# "If I did it" - OJ Simpson **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 14, 2007, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-did-it-oj-simpson/419188 "2007-09-14T16:15:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2007, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-did-it-oj-simpson/419188/21 "2007-09-14T20:32:18Z")
[QUOTE=Greywolf73] Bwaaaah!! That’s the funniest thing I’ve seen all day. Where IS the “IF”? [/QUOTE] Look inside the I. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2007, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-did-it-oj-simpson/419188/22 "2007-09-14T21:05:13Z")
[QUOTE=JSexton] Well, they didn’t actually write it, after all. [/QUOTE] But they own the author’s rights and are entitled to all of the author’s royalties, which should be a heckuva lot more than 0.7% ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2007, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-did-it-oj-simpson/419188/23 "2007-09-14T22:03:22Z")
I think the L.A. Times reviewer summed it up nicely today: [After ‘yuck,’ the farce of O.J. Simpson’s book](http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-et-book14sep14,0,1770669.column?coll=la-books-headlines) > [@](#): > > If you still care about this case, if you think Simpson is guilty and you want to help the Goldmans, buy the book. If you think he got a raw deal and don’t want the Goldmans to get a cent of your money, speed-read Chapter 6 at the bookstore, or get it from the library. > > Either way, your decision is a moral one, definitely not a literary one. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2007, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-did-it-oj-simpson/419188/24 "2007-09-14T22:10:48Z")
Apparently it trashes Nicole Brown Simpson pretty badly. His angle is that he was a nice guy who got caught up with a whore who ruined his life and we should all feel sorry for him. :rolleyes: I’ll donate money to both families’ foundations before I pay two cents for anything Simpson wrote. A restaurant owner in Lexington, KY kicked Simpson out of his restaurant during the Kentucky Derby weekend. I wish everyone else would follow suit. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-did-it-oj-simpson/419188/25 "2007-09-14T22:20:11Z")
By the way, did y’all know that Mr. Simpson was accused of participating in an armed robbery in Las Vegas yesterday? Mr. Simpsons says it was a sting operation to recover sports memorabilia that had been stolen from him, and no guns were involved. [http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/09/14/simpson/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/09/14/simpson/index.html) My cubicle neighbour was all agog at the news and his theory is that Simpson is trying to get into the news to publicize the book. Which seems to me to be a totally ludicrous theory since Simpson is not getting any of the proceeds from its sale. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2007, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-did-it-oj-simpson/419188/26 "2007-09-14T23:55:49Z")
[QUOTE=Arnold Winkelried] My cubicle neighbour was all agog at the news and his theory is that Simpson is trying to get into the news to publicize the book. Which seems to me to be a totally ludicrous theory since Simpson is not getting any of the proceeds from its sale. [/QUOTE] When you’re a narcissist, any attention is good. ---
**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2007, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-did-it-oj-simpson/419188/27 "2007-09-15T01:06:08Z")
[QUOTE=Arnold Winkelried] My cubicle neighbour was all agog at the news and his theory is that Simpson is trying to get into the news to publicize the book. Which seems to me to be a totally ludicrous theory since Simpson is not getting any of the proceeds from its sale. [/QUOTE] “Oh. Well … he probably wants it to do well anyway so he’ll be offered other writing gigs.” ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2007, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-did-it-oj-simpson/419188/28 "2007-09-15T02:14:28Z")
How about skipping the book entirely and just sending a contribution (preferably more than 17 cents) to the Goldman foundation. The Goldman’s get the money, the publisher doesn’t get rewarded for tastelessness and O.J. doesn’t get the satisfaction of having told his story to you. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2007, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-did-it-oj-simpson/419188/29 "2007-09-15T13:50:22Z")
[QUOTE=chorpler] “Oh. Well … he probably wants it to do well anyway so he’ll be offered other writing gigs.” [/QUOTE] He can title his second book If I STOLE THAT STUFF ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2007, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-did-it-oj-simpson/419188/30 "2007-09-15T14:07:00Z")
I think the 17 cents is what they get after their lawyers get their take, the literary agent, gets their take, etc. From that, I think they give money to the charities and OJ’s kids. They were on Oprah the other day and even she told them that they got screwed on that deal. As far as getting the book, I’ve the same mindset as Christopher Darden, if buying the book means they’ll have more money to continue to go after Simpson, then I’ll do it. They were let down in the criminal system so the only way they can get “justice” is to get what they can from Simpson and that’s going to cost lots of money. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-did-it-oj-simpson/419188.md?page=1)