{"id":163253,"date":"2021-02-02T15:11:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T23:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=163253"},"modified":"2021-02-02T16:15:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T00:15:35","slug":"las-vegas-resident-o-j-simpson-tweets-vaccine-photo-prompts-twitter-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/las-vegas-resident-o-j-simpson-tweets-vaccine-photo-prompts-twitter-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Resident O.J. Simpson Tweets Vaccine Photo, Prompts Twitter Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Former football star and high-profile defendant O.J. Simpson tweeted that he has received a COVID-19 vaccine, sparking commentary on social media sites. Acquitted in the 1994 killing of his former wife and her friend, Simpson later was imprisoned for an armed confrontation at a Las Vegas hotel-casino.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_163270\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-163270\" data-style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-163270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/OJ-Simpson-1-142x105.png\" alt=\"O.J. Simpson\" width=\"1200\" height=\"887\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/OJ-Simpson-1-142x105.png 142w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/OJ-Simpson-1-768x568.png 768w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/OJ-Simpson-1.png 982w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption  id=\"caption-attachment-163270\"class=\"text-description\">O.J. Simpson receives a COVID-19 vaccine shot at a Las Vegas pharmacy. Simpson tweeted the photo, urging others to get a shot. (Image: <em>The Independent<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cNo ill effects,\u201d Simpson, 73, tweeted Sunday regarding his vaccination. Simpson had received a Pfizer shot Friday at a \u201clocal\u201d Walgreens pharmacy. Simpson lives in Las Vegas. He tweeted a photo of himself getting the shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In a video tweet Sunday, Simpson noted that his age made him eligible for a shot under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/nevada-casino-employees-4th-in-essential-workforce-lane-for-covid-19-vaccine\/\">Nevada guidelines<\/a>. He joked that he recently had his <span class=\"s1\">\u201c<\/span>34th annual 39th birthday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Simpson said in the video tweet that he and his daughter spent four hours on the phone over two days, lining up a reservation for a shot. His daughter did most of the waiting on the phone, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Saying in the video he is &#8220;just fine,&#8221; Simpson pulled down a coronavirus mask to reveal prank false teeth. The teeth are misshapen. \u201cI\u2019m just teasing, but, no, I\u2019ve had no ill effect whatsoever,\u201d he said. The outside of his mask includes the words \u201cThe Juice,\u201d his longtime nickname.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWear your mask,\u201d he said. \u201cGet the shot.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Twitter Users Respond<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Simpson&#8217;s vaccination prompted comments on social media sites.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">One Twitter user identified as \u201cRobin [REDACTED]\u201d tweeted, \u201cI just saw OJ Simpson was trending, but for all the wrong reasons. Apparently keeping him alive is more important than keeping me alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Another user identified as \u201ci bless the rains down in castamere\u201d noted Simpson meets the age requirement for a vaccination.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"main-blockquote\">\n<p class=\"p1\">He\u2019s over 65 and unfortunately no one thought to include an \u2018except for specifically OJ Simpson\u2019 provision,\u201d the user tweeted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Arthur Caplan, a bioethics professor at New York University Langone Medical Center, told the <i>Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/i> that Simpson is qualified for a shot. Under the guidelines, \u201cEven jerky celebrities who meet standards are eligible for the vaccine,\u201d the professor said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Paroled From Prison<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">As a standout running back at the University of Southern California, Simpson won the 1968 Heisman Trophy. The trophy is awarded every year to the top college football player. From there, Simpson played in the National Football League, mostly for the Buffalo Bills. Late in his career, he played for his hometown San Francisco 49ers.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Simpson also was known for his acting roles on television and in movies. In addition, he is remembered for Hertz rental car television commercials showing him dashing through airports.<\/p>\n<div class=\"callout\">\n<p class=\"p1\">In a highly publicized criminal trial, a jury acquitted Simpson in 1995 for the June 1994 slayings in Southern California of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman. A civil jury later found him liable for wrongful death and ordered him to pay $33.5 million in damages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">In 2008, Simpson was found guilty of armed robbery and kidnapping in attempting to retrieve personal items from football memorabilia dealers at the Palace Station Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. After serving nine years behind bars, Simpson was paroled in 2017 from the Lovelock Correctional Facility in Northern Nevada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Last year, Simpson was in the news over a legal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/cosmopolitan-las-vegas-says-damaging-oj-simpson-impossible\/\">dispute with the Cosmopolitan<\/a> of Las Vegas. He had been escorted from the resort on the Strip in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former football star and high-profile defendant O.J. Simpson tweeted that he has received a COVID-19 vaccine, sparking commentary on social media sites. Acquitted in the 1994 killing of his former wife and her friend, Simpson later was imprisoned for an armed confrontation at a Las Vegas hotel-casino. \u201cNo ill effects,\u201d Simpson, 73, tweeted Sunday regarding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":163257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Las Vegas Resident O.J. Simpson Tweets Vaccine Photo, Prompts Twitter Storm - Casino.org Las Vegas Resident O.J. Simpson Tweets Vaccine Photo, Prompts Twitter Storm<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former football star and high-profile defendant O.J. Simpson tweeted that he has received a COVID-19 vaccine, sparking commentary on social media sites. 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