Sportscasting reminds us that Cowlings and Simpson had a friendship that went back to their teenage years. The two pals played high school football together before both joined the team at the University of Southern California (USC) and later the Buffalo Bills.
Though he might be best known for Simpson’s driver on that hot June night all those years ago, Cowlings was a terrific football player. Years after Simpson was acquitted of double murder, Cowlings’ efforts on the collegiate gridiron were rewarded with his induction into the USC Athletic Hall of Fame in 2009. The university also named a dormitory in his honor in 2017.
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The Simpson trial might have been a significant event in Cowlings’ life, but it isn’t one that he much discusses publicly. In fact, he has gone to some lengths to distance himself from the fiasco. When the FX network began production of “The People vs. O.J. Simpson” in 2016, TMZ reported that Cowlings threatened to sue if the show made him look bad in any way. His character was played by Malcolm-Jamal Warner.
In 2015, the Fox News network featured a story about many of the key players in the O.J. Simpson murder case, giving some insight as to what they’ve been up to in the years after the case had been closed. They revealed that Cowlings had fallen into “total obscurity,” still in the shadow of Simpson like he was on the football field.
