It’s a reference to the night that Domino’s ran out of pizza.
June 12, 1994. Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman are stabbed to death. The police suspect Nicole’s ex-husband, famed NBA basketball NFL football (derp) player turned actor OJ Simpson, of the murder. OJ is declared a fugitive and a manhunt begins.
June 17, 1994. He is spotted riding as a passenger in his friend’s white 1993 Ford Bronco SUV. An epic police chase ensued, heavily covered by the media. Mind you this was in LA, the place is lousy with news choppers. The chase lasted two hours and made for absolutely riveting TV. Americans across the continent were glued to their televisions. Domino’s posted record sales that night as people across the nation suddenly changed their dinner plans.
The chase lasted two hours and resulted in a ridiculously high profile murder trial, in which OJ was acquitted, only to go on to write a book titled “(if) I Did It.”
That’s why Americans still associate the Ford Bronco with OJ Simpson.
LAPD framed a guilty man. His lawyer gets all the credit - leading to pop-culture references for decades, including Kanye West suggesting your girl ‘got more brothers off than Cochrane.’ But really the police fumbled it in every way possible. They tampered with evidence that was plenty damning to begin with.
It’s a reference to the night that Domino’s ran out of pizza.
June 12, 1994. Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman are stabbed to death. The police suspect Nicole’s ex-husband, famed
NBA basketballNFL football (derp) player turned actor OJ Simpson, of the murder. OJ is declared a fugitive and a manhunt begins.June 17, 1994. He is spotted riding as a passenger in his friend’s white 1993 Ford Bronco SUV. An epic police chase ensued, heavily covered by the media. Mind you this was in LA, the place is lousy with news choppers. The chase lasted two hours and made for absolutely riveting TV. Americans across the continent were glued to their televisions. Domino’s posted record sales that night as people across the nation suddenly changed their dinner plans.
The chase lasted two hours and resulted in a ridiculously high profile murder trial, in which OJ was acquitted, only to go on to write a book titled “(if) I Did It.”
That’s why Americans still associate the Ford Bronco with OJ Simpson.
This is obviously not at all important but Simpson was an (American) football player, not basketball.
Derp, I conflated him with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Former sportsmen who had roles in zany comedies (Simpson in The Naked Gun, Abdul-Jabbar in Airplane!)
LAPD framed a guilty man. His lawyer gets all the credit - leading to pop-culture references for decades, including Kanye West suggesting your girl ‘got more brothers off than Cochrane.’ But really the police fumbled it in every way possible. They tampered with evidence that was plenty damning to begin with.