‘A Very Strange, Complicated, Disturbing Life’: Famed Sportscaster Jim Gray Reflects on Death of O.J. Simpson on Fox News

Sportscaster Jim Gray appeared on Fox News to discuss the life of the late O.J. Simpson, who died on Wednesday at the age of 76.

Fox had the breaking news Thursday morning when Simpson’s family announced his death on Twitter/X, and Gray provided Fox’s Dana Perino his emotional response to the news, touching on his acquittal for murder as well as his earlier football and entertainment careers:

He was a great football player, a great running back. He had the single season rushing record for a long, long time in the National Football League that was broken by Eric Dickerson in 1984. Dickerson’s record still stands to this day, 2105. But O.J. was the first running back in the National Football League to eclipse 2000 yards in a single season. Hasn’t happened too much in the National Football League history, and he had that record. And he was a bigger than life figure when he came to the University of Southern California. He kind of lit up, he kind of lit up the playing field, and he kind of took Hollywood by storm.

He was one of those guys that had this magnetism that attracted everybody to him and, had a big smile, had a tremendous career and commercials with Hertz, amongst others, and running through airports. And he was an icon in football. And he went on to have a broadcasting career with ABC and NBC. Appeared regularly with Howard Cosell. And he was a fixture and had a spotlight in America on television because of what he had done on the football field.

After touching on the murder charges and post-trial criminal activities, Gray added that after the 1995 murder trial, “I never spoke to him again after that time. I did see him at a fight one night, but our paths did not cross. A very disturbing, complicated life O.J. Simpson had.”

Watch the video above via Fox News.