Although a bit overrated overall, for a few seasons he was a killer running back. His cuts were legendary. The way he would slash his way through a defense and knife his way into the end zone would put the fear of god into his victims... er, opponents. Imagine being a defender trying to tackle the juice in his prime... it must have been murder!

On-field, the Juice was everything a team needed. Fast feet, hard to tackle. Off-field, he is everyone's worse nightmare: a murderer who got off scot free due to bad prosecution. The two halves of O.J. cancel out for the current rating...

To this day, I still can't believe someone hasn't taken this piece of sh*t out yet.

Original Comment: His double murder cancels everything this slime ever did. The number one example public lynching should be brought back, at the very least tar and feathers. Ditto for Johnny Cochran.

soooooooooooooooo guilty. the juries were all probably his fans.

Sorry folks, but you can't separate the man from the deed. Now, granted I don't have as much respect for human life as some others on the board, still when you kill two people in cold blood, you forfeit whatever "good deeds" you might have performed earlier.

Wrote a book called "If I Did It". *uncontrollable laughter* If??

He still owns the greatest Heisman voting majority of all time. It's funny how the Bills ought to be embarrassed by his actions after leaving football, but Southern Cal receives no such chastisement. Irish, of course, is correct, he was one of the three greatest running backs of all time, his 200 yard season, the first in the history of the NFL, still stands as a tribute, not to him, but to the importance of teamwork. The "Electric Company" was assembled to turn on the juice and it was spectacular. But, he should have been found guilty. Nobody in recent memory has unintentionally divided us racially the way OJ's verdict did, but each side thinks the other is stupid for their belief. The last time I was at the "Ralph" in Buffalo, I was walking down a ramp behind a #32 Bills jersey with the name "Nordberg" on the back.

Oh Lawd...We all know he did it...why's he actin' like he the only that don't know he did, he got off clean now its time to shut him up, before he get into more bs, this time johnny cochran is a bit busy on another plane (r.i.p brotha cochran)...it is time for o.j. to go sit down somewhere...a black man broke 'The System'..O.J. shut up and sit down somewhere...

There are some who have stated that activities off the field should affect a submissions rating. Although I tend to agree, there can still be no denying the greatness of a runningback nicknamed "The Juice". On the flip of that is the morbid thought, that if he could slice and dice another human being....then what was he capable of in a pileup. Wasn't aware that he only had 4 good seasons. That might explain his absence from the top yardage backs of all time.

A miserable human being who got away with murder? Perhaps. Yet, it doesn't erase the fact that he was the first man to rush more than 2000 yards in a single season. A former Heisman Trophy winner from the Universtiy of Southern California, Orenthal James Simpson was the next great running back immediately after Gale Sayers and before Walter Payton- playing for a relatively-hapless team like the 1970s Buffalo Bills. Yes, his legacy as a person after his gridiron days might be blood-stained (sort of speak). But O.J. was one of the best runners ever and a deserving Hall of Famer based on his gridiron accomplishments.

Just because he rushed for 2,003 yards in one season hes good? He had 4 Good rushing seasons thats it the rest were horrible rushing under like 900 rushing yards or something.

Murders can still be good football players. Just look at Ray Lewis! UPDATE: Did somebody not like the Ray joke?

Look, there's OJ the person and OJ the football player. No matter what, you can't ignore one side of the story over the other. Yes, OJ did murder his ex-wife and her friend in cold blood. The evidence is incontrovertible. The blood found inside of OJ's Bronco, the bloody glove and OJ's bloodied clothes was more than enough evidence to merit a conviction. That the defense had extremely convenient explanations to explain this was the long-shot that worked for him. Injecting the race issue sealed the deal in that case. However, despite all of this, we're rating football players here, and OJ was probably one of the greatest runningbacks in the history of football. His records are incredible and he was simply a great sportsman who made the game interesting. I do believe that sportsmanship however is a character issue as well, and that includes how you behave off the field. Taking it in total, he was a great talent, however, he lost it all because of his lack of control and discretion.

Easy kids- the list says 'as a FOOTBALL player' The Juice was a 5-star football player to say the least. . .too bad he hit his wife harder than he hit linebackers. . .

Graceful and smooth. I'm rating him based on his football career and not on his trial.

Sad, such a waste! If he did what he was accused of and it appears very strongly that he did then he is rated a BIG -0- on the list of NFL greats. His earthly accomplishments are nothing and the example he has left for young athletes is shameful.

O.J. Simpson, The worst excuse for a human being on the planet. Take lots of ice where your going Juice!

Would be a five, but I can't bring myself to give such a vile piece of complete and pure $hit a rating so high. My conscience simply will not allow it. On the field, he was easily one of the 5 best backs ever, but when you choose the type of path he did, you forever taint your legacy. It's tragic, but Juice will always be remembered as a murderer, not as the amazing played he once was.

Great football player. But. Guilty as Charged.

If I killed someone I would want to get away with it too. Awesome football player. Loved watching him and I wish the NFL archives would show him because they stopped doing so. As a player one of the best ever. You think your such a bad ass, give OJ the ball the you try to tackle him.........

