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Bill Bender talks Tiger and O.J. on a busy Thursday · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Bill bendersportingnews dot Com also on x as well, Bill Bender ninety two,
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  Bill, welcome in, sir. How are you must almost mister Cale?
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  I was watching Tiger Woods and so, like I'm sure forty something men like
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  me, they just get lost when we start watching him. And all these
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  years later, I still enjoy the first round of the Masters. Now,
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  there's no doubt. We were talking about it yesterday, you know, just
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  kind of the betting lines for the Masters, and of course Tiger wailed down
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  the line. I said, I wonder how many people will take a flyer
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  on Tiger just to hope that, you know, hey, maybe he's got
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  it one more time. You know what I put I can I think I
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  can say this on there. I put two dollars down on it, just
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  for fun. And you know, if he wins it all, we'll have
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  a couple bucks to take the life out for dinner and go from there.
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  But uh, yeah, it does give me incentive to watch. And he's
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  just it's still all these years, he's the most captivating show in golf,
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  which is very interesting. Oh, there's no doubt about it, no doubt,
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  Bill, you know. O. J. Simpson obviously passed yesterday and
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  you kind of look across the sports world and mixed messages. Obviously we know
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  everything about his life, but it seems like a lot of people are trying
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  to it's hard to kind of find what to say. But when you look
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  at OJ Simpson, I mean, you know, there's the football side and
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  the sports side, there's the personal side that was obviously a disaster and everything
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  that went on off the field. What do you actually when you hear O.
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  J. Simpson and do you hear that name, is it forever going
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  to be everything with what happened off the field? Or will people remember on
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  the field. Well, it depends on the generation. If you're a like
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  I said, you're forty four like me, it's less you really didn't get
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  to see him play where you don't really remember him playing for the forty nine
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  ers. It's more actor and Bronco Chase and the trial, and you know,
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  for guys that were in my dad's age, it was I remember my
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  dad telling me that, hey, man, Oj was one of the best
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  college football players I've ever seen you now, and then you take that to
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  Buffalo and then his later life obviously became a little bit of a circus.
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  But I don't think OJ. We were talking about this in our office to
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  day. I don't think OJ hits that youngest younger generation quite like he hits
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  ours, because I just think, you know, you had It's almost like
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  you had to be there to experience the Bronco Chase and the trial and the
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  mass media that surrounded his life. Very complicated thing. But I'll probably watch
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  OJ Made in America again as a result. Yeah. Look, when I
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  was in college, I was a freshman, or maybe maybe I was right,
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  I can't remember. We had a COMP one or COMP two class.
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  It was a summer class. The entire class was writing assignments on that whole
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  trial, like I remember, like it was yesterday. It's crazy. Oh
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  yeah, And I remember the Bronco Chase from the standpoint of I mean,
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  could you imagine. I can't imagine in the social media agent today if they
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  broke in on an NBA Finals game to follow somebody like that. That's how
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  big of a story it was. It really transcended sports culture, entertainment and
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  had all of it. And it was my wife liked to point out,
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  I mean, the the ripple effects went down all the way to the Kardashians,
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  to the present day. It's really a wild story. Bill Bender on
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  your radio Thursday edition of the program. Make sure to find him on X
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  at bill Bender ninety two. Check them out at the Sportingnews dot com and
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  also want X as well.