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In 1973, he became the first NFL player to rush for more than 2,000 yards in a season. He retired in 1979. Simpson also became an advertising pitchman, best known for years of TV commercials for ...
O.J. Simpson, the former champion football running back-turned-actor who was acquitted in a sensational trial of charges that he murdered his ex-wife and her friend, has died of cancer, his family ...
The People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson was a criminal trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court, in which former NFL player and actor O. J. Simpson was tried and acquitted for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, who were stabbed to death outside Brown's condominium in Los Angeles on June 12, 1994.
He was the only player in NFL history to rush for over 2,000 yards in a 14-game season, and the only player to rush for over 200 yards in six different games in his career. From 1972 to 1976, Simpson averaged 1,540 rushing yards per (14 game) season, 5.1 yards per carry, and he won the NFL rushing title four times. [ 35 ]
Lewis pled down to obstruction in exchange for his testimony after a bar fight he was involved in left two people dead. Lewis was named Super Bowl MVP the year following his arrest. On April 29, 2004, Lewis reached an out-of-court settlement with four-year-old India Lollar, born months after the death of her father Richard, pre-empting a ...
He overcame childhood illness to become a football legend, but when he was charged with murdering his ex-wife and her friend, his very name divided America
[2] [4] Henry played Sergeant Kowalski in The Green Berets (1968), Luke Santee in More Dead Than Alive (1968), and corrupt Sheriff "Blue Tom" Hendricks in Rio Lobo (1970). [ 2 ] [ 4 ] He also acted with Charlton Heston in three films: the football movie Number One (1969), Skyjacked (1972), and Soylent Green (1973).
Brad William Henke (April 10, 1966 – November 29, 2022) was an American actor and professional football player in the National Football League (NFL) and Arena Football League (AFL). He was best known for his role as Corrections Officer Desi Piscatella on Orange Is the New Black , for which he won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding ...