
While O.J. Simpson’s life produced one of the most dramatic rises and fall from grace in American history, his football career was something to behold, too, up until a disappointing homecoming with the San Francisco 49ers in the late 1970s. His two seasons with the 49ers, in retrospect, are a mere blip in a polarizing life that had far more captivating chapters: charismatic actor, successful broadcaster, rental-car pitchman, and, for the past 30 years, suspected double-murderer, though a jury acquitted him of the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown...