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O.J. Simpson was bundled in the 2024 Guess Awards’ “In Memoriam” section …
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Confirm out the clip from the ceremony — the audience was enthusiastically applauding Sunday as pics of the departed flashed onscreen … but when O.J.’s image appeared, labeling him “Former NFL Player,” an awkward silence enveloped the spot.
As the shock wore off, a quantity of hesitant claps could be heard … but the atmosphere remained uneasy.
Just a single challenge was really clear: O.J. did not come shut to getting the thunderous applause Clarence Avant, Willie Mays, Louis Gossett Jr., Carl Weathers, and Bill Cobbs did.
The In Memoriam segment was intro’d as “honoring Black excellence that we sadly misplaced this year.”
O.J. died in April at age 76 from prostate cancer, following a quantity of months in hospice therapy.
His passing stirred mixed reactions — some in the football neighborhood honored the athlete, when other folks remembered Simpson, who was acquitted of double murder in 1995, as a killer.
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