Here is the link I promised earlier to that story about the 1994 NBA Finals. The series ought to have been a classic, a pairing that pitted old college hoops rivals Patrick Ewing of the Knicks and Hakeem Olajuwon of the Rockets against each other.
And in fact it was a good series that went seven games, but nobody cared because of what happened in Game Five. Of course, that was the game in which the OJ Simpson chase happened, and the networks all cutaway — including the NBA rights holder NBC. Fans of the two teams involved were livid. It’s funny looking at the retrospections of these fans this past week, all ranting about how the important NBA game was interrupted by this OJ nonsense in LA.
But most other fans didn’t care, they just sat there and watched the situation unfold on TV.
That was one way OJ impacted TV. I’ll talk about the other impacts the trial had, soon.
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