly saw the light after his game with them.
Bear saw the light back in Kentucky which is why he left there and Texas A&M. At Alabama, he was intimidated by George Wallace because he swim and the Bear couldn’t if you know what I mean. But that game helped and basketball star Wendell Hudson integrating the athletic dorm at Alabama really did it. Finally, the Bear used those and threats of him leaving for the Dolphins got the job done.
Actually Bear Bryant was close friends with Duffy Daughtery at Michigan State, and Duffys' two national titles in the mid 60's began opening Bears' eyes to the need to integrate.
O J was one of the greatest to ever play his position.
and a great murderer too.
Agreed 💯! He was the first to rush for 2000 yards in a season. In 1973, the season was 14 games.
other then being a killer , he is a great guy
@@TheJpep2424weird how most white people obsess over those few killings, when they’ve killed millions on this continent, and millions more around the world.. and the killing continues in so many ways 😂
… and if they weren’t killing them, they were enslaving them, stealing their land and resources..then destroying the land afterwards.
Certainly the most destructive sub-species of man.
Come on, man. The glove didn't fit!
The Juice! SC produced such great running backs🏈
Is a great murderer get that straight dude.
@@bernardinoolguin8566 shut the hell up. O J was a great running back. That can never be taken away from him, regardless of what you feel and think. Your thoughts are irrelevant when it comes to truth.
OJ had to sell his Heisman Trophy, to pay his lawyers. Reggie Bush had to give back his Heisman.
One thing I hate about vids like this is when the music obscures the narrative.
Nobody wants to admit this now but in his prime OJ Simpson was the greatest running back ever and it's not close.
Nah. He was great, but there's Brown, Payton, Sanders. Lou Saban saved Simpson's NFL career, and that's not in dispute.
The finest running back in history. Just a pleasure to watch.
Give me Payton, Sanders or Campbell over OJ
There were dozens of backs better than him. Stop azz kissing....
LOL no.
He's a butcher.... stabbing dudes in the huddle & shit. Any accomplishments he had are wiped the fuck out bcuz of his murders.
O.J ruined his legacy, goes without saying, but his combination of speed power, and elusiveness is unmatched. In a bills team that couldn't throw the ball to save their lives he was the offense. The D didn't have to guess where the ball was going, much like Barry but even more so. He was it in an era when running the ball was the thing.
Nobody could kill, run i mean run like OJ.😊
Until 1994 he was an American hero. I am 53 and never saw OJ play during his prime but my dad did. They even did a subplot of a Mork and Monday episode about the “Church of the Juice.”
That TD at 1: 50 was amazing. He broke five arm tackles.
RC. What people seem to forget is that UCLA missed the extra point when they scored the touchdown in the fourth quarter to take the lead this game could have had a different outcome because USC would have had to go for 2 to win 4:44 44
This game was nationally telecast by ABC and was also significant for one technical milestone: the first time a "portable" color-TV camera had ever been used.
In the late 1960's, several electronics firms were rushing to get handheld color-TV cameras out to the networks.
While the deadline was the summer of 1968 (so these cameras could be used on the floor of that year's political conventions), Ampex was first to deploy a handheld portable color video camera, in time for the USC/UCLA game in November of 1967.
I believe ABC only learned two or three days before the date of the game that they'd be able to use that camera.
It was a home game for both teams ,So Cal and UCLA both played at the Coliseum
Being the best won’t save you from hell. I’m not watching him run. Anything he ever did on the football field is wiped away by his sadistic murders.
Remember it like yesterday I was 8 years old still remember it
I watched this game with my dad when I was 13!
Lehmann Peters really, i love o.j maybe top three college football running back ever
I was 14 and I watched it with my Mon who was 27 at the time!
1967 I'm 8 years old Peters you old man just kidding. I was at the game when Eric Dickerson got the single season rushing record to break OJ's record.
@@lloydkline7245 o.j Simpson my favorite running back ever love watching o.j.
.Simpson runs against ohio stat & ;UCLA etc etc
Lucky, john mckay ❤ him , legendary usc football coach
I was there. In the enclosed end zone. People forget that O.J. could run
a 9.5 100-yard dash and was on a great 440-yard relay team. I'm a USC
alum, but I felt for Gary Beban and UCLA.
@Joe 9.4 to be exact!
Actually it was a world record relay team. It also had another football player; Earl McCullough who went on to play for the Lions.
I saw his speed first hand. I was working with him in 1990 on a movie, and after we wrapped him he started jogging down a long street to his trailer. I came from behind, announcing that I was coming up to make the tackle from behind, he looked over his shoulder at me and then turned on the jets. I was like I was standing still as he took off like the roadrunner. I stopped and thought "I just saw what all those free safetys saw back in the day"
The legend of O J Simpson
USC vs UCLA was must see 📺
I was an OJ and USC fan after that run.
I was at that game. I was outside the Colosium when some guy yelled "who wants a ticket?". I said me and I got in.
50 yardline, halfway up!
