Bob Costas, Jose Canseco, Magic Johnson, and Robert Griffin III were among those who commented on the death of O.J. Simpson on social media on Thursday.
O.J. Simpson was trying to call Bob Costas.
It was June 17, 1994, and Simpson was the most famous passenger in a white Ford Bronco leading a police and helicopter chase around the Los Angeles freeways. Simpson had a phone in his car, and he needed a favor from Costas.
Getting through was a challenge in the pre-cell phone world, as Costas explained in an interview with CNN on Thursday when Simpson died of cancer.
“Eventually he called the studio where we did the NFL show from, which was also where we did the NBA show from, but on this occasion since it was the Finals, we were at Madison Square Garden,” Costas told CNN’s Boris Sanchez. “The phone rang and rang. Apparently, he tried it a few times. And an engineer eventually answered the phone. He said, ‘I need to speak to Bob Costas.’
“Who’s calling? ‘O.