Another talent in his annoucing days who ruined his carrier and damaged his place in football.

Well, he may have been a great football player, but isn't it important for athletes to have character too? Many children look up to athletes.

the best moves he showed were beating a murder rap. he must think a caddy committed the murders because he always seems to be on a golf course.

Anybody who rated OJ one star needs a remedial course on logic--giving him that rating on this list is just plain stupid. Whether or not a man is a murderer has no bearing on whether or not he was a great football player, and OJ most certainly was both.

As a running back one of the best ever. Reading the bulk of comments under this is yet more distressing evidence of the generally soggy intellects of folks on this website. For those of you who have difficulty reading, this list is a rating of NFL players as players, not as murderers etc. Feel free to make any comments you like, but try to keep your star rating within the realm of the list definition. If you want to rate Simpson as a human being, there are several other lists to do that on, and I would join you in rating him at one star. However, this is about his skill as a running back, and he should get no less than 4 stars.

One of the greatest running backs of ALL TIME. Awesome player, good commentator, fair actor, and a bad judge of women. Found innocent of the crime of murder in a court of law by a jury of his peers. It's interesting...after 100 years of murders, the first Klansman EVER found guilty of murdering a black person in this country came in 1993. Supposedly, all the Klansmen tried before this time were tried in court of law by a jury of their peers. NOT ONE conviction. This country stood by those verdicts. Maybe O.J. should've joined the Klan...

Great football player. Multiple murderer. Zero stars.

I am rating him on the football field. Pretty strong and very fast.

I guess money and fame can even buy the right to kill.

You people make me sick! This is for rating the man's football ability. One of the greatest. Ever!

Weather slashing through defenses or a wife, he set his goals and achieved them.....

What a ridiculous display by the vast majority of people on O.J. This site is supposed to rate him - and everyone else - as a football player not for you people to launch into a diatribe about his personal life. Sticking to the subject at hand: O.J. Simpson was a great football player. Perhaps in the top five running backs of all-time. By the way, keep your "ugly" and "unsolicited" opinions about his personal life to yourselves!

EVIL EVIL EVIL man.

Who cares? If a guilty man was set free then it shows an inefficiency in our criminal justice system, but an efficient democracy at work. If he didn't do it then he is free, either way there are more pressing cases of this that occur all the time. As I always tend to remind people has Ken Lay been prosecuted yet? Nope, the rich will always win in this country, but why do we let them.

What is wrong with you people?! This is about the greatest PLAYERS of all time, and O.J. was indisputably one of the greatest running backs who ever lived! Besides, he wasn't proven guilty. Only the killer(s) and God know what happened. Give him the rating he deserves!

Please put the category of O.J. somewhere else. I am forced to vote 4 for his football skills. He is murderous scum. Damn, he could run (and cut, too easy).

Proof that the right lawyers and a large sum of money can buy your freedom.

He is a ugle piece of afterbirth. It gauls me that he breaths the same air as I do.

MURDER MURDER MURDER DUMB ASS

all killers will fry in Hell

As a football player I won't argue about his obvious talent. However, the man is a murderer. If Pete Rose can be kept out of his hall of fame for betting on games, what in the world are we gonna do with someone who murdered two people? Give them five stars??? I DON'T THINK SO!

Okay, let's clarify: reviewing OJ Simpson here falls under the category of NFL Players (All-Time). That doesn't mean review him as a person, or whether you think he killed his wife. In fact, I think he did it, and don't respect him in the least as a person. That said, this is a review of Simpson AS A FOOTBALL PLAYER. And Simpson was a great running back. Simpson's main asset was his speed; at USC, he used to run sprints on a nationally-contending Trojan track team. What separated him from other, less successful, NFL "track stars" like Bob Hayes, however, was his uncanny football IQ and instincts. Simpson was also a large back that could take punishment and run over guys if he needed to. His balance and vision was a lot like Emmitt Smith, and he had a knack for finding the hole with good timing. Basically, Simpson is the prototype NFL running back.

This creep should have a ZERO rating! A one is too high.

I don't care if OJ was a talented player. He is still a big creep. For years, he used his wife as a punching bag. Than he killed Nicole and her friend. The stupid jury voted "Not guilty" because his high-price lawyer used the race card. I agree with Abichara. The juice has done nothing positive for the black community. Right now, he is playing golf or spending time with his bimbos.

blaqpower would talking about what a sellout O.J. is before the infamous trial. Becuz a brutha is rich and successful, make him a sell out. The "honkey" wife was his toy, and betray you blaqpower. PLus OJ soldout to the whites' many company to sell Micky D junk! blaqpower would feel different if it was his sista!

You know he did it.

Great player. I know that you are innocent. I hope he finds the real killer soon

He's a cocky, unrepentant, in-your-face liar and killer. He proved that if you play the race card just right, you can literally get away with murder. But one day he will stand before God, and no lawyer on earth will be able to shield him.

Anyone who has committed an act as brutal as he has deserves no credit for anything else he has accomplished in life as far as I'm concerned.

