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  • June 17, 1994

    The day OJ ran

    On tonight's ESPN 30 for 30 series, there's going to be a documentary about all of the major sports events going on that day. It does facinate the hell out of me that you had all of these events going on that day. And of course, the OJ chase.

    I remember it for being the last day of fourth grade, plus my Mom had wanted to check out the murder scene which was near my elementary school.

    It was a very strange time for LA as we just had been hit by an Earthquake that January, a riot two years ago, massive brush fires in October of '93 and some floods thrown in for good measure.

    What a time
    "Everything is amazing right now and no one is happy" - Louis C.K.

  • #2
    Shit, that was today, huh? Seems like yesterday - I remember my family and I glued to our TV sets watching the chase. Folks were holding up signs of support on the route, off bridges, etc. My brother and I were betting each other as to if/when OJ was going to get shot by one of the cops or blow his brains out in the car, why nobody threw out one of those strips to shred the Bronco's tires, why at the speed they were going, no police got in front of OJ's Bronco.

    This was the event that pretty much solidified OJ being guilty in my eyes. Innocent men don't run.

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    • #3
      I was hacking into a rival school's admin office and jamming their printers with porn pictures when this went down. God bless the early days of the internet.
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      • #4
        Porn pictures from the internet in 1994? How pixilated are we talking here? Granted, our family didn't get home internet until 1997.

        Still, I can remember watching the chase with the NBA finals in the corner. We were wondering why everyone was going crazy out on the freeway.

        Still that trial, hoo boy what a mess.
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        • #5
          Originally posted by Abraham Smashington View Post
          I was hacking into a rival school's admin office and jamming their printers with porn pictures when this went down. God bless the early days of the internet.
          Awesome.

          This whole event provided come great material on SNL for Tim Meadows as both OJ and AC (I'm AC Dammit!),not to mention as Johnny Cochran.
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          • #6
            Wow, time flies! I also remember that like it was yesterday.

            Ironically enough, I had rented "Taxi Driver" of all movies, and had that in the VCR. I had laid down on the sofa, and fell asleep during the last half hour or so. If you remember VCRs, when the tape runs out, it automatically rewinds, and when the rewind is complete, it pops you back to whatever channel was on your TV. The movie ended while I was napping, it rewound, and I heard that lound "THUNK!" when it was done, which woke me up. So I woke up and was rubbing my eyes just as the VCR clicked back to the TV channel, and the first thing I see is the white Bronco traveling at the slow speed with all the police cars trailing after it. Honestly, for a second I thought I was dreaming - I couldn't believe I was seeing this. I sat there just fascinated, and watched it all the way through till they followed him in to his driveway, and he got out of the car.

            And Tim, I thought the same thing too - I thought, "Holy shit, he really did do it. Why else would he run if he was innocent?"
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            • #7
              Originally posted by Ed Hocken View Post
              Porn pictures from the internet in 1994? How pixilated are we talking here? Granted, our family didn't get home internet until 1997.
              It was pretty much just lame thumbnails and shit.
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              • #8
                I assmume these came out on a dot matrix printer. Meaning you couldn't see shit.

                Fun fact, remember Judge Lance Ito? He's still on the bench, downtown.
                "Everything is amazing right now and no one is happy" - Louis C.K.

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                • #9
                  God do I feel old.
                  Originally posted by Martin
                  Who the fuck is Kellan Lutz?
                  Originally posted by gravedigger
                  Basically what I'm saying is that, based on what I've watched so far, we should all listen to Matt more often.
                  Originally posted by Martin
                  And who the FUCK is Peaches Geldof?
                  Kellan Lutz's girlfriend?

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                  • #10
                    It's a weird thing, but 1993 and 1994 really stick in my mind for some reason.

                    Falling Down really did sum up the feeling in this town.

                    Bet you Minnesotans never had that going on.
                    "Everything is amazing right now and no one is happy" - Louis C.K.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Ed Hocken View Post
                      It's a weird thing, but 1993 and 1994 really stick in my mind for some reason.

                      Falling Down really did sum up the feeling in this town.

                      Bet you Minnesotans never had that going on.
                      No, we just had 'Fargo'.
                      Originally posted by Martin
                      Who the fuck is Kellan Lutz?
                      Originally posted by gravedigger
                      Basically what I'm saying is that, based on what I've watched so far, we should all listen to Matt more often.
                      Originally posted by Martin
                      And who the FUCK is Peaches Geldof?
                      Kellan Lutz's girlfriend?

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                      • #12
                        Shit, Milwaukee had Dhamer and a near race riot. All Minnesota had was the fictional tales of one Lucas Davenport.
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                        • #13
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                          • #14
                            Was it Super Metroid?

                            Also, there were a shit ton of helicopters in the air that day. As I said, the actual murder scene was less than a mile away from where I went to school. We all knew about the murder, much in the same way we had heard about Cobain offing himself. We were a bunch of media-savy types while we laughed about Animanics.
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Ed Hocken View Post
                              Was it Super Metroid?

                              Also, there were a shit ton of helicopters in the air that day. As I said, the actual murder scene was less than a mile away from where I went to school. We all knew about the murder, much in the same way we had heard about Cobain offing himself. We were a bunch of media-savy types while we laughed about Animanics.

                              I don't remember. I just know that I was stuck in a long ass line when I heard people talking about it. There was a large group of people in front of the TV display. Casual racism is more staggering to hear when you're younger, but I heard some things.
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