I still have the ticket stub. Sports Illustrated had the run on its cover the next week and I taped the ticket to the magazine as a keepsake.
Amazing what people are willing to overlook when beauty or talent is added to the mix. Just ask Casey and OJ.
The uniforms are so attractive and uncluttered with junk!
I was 20 yrs old and this man at my work was in charge of hiring extra ushers fir games at the Coliseum.
He hired about 10 of us to work this game i was at about the 15 yd line when OJ ran past on his wsy to the end zone.
So fortunate to be there and I'll never forget that experience!!!
And despite this, Jeffrey Toobin is not known for this book, neither is OJ known mainly for this run.
You really killed it with that commentary. Very subtly clever. Nice work.
I was a grad student at USC in '67 and used to see OJ in the cafeteria. He was always friendly and cheerful. It was so sad to see what happened later, a true tragedy.
What people forget is that O.J. had world class speed . He.waa part of a record setting 4x100 relay team.
4x100yard relay. OJs 100m is about a 10.2
He could run 9.4 in the 100. Most WRs weren't that fast in those days.
I personally saw him run a 9.3 on the old dirt track at La Playa Stadium (Santa Barbara CC). He has speed to burn, and so relaxed at it.
Jerry Day It was actually the 440 yard relay back in the days before US Track had converted to the metric system. The world record will stand forever due to the fact that that race is no longer run.
@olemissfan91 OJ didn't have that speed anymore the night Ron and Nicole were killed.
The music was so loud I couldn’t even hear the people talking.
With good quality it had been removed. Better shit audio than no play at all.
You have to wear earplugs because it only drowns out the overly loud music!
"OJ slashes to the left, now he cuts to the right just like a HOT KNIFE through butter! GUILTY!!
i bailed at :53 ..............ojs pathetic
@@guiguox What does that even mean?
That’s when I became a USC fan. He was the best.
I was born just two months earlier, and 3,000 miles away I grew up wanting to be a USC tailback. Almost 25 years later, I’m standing in The Roxy, a New York City nightclub, next to OJ and Nicole. I think that was the trip when she bought the gloves….
I’ve been watching football for 52 years, and OJ is the best running back I ever saw play. Hands down
Maynard Krebs so what you idiot
Why am i not
OJ and Bo
O.j simpson super great college running back
WALKER!!!
He also invented the cut back...go to his xs home and cut back her throat and his one on one with an innocent friend was quite piercing
Honestly, running backs in the SEC make runs like this every weekend. The only thing that makes this remarkable is that it came in the last few seconds of the biggest game of the year when it looked like a sure defeat. (And before people start thinking I'm a hater, I'm not, born in '66 I grew up in the 70s idolizing OJ)
Its common NOW..NOT THEN.
Well that's the silliest thing I've ever heard! The only thing that makes this great is that it happened with seconds left in the biggest game of the year! What do you think people remember! Plays that happen in one of the hundreds of college games every week or the one play that makes history and call it "The Run" !! I think you should wrap your mind around why your watching this and not a typical run in a not so great football game!
@@rondy702exactly and it’s also clutch which only a few possess
He sliced through the defense like a knife. Went straight for the jugular to put the game on ice.
😂😂😂 💯💯💯🔪🗡️🪓
The camera couldn’t keep up with him. He’s the fastest back that ever was. ( I’m a UCLA fan)😢
I watched "the run"live.I was sitting at the counter in Titusville FL.I must have been around 8.Dad was off doing his space race to the moon thing.
Like or dislike him, the guy was well built 6"2 210lbs & ran on the USC Track team 440 relay (Back then it was yards). He was a great tailback.
As one Notre Dame defensive back called it, "OJ, as in Oh Jesus, here he comes again."
I saw this game, and was sitting low near the peristyle end, so I was looking down the field when this happened. SC was going in that direction in the fourth quarter. Simpson hadn't been gaining a lot of yardage up until this point, as I remember. Prothro was a really good coach against the run. Then this play occurred, seemingly in slow-motion. It's odd watching replays of it at normal speed. It started off looking like it was going to go for two yards, like a lot of his other runs that day. Then he got around the end and cut upfield: looks like a five yard gain. Then he cuts back, and OMG he's in the clear -- are there any defensive backs going to cut him off? No. It's going to be, and is, a touchdown. That was one of the biggest clutch plays in any game, ever.
yeah, he had some killer cuts...
It is a tragedy what he became, what did with his life, and what did to other people's lives. BTW, his greatest run was in the Rose Bowl against Ohio State.
What he became? He was found innocent. His jail time in las Vegas was over turned do to prosecution miss doing. He's still rich , free and healthy and loved by many. Seems like his life turnt out just fine
@@mchammer157 I grew up in upstate NY and, naturally, rooted for the Bills. Simpson and the Electric Company ... it was great. OJ the heroic figure. Fast forward to So. Cal where I live now. One day I was in a popular West L.A. wine & liquor store... there was OJ down the aisle. We exchanged eye contact and little smiles ... that was cool.
