‘I’m gonna break all your records’ — O.J. Simpson rode his speed out of the Bay Area to fame and infamy. It didn’t start that way
Long before he became an NFL legend and the most famous murder suspect in the United States — or even a boastful preteen who once told fellow legend Jim Brown, “I’m gonna break all your records” — O.J. Simpson was a toddler in the projects of San Francisco, with homemade leg braces and shoes worn on the opposite feet. When the time to walk came, Simpson did not. So his parents took him to a doctor at a hospital near the Potrero Hill neighborhood where his mother, Eunice, worked. It turned out “The Juice” had rickets, and his family couldn’t afford the leg braces that were needed to heal him. So his parents made some. And from there, the legend began. Those famous bow legs that developed from the braces turned Simpson into a Heisman Trophy winner and one of the greatest sprinters in the nation; as his athletic career peaked and began to fade in the NFL, he also became a movie actor and one of the top endorsement personalities of the 1970s and 80s. That all went away when he was accused of