I was in a restaurant around dinner time when I saw a news flash that interrupted the basketball game that informed me that OJ Simpson’s girlfriend, Christie Prody, had been admitted to a Florida hospital for a head injury. I am pretty sure that the thoughts that popped into my head are the same as many others… here we go again. OJ Simpson has gone from being the lovable actor and NFL sports hero to this ball of hot mess that finds trouble at every turn ever since he was on trial for the murders of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

The details of this most recent debacle range from OJ claiming she had been on a drinking binge and she fell at a gas station and that is how she sustained those injuries. The National Inquirer broke this story and claims to have evidence that the injuries are consistent to that of a beating and are far more severe than injuries she could have sustained from the fall alone. OJ of course denies this and is upset by their claims. They point out that OJ’s attorney Yale Galanter has publicly denied these allegations just as he denied that OJ was writing a “what if I killed her” book that he actually did help write.

Now I do not necessarily care about this story yet and most people will not either. However that being said, I find it extremely fishy that:

a) there was a police report filed for a slip and fall at a gas station
b) that they then went and found OJ to question him about it even though he was not there
c) that she may have had bruises and marks on her legs, face, arms, and butt
d) that OJ Simpson’s lawyer has officially denied OJ’s involvement

I can’t think of one other instance where “some guy’s” girlfriend slips and busts her ass and it stops national television programming. I would have to assume that the network(s) either got their story WAY wrong and ran with it, or they thought there may be something to this. Is that why quite a few people stopped their Valentine’s Day dinners to read the news flash? Regardless, many in America are looking for a reason to get at this guy even though he was not criminally convicted of the crimes against his former wife and her friend. Is the media just connecting dots that don’t exist? Is OJ’s name so “hot” that anything he - or anyone connected to him has a boo-boo that it makes national BREAKING NEWS?

Chris Rock said it best about OJ years ago in his “Bigger and Blacker” HBO special:

“That shit wasn’t about race… that shit was about fame. If O.J. wasn’t famous he’d be in jail right now. If O.J. drove a bus, he wouldn’t even be O.J. He’d be Orenthal the bus driving murderer.”