Joe DeLamielleure, O.J. Simpson’s right guard when Bengals quarterback Ken Anderson pulled the plug on “The Juice,” with a glittering 447 Hollywood yards in the first Monday Night Football game ever in Cincinnati, says he can see that 33-24 loss like it was yesterday.
He also sees the scene in a movie about basketball’s Pete Maravich, the part when the junior high-schooler asks his father what he’s watching when he takes him to see a group of African-American kids play.
“I’m watching the future, son. I’m watching the future.”
“That’s how (Anderson) was,” DeLamielleure says. “He was ahead of his time.