"Innocent" OJ? Simpson's not rich but he has money -- his lawyers protect him from having to pay the $60M (!) he still owes the Brown and Goldman families. I still pull for the Bills, but I'm no fanboy for OJ because double murderers make me sick. (And no, Simpson's jail time in LV wasn't "overturned" -- they let him out of prison a little early.)
LA is so big with such beautiful landscape and weather that it was a bit less racist. Most ppl enjoy the lifestyle too much to be worried about the stress of exercising racism....except the cops of course
Watts that? Seriously? You don't think the Watts riots of the mid-60s and the Rodney King riots in the early 90s had anything to do with race?
That run reminds of "the run" by Reggie Bush against Fresno State.
Reminds me of what I use to do in our neighborhood games.
I am a Fresno State alum. My wife and I were in Monterey at a sports bar that Saturday USC played Fresno State. It was a big bar jammed with people split 50-50 Bulldogs v. Trojans. Wow, what a game! The USC fans couldn't believe that our Dogs were threatening to beat the mighty men of Troy. Then Reggie Bush pulled off a magic run to the end zone. It was on every highlight reel for the next few days. But the boys from lowly Fresno acquited themselves honorably.
@@bestpossibleworld2091 The radio announcer said the same thing when Bush made that cut across the field.
He cut through the line like a knife.
Aw, c'mon now🙄
One of the greatest to ever play the game! People forget that and remember Broncos & tight gloves well yeah!
People forget the other touchdown were Almost every player on UCLA team miss him
This film clip was before all that other stuff.
Watched the game against OSU in the rose bowl and he was extremely impressive!! Best player on the field in my opinion.
You have your years mixed up. The '67 USC team played Indiana on Jan 1, 1968 (USC winning). USC played Ohio State on Jan 1, 1969 (Ohio State winning).
Ohio State held him in check in the Rose Bowl ('69), no?
@@jamesanthony5681 nope
I’d have to say no. He had one fumble if I remember correctly that was bad. I think the qb had an interception that was bad as well. Other than that it was a fantastic game if I remember right. I haven’t watched the game in probably 6 months. They should have used him more in the short passing game. Unbelievably athletic.
@@debrachampagne7715 What were his rushing yards?
He was a slashing runner.
That run, and his work with the Buffalo Bills- 2003 yards! So Sad!
The second greatest run of Orenthal James Simpson’s life.
Yep.
That we know of.............
@@justafanintexas7913 no doubt penalties nullified a few other great runs. But he's benefited once or twice from blown calls as well.
@@balrog322 - The second run referred to that sparked my comment was in the Ford Bronco.
@justafanintexas I know. Mine too.
Best runningbacks with long-strides an sharp cuts.. O.J., Gale Sayers, Marcus Allen..!
Love this story… OJ was an incredible football player!
(PLEASE turn down the music… you can barely here the interviews it the announcers!
man oj Simpson was good to watch from Australia.
The Juice!!! The best ever.
My hero too,usc,buffalo bills days too runs against ucla, Ohio state,etc etc
One of those big USC lineman was "the captain" on "Deadwood"...The guy who had the best fight ever filmed (IMO) with Dan (big Earl Brown).
Man is a living legend.
OJ....the best to ever do it.....greatest running back of all time.
Consider: "Franco To The Bank-O Harris" (Name given by Myron Cope the guy who invented the terrible towel and local sportscaster). He got 4 super Bowl Rings and an MVP of super bowl IX ,plus 9 pro bowls in a row, first team all pro 1977, NFL Man of the year 1976, 1976 Rushing touchdown leader, NFL 1970 ALL-Decade Team, NFL Offensive Rookie of the year 1972 and a lot more. Don't get me wrong "The Juice" was great no question.
@@jamesanthony5681 Franco First RB To have 4 Superbowl Rings.
@@jamesanthony5681 Franco was M.V.P Superbowl 9! And at one time held the Rushing title also 8 straight playoff appearances.
Barry Sanders
1602 wattrus drive Titiusvill FL.Thats where "the run"was witnessed.
The background music was not loud enough. You could still hear some of the narrative
Greatest college runner in history. World class speed, great quickness, great eyesight which many people forget is important for a RB. A member of the USC record setting 4x100 relay team with a 9.4 under his belt. Whatever happened after all of that is a tragedy but should not take away from his tremendous ability.
The background music is too loud. What did they say?
The two lives of O.J. Simpson. He reached one of the highest peaks and fell into one of the lowest depths. When you try to explain O.J. Simpson to the young people of today, they believe world history started in about 1990. Same thing with Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain and Oscar Robertson and Pete Maravich and Red Grange and Jim Thorpe and Jack Dempsey and Joe Louis and Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson and Buck Leonard and Dick Butkus and Merlin Olsen and Deacon Jones and Sammy Baugh and Otto Graham and Bob Hayes in track and all the others....The last couple of generations that grew up eating McDonald hamburgers think they are the best ever. In 40 years, that generation will dismiss today's generation.
His running is sharp.