{"id":15021,"date":"2013-12-09T05:54:57","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T10:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=15021"},"modified":"2020-03-30T11:07:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T15:07:08","slug":"just-like-o-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/12\/09\/just-like-o-j\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Like O.J?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"COMICS-HEAD\"<\/a>\"spot-bilt-det\"How’d that work out?<\/p>\n

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I’m not really a sports fan, but it would seem that if you had a career after a stint in the National Football League beyond doing ads for a local restauranteur or auto dealer, you should hang onto it with both hands and feet. For every Joe Namath<\/strong> or Alex Karras<\/strong> who have successfully transitioned from the game, there’s dozens of flashes in the pan and even more players who leave the game for utter anonymity. Maybe they can get a break on a car if the dealer has a long memory or mooch an occasional free meal from the local sports bar.<\/p>\n

\"spot-bilt\"<\/a>O.J. Simpson was one of those rare ex-jocks who had the world on a string. He was good looking and well-spoken which was exactly what advertisers wanted in print and television ads. He acted on television and big movies like Earthquake<\/em> and Capricorn One.<\/em> Spoofing his running through the airport in car rental ads was a well worn gag. He was everywhere. If he could carry a tune, he probably would have had hit records. And then…<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, you know how that worked out.<\/p>\n

The sports shoe ad which was unusual in that it was higher profile than the usual comic book ad and featured a celebrity who wasn’t a body builder appeared in issue no.185 of The Avengers.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"AV185\"<\/a>This featured the origin of Magneto’s Wonder Twins The Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver who will supposedly appear in the next Avengers and X-Men movies. Scarlet Witch had mutant witchy powers, and Quicksilver could run really fast. I seriously doubt that their costumes will look anything like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How’d that work out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":15022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[335],"tags":[359,1742,12,726,9,774,2939,412,2938,2941,2940,336,2942],"class_list":["post-15021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-what-i-miss-about-comics","tag-ad","tag-avengers","tag-co2-comics","tag-comic-book","tag-comics","tag-football","tag-homicide","tag-murder","tag-o-j-simpson","tag-stupidity","tag-tragedy","tag-vintage","tag-waste"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/spot-bilt-det.jpg?fit=640%2C496&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-3Uh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17105,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/08\/19\/double-shot-of-o-j\/","url_meta":{"origin":15021,"position":0},"title":"Double Shot of O.J.","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"August 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"If the boot doesn't fit, you must...oh, never mind. 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