The Buffalo Payments will transfer into Highmark Stadium for the 2026 NFL season, and the group introduced that Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame working again O.J. Simpson is not going to be a part of their Wall of Fame on the brand-new stadium.
“We’ve made an organizational determination that he’s not a match to show inside our new stadium and household circle,” Payments chief working officer Pete Guelli introduced in an announcement on Saturday, in keeping with WIVB (Buffalo CBS affiliate).
Simpson was the primary member of the Payments’ Wall of Fame, which the Payments created in 1980. His title has remained displayed in Ralph Wilson Stadium.
In 1995, a felony court docket discovered Simpson not responsible of homicide within the 1994 stabbing deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Nevertheless, a civil trial jury discovered him chargeable for wrongful loss of life two years later, and he was ordered to pay $33.5 million to the members of the family of Brown and Goldman.
Moreover, in 2008, Simpson was sentenced to as much as 33 years in jail after he and 5 males took sports activities memorabilia at gunpoint in a lodge room at a Las Vegas on line casino in September 2007. He was convicted of armed theft and extra felonies earlier than being launched from jail in October 2017 after serving 9 years, and he was launched from parole in December 2021.
Simpson died in 2024 on the age of 76 after battling prostate most cancers.
On the soccer area, Simpson gained the Heisman Trophy in 1968 with the USC Trojans, and he was named the NFL Most Beneficial Participant in 1973 after a season by which he ran for two,003 yards and 12 touchdowns for Buffalo. He ran for 10,183 yards and totaled 70 touchdowns over his nine-year profession with the Payments. He was chosen to 6 Professional Bowls with the Payments and was named a first-team All-Professional 5 occasions. Buffalo chosen him with the primary total decide of the 1969 NFL Draft.
Simpson was inducted into the Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame in 1985, and his enshrinement and bust have remained in Canton, OH.
The Payments will play their first regular-season recreation at Highmark Stadium — situated in Orchard Park, NY — in a Week 2 Thursday Night time Soccer matchup in opposition to the Detroit Lions on Sept. 17.
