The Buffalo Bills’ decision to leave O.J. Simpson off the Wall of Fame at the new Highmark Stadium has already sparked pushback, and the reaction showed up again before the team’s home opener last Thursday night.
Before the 2026 season even began, Bills chief operating officer Pete Guelli said Simpson would not be honored by the organization. That call drew a small wave of protests, with activist Betty Jean Grant arguing that Simpson remains central to the team’s story.
“O.J. is a big part of the Buffalo Bills’ history and will be forever,” Grant said. “You can’t change that. His name was never taken off the wall during any of the three trials.”
Bills Mafia member Corey Teed made a similar case, saying the team should separate Simpson’s football career from everything else.
“His personal life is his personal life. You put all that aside and you just make it about football, O.J.
Simpson is the reason we started [putting] names on the wall,” Teed told OutKick. “If you go back far enough in Bills history and you look, you put all the legal stuff aside, the wife murdered, all that, and you look at football alone, and his stats, as a running back, he was the reason we started putting names on the wall.”
On the field, Simpson’s case for recognition is easy to understand. He piled up 10,183 rushing yards and 57 touchdowns in Buffalo, production that made him one of the defining players of the franchise’s early era.
But his football résumé has long been shadowed by the events of 1995, when Simpson was on trial for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. He was not convicted of murder, but the controversy has hung over his legacy ever since.
For now, the Bills are standing by their decision. Whether that changes later is still an open question.
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