I was watching the Monday Night game and they showed some replays of previous games on Xmas. That got me to thinking, do they ever show great plays by OJ Simpson or Pete Rose and the like during regular football or baseball games?
I believe the WWE scrubbed all of Chris Benoit’s highlights and matches from its website after he murdered his family.
If you subscribe to WWE via Peacock, you can watch old PPVs and episodes of Raw/Smackdown/Nitro that he’s in, but they won’t ever mention him in a current episode. It becomes noticeable around Royal Rumble time, because he’s one of only four people (alongside Shawn Michaels, Edge, and Rhea Ripley) to start from #1 and end up winning, and any time someone looks like they might do so the commentators have to talk up how rare an achievement it is without mentioning that he was the second person to do it and it took nearly 20 years before the third and fourth ones did so.
I guess it depends who the producer is. An MLB-produced thing isn’t gonna show Pete Rose.
The Blue Jays have completely, totally unpersoned Roberto Alomar since his banishment from MLB. He is never shown or mentioned, ever, in any context.
They often show brief clips of OJ when they talk about the NFL rushing record (he’s the only one to run for 2,000 yards in a 14-game season).
I’ve seen replays of Pete Rose bowling over Ray Fosse at home plate. Of course, since that’s often considered a disgraceful play, that may be a bad example.
Do the Cubs still pretend Sammy Sosa never did anything for them?
I’m not sure. Sosa, of course, is not banned from baseball.
For Sosa, sure they’ll show old Cubs games from the Sosa era on the Cubs Marquee network during the offseason and nothing about Sosa is omitted.
Of course, the way he left means that he probably won’t be featured on any documentaries
Sosa isn’t really on the naughty list. Everyone assumes he was a steroids guy like everyone else back then, but he managed to avoid any positive tests or other smoking guns. He turned out to be a very weird human, but there’s not much reason to censor him unless you’re censoring the entire steroid era.
Certainly the McGuire-Sosa HR race still gets plenty of air time in spite of the taint, especially when it’s the Cubs-Cards on national TV.
Wait, I missed it. What was Sosa’s disgrace or oddity or whatever?
He’s now white. (And lives in Dubai)
For real.
Count me in as one of those on the list who assumed he had been officially caught for steroid use. I didn’t know he was never officially caught, although I do still presume that he was using.
They still play (or did the last time I was there) highlights of OJ’s many accomplishments on the JumboTron in the Coliseum.
Semi-related: After the Reggie Bush Bru-ha-ha, I’d heard there was a ‘dis-avowing’ of him and his records, and he was to be effectively erased.
The next season, the VERY FIRST AFLAC TRIVA QUESTION was… you guessed it. Reggie Bush. 
He should get his doorstop back.
Sosa was supposedly on the 2003 “anonymous” survey of PED tests that the NYT leaked. But there’s an open question on how reliable that report is. It’s never been confirmed.
Sosa was not on the more damning Mitchell Report 4 years later. Sosa has never admitted to use nor did he ever fail a PED test. He was suspended for a corked bat, which seems like an isolated incident after they scanned some 75 of his bats in the HOF, but never for substances.
Sosa was never associated with Balco or any of the better documented stuff that came out over time that tainted pretty much all of the big names. He’s also remained staunch in his denials.
I think you’d have to be a fool to think he was clean, but whatever program that he was on seems to be outside of the mainstream that all the other players were on. His juice guy was probably his skin bleaching guy.
It was the same one that David Ortiz was on.
He had zero issues getting elected.
Ortiz had a lot more going against him than just to 2003 survey, making his induction stranger. It pays to be likable.
Wait, a guy I never heard of has seventy fucking five bats in the Hall of Fame? How many bats do they have in total? Can I have a Ted Williams bat?
He’s the only person in major league history to have 3 seasons where he hit more than 60 homer runs. If you are a baseball fan, you should know of his name.
No. I misquoted the report. They X-rayed 76 of his bats following the corked bat incident and none were found to have cork. They also x-rayed an additional 5 bats he’d given to the HOF at that point, all were clear.