Me too. I don’t remember if I was pissed they were covering the chase over the game, or enthralled by the absurdity of it all.
ETA: Actually, now that I think about it, I was enthralled. I do remember watching the game with my mom, and we flipped to another network to get better coverage of the chase.
I was at my friends house playing Battletech. It was sort of a group birthday party for three of us born in June. We kept glancing over at the weird slo-mo chase but really being more interested in our game.
tonight on NBC
The People vs. O.J. Simpson: What the Jury Never Heard
I.e. words of more than two syllables.
Regards,
Shodan
I don’t remember where I was for the chase. I do remember where I was when the verdict was passed; in line at the Bojangle’s drive-through.
I was eleven. The chase interrupted Power Rangers, which I was watching at my grandparents’ house. I was annoyed because I didn’t think it important enough to interrupt my show, dammit.
With you giving me the date, I also now realize that the chase was exactly one year before my grandmother passed away, which…I dunno, it’s a little creepy, given that I so clearly remember being at their house that day.
…because they fell asleep after three months.
I remember the slowwwww chaaaaase, but I remember the trial more because it was on the monitors at my club and in those years I worked out regularly. Whether during the day when it was live or in the evening when it was regurgitated, it was one RDA-exceeding plate of OJ every day for a year.
In a hotel, having just moved with my parents to Little Rock, Arkansas. I was about to start the 9th grade.
I was leaving a Mexican restaurant and people in the lobby were talking about it. I got home 5 minutes later and turned on CNN. I loved it!
Oh, and I was at work when the verdict came down, and they had a TV set up in one of the conference rooms, or was it in HR? No one could believe the not guilty verdict.
I was watching the Braves game, flipped channels around between innings, and couldn’t believe what was going on. When my then-wife got home from work, we made popcorn and watched until it was all over.
+1
I do remember when OJ announced he was giving up his search for “the real killer” because he didn’t have enough money anymore. And on the Tonight Show Jay Leno quipped “C’mon, how much does a mirror cost?”
I was in a bar in Denver when the “slow speed chase” was televised, and actually wasn’t much interested at that point. Just another sports star/celebrity behaving badly/stupidly, ho hum.
I did follow the trial after that and was absolutely gobsmacked when the not guilty verdict came in.
What time of day did it take place? I remember it happening in a vague sort of way. I was 32 at the time and had enough on my plate that i didn’t watch a lot of TV. The trial was more memorable to me, as I taught in a racially mixed school and the trial exacerbated existing tensions
6-ish to 8-ish local time, according to Wikipedia. I remembered it as lasting much longer.
I had just graduated, and was sharing my apartment for the summer with a black woman who was finishing up her master’s degree, and her 10-year-old son. (I’m Caucasian.) We both agreed, without discussing race at all, that he had to be tried, etc.
Some months later, Newsweek said that the sequestered jurors had all their material censored to remove references to OJ, and one letter writer asked where he could subscribe to this service. 
On a sadder note, one reporter said that his preschool-aged daughter recognized him before she recognized Bill Clinton. :eek:
And when I found out about the Oklahoma City bombing, my first thought was, “So, how long will this knock OJ off the top of the news?” The answer? Two days. :smack:
I hope all the news specials about him get the lowest TV ratings ever.
Holy smokes! I’ve lived in New Jersey for almost 20 years now!
I was still living in Pittsburgh where I went to college. I was at home and my roommate called me over with a “hey, look at this. this is really weird.” We marveled at it for a surprisingly long time.
A couple weeks later I decided to move to NJ, which had nothing to do with OJ.
The rodeo would have started around 9 my time, then. Most likely Wife 1 and I were semi-comatose on the couch with half consumed beers in our hands. Our days started very early and we had lengthy commutes. Most of our TV watching while we were still completely awake was the episode of the,day for Animaniacs, Tiny Toons, and Batman the Animated Series that we’d set the VCR to catch.
OJ wasn’t even on our radar.
You know, something just occurred to me, as I’m re-reading up on the case. Supposedly, O.J. purchased a set of knives, including one that was the type apparently used in the murder, from Ross Cutlery in downtown L.A., 3 weeks prior to the murders. Ross Cutlery was in the Bradbury Building, which would have been right around where we saw him during that van ride. At about the right time period. No kidding, I wonder if we could have seen him the day he bought the infamous knives? Crazy to think about…
Speaking of which, about that time is when Christopher Reeve broke his neck. Not a great summer.
That was 1995. I remember that because it was around the same time that R.E.M. drummer emeritus Bill Berry collapsed onstage with a brain aneurysm, and even though they were the #1 band in the world at the time, we weren’t getting any updates on his condition and a lot of us were afraid he was going to live out the rest of his life severely disabled.
He was given the green light to start performing again 3 months later. I saw them myself several months after that. 
Without giving too convoluted a story, I’m several degrees of separation from OJ. The common person is a woman whose son worked in advertising for many years, and OJ was the best man at his wedding, ca. 1990! :eek: (Yes, they are still married.) Interesting thing is, Nicole was prancing around like some kind of queen bee and almost ruined the wedding because she was trying to upstage the bride, and nobody was surprised when they announced a few years later that they were divorcing. However, as we all know, the real reason why wasn’t revealed until some time later.