I have to say I'm really disappointed to see that so many people are rating him on his questionable legal record. This is for NFL players and their skill on the football field. O.J. was one of the greatest running backs to ever live. He was an awesome player and should be looked on as just that.

...or as I now think of him after his many dingy post-trial television interviews - O.J. Simpleton. To quote the great Bugs Bunny - what a MAROON! I agree with Snoopy - I don't care what kind of football player this has-been was - he is first and foremost a murder who got away with it. And, like one of his murdering predecessors Lizzy Borden he did so because of many extenuating circumstances that should NEVER have become part of his trial or the investigations. In Lizzy’s case the truth was lost partly due to Victorian prudishness. O.J.’s case was slightly more complicated and even more ridiculous; we had the odd little selection of bumbling Keystone cops, a bird-brained prosecution team, an alleged judge who quickly fell in love with his media enlarged head, and O.J.'s own nightmarish "dream team" fanning the racial tension fires for all they were worth. I hope the jury is still cringing with the thoughts of their colossal stupidity in handing down such a travesty of a decision. But since the very words “O.J. Jury” is now synonymous with things like weak minded, easily swayed, and tiny intellect I doubt they lose much sleep over it. (never repeat yourself when you can simply cut and paste yourself)

Hey, OJ! If you want to find Nicole's and Ronald's killer, just look in the mirror! If OJ weren't a fanous football player, he'd probably be on Death Row right now.

As a talented football player 5 stars but as a human being NEGATIVE 69 stars. OK so he was ruled innocent but, thats what big money, blowhard lawyers and a flawed legal system can buy! In addition, many jury members were afraid of death threats and riots in the streets if they voted guilty. Look Out!

I have mixed feelings about the guy. White american elites would be quick to bring down a black icon. I don't like the fact that white america killed 50,000,000 blacks through slavery, then flys a confederate flag and still trys to judge poor O.J. Plus the goldman family is a bunch of gigilo's, and the brown family tragically exploited nicoles death for their own purposes. For example Denise Brown started a fund for battered women and of all the money donated an incredibly small portion of it actually went to battered women. And Kato did the same thing. And if O.J. did go free, so did a lot of people who owned slaves. This correlation doesn't make sense, but yet ironically it does. O.J. may be a terrible person, there's a good chance he did it, and we should condemn his actions if he did, but we should also condemn the kkk, slavery (and recognize that slavery was the holocaust of black people and not let white historians put it into "cultural context" as they like to call it. White America look at the white murderers you let go free. Sacco and Vanzetti must not die!!!!! What about them?

To those of you that are judging OJ. you were not there. This murder trial is not between us and the courts but rather between OJ and God. if he was guilty he still has to meet his maker .if he was innocent than who are we to judge him. I dont know if he is or isnt guillty ,but I dont think he would have killed her with the kids there. I think he would have done it when they were at his house.

Not guilty! Let's golf! This f'n monster must die. A testament to the fact that 'blacks won't send there own up the river'. Let's just keep them off any high profile jurys and we'll get a little justice. 'til then, watch your backs if your girl ever went out with him...friggen mudsharks

O.J. Simpson, otherwise known as juice, holds two of the leading rushing yard categories. Even though I think he was guilty of murder, I think he was the second best rusher in the NFL after Walter Payton.

This man had an amazing career as a running back. In his prime he seemed almost unstoppable. It was unfortunate that he is not remembered for his football accomplishments, but for the double murder of his ex-wife and her boyfriend. They should not have taken him out of the Hall.

He was an okay running back with okay speed and power. I really don't know why people jock him. He was just an average running back. He had a hard time adapting to his surroundings.

OJ Simpson was a good football player. If anyone knows about him they would tell you he was good. But nowadays, all you hear abou OJ is the killing. There was more to OJ than that. They took his Heisman from him and that was not called for.

O.J. Simpson was a great football player, but as a person, and I believe a killer, I don't like him much. I think he has an attitude problem and if I knew him I probably wouldn't like him much.

He's another great player that was the man and he was an all around player that could run, catch and make moves. OJ Simpson is one of the best players that I've seen. He the man.

KING_PERRY1@YAHOO.COM- THA WEIRDO GANGSTA BLOODZ A lot of people are upset, because a black man got a fair trial. If he was guilty then the jury would have found him guilty. O.J. gives me inspiration as a young African American. To overcome an obstacle so great is amazing. All the injuries he recived from people like that EM&EM sucka. He's just mad. Trade places with O.J. how would you feel,punk

To the person who does not think O.J. killed anyone, I guess al the evidence implicating him and no one else does not matter. As far as him finding the person or persons responsible for the tragic deaths of two young people, I beleive he need not look any farther than himself, and IF he in fact did not commit these murders, I do not beleive he will find anyone responsible on any golf course, and I have seen no action on his part that he is even looking. Maybe he is, and if so then I am wrong. Also. this is just my opinion, but I feel if the jury had not been stacked with black people, and had been held in a different location, I beleive he would have been, and should have been found guilty in the 1st trial.Remember this is just one persons opinion. By the way, I was a big fan of O.J. ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD. He was awesome and he ruined it all.