Don't Quit Watching OJ Yet....

[Joe Guy]

Just when you think you've overdosed on OJ Simpson, this documentary on ESPN came along and it is very good. It goes beyond the OJ story and shows a lot that was going on before, during and after the trial. It has current comments by Mark Fuhrman and other characters about the investigation and the trial.

It is 5 episodes with no commercials and it is free to watch On-Demand on ESPN.

Check it out. If you don't like it or don't think you'll like it, f*ck you!

[Long Run]

I have watched the first two, and it is an excellent documentary. For those not familiar with how popular O.J. was, the first installment really shows how he became "The Juice". I was a bit disappointed that they didn't note he is still a world record holder in track and field (albeit, he was on the last team to set the 4x110 yard relay record before the conversion to meters), but other than this oversight, it really tells the history of the time so that the all of this amazing story is in context.

[Big RR]

Isn't 110 yards equivalent to 100 meters? I laways thought that's why the US had the 110, 220, and 440 yard races.

[MajGenl.Meade]

He may not be as accurate in the Short Run

[Lord Jim]

He did really well in the Kill, Flee, and Skate Triathlon competition...

[BoSoxGal]

[Joe Guy]

He did really well in the Kill, Flee, and Skate Triathlon competition...

And if you watch the documentary, you'll see that he wasn't a very good golfer because he had a tendency to slice most his shots.

[Long Run]

Isn't 110 yards equivalent to 100 meters? I laways thought that's why the US had the 110, 220, and 440 yard races.

Actually, the metric distances were developed as the equivalent of the English yard/mile system. So the 400 meters was based on the English 440 yard race (1/4 mile). This was before the modern Olympic Games were started, so the Olympics have always been metric. The U.S. simply kept to the yard based system longer than any other country, but started shifting over by the late 60's and it filtered down to the schools and youth programs by the late 70's. The standard 400 meter is slightly shorter than the 440 yard -- about 2 meters shorter. Thus, when O.J.'s team at USC in 1967 set the 4x110 yard distance, they ran further than the 4x100 meter distance. No other team ran a faster 4x110 yard prior to the era when college and elite track shifted over to the metric distances (1976 for college championships). The only faster times were at the shorter 4x100 meter, leaving O.J. and his teammates in the record books (sort of, since the 4x110 yard is no longer considered an official record event).