If you can equate a sports figure today to O.J back then.

[Th3G3ntleman]

Who compares? I'll be honest I was alive but def not conscious enough to have any sort of idea who O.J was or even the notion of celebrities/athletes.

And yes I binged watched that show today.

 

[mamba]

Probably someone like Michael Strahan.

- Retired football great
- Estranged non-Black wife
- Television personality
- Easily digested by cacs

If Strahan were to kill his ex-wife, it'd be the closest thing to OJ.

 

[Tide Run This]

Barkley

 

[mastermind]

Barkley

Who I was gonna suggest

Think OJ was a bigger star than Barkley too but that's almost perfect comparison.

 

[mamba]

Barkley

Well, didn't Charles throw a man through a window back in the day? So, it wouldn't necessarily be a shock to hear he killed someone.

OJ was a smiling, joking nikka. Cacs loved the juice before 1994.

Cacs love Strahan, now.

 

[Remote]

Barkley

Close.

I agree with @mamba
Strahan is a lot more likable than Barkley is. At least to the average American

 

[Frump]

Who I was gonna suggest

Think OJ was a bigger star than Barkley too but that's almost perfect comparison.

Nah Barkley is divisive as hell. OJ was pretty much universally liked at the time

 

[Will McLean]

Before he fell off I'd suggest Tiger Woods.. Strahan is good comparison too though

 

[Juggalo Fred]

Cacs love Strahan, now.

I got his autograph as a kid

 

[Ruck]

great question. i honestly dont think there is one at the moment, in sports at least. hell i think white people liked oj more back then, then how will smith is universally accepted everywhere.

 

[GunRanger]

Barkley had a commercial in his prime saying I'm not a role model, and yall think he's comparable?



I'm going with Jeter easily.

 

[woof]

People love Stray now, but if he goes off the deep end, his miracle PR work will hit the bushes and they'll suddenly remember all the accusations and craziness that very publicly went on with his ex-wife and hindsight claim it wasn't that shocking after all.

OJ had nothing like that in his known past. He was the safest black man ever in white people land.

 

[SpursFanSinceNovember2017]

Russell Wilson
Steph Curry
Klay Thompson
Derek Jeter

 

[Tommy Fits]

The closest is Strahan. A lot of you young guys here don't realize how big a star OJ was at one point. He was in movies and TV shows and they weren't cameos or straight to TV movies, they were legit and he had big roles in them. He was considered one of the best RB's of all time. No other athlete as good as he was obtained the level success in entertainment that OJ. People who never watched a day of football knew who OJ.

 

[Liquid]

It is definitely Strahan