OJ Simpson, born Orenthal James Simpson (San Francisco, July 9, 1947), is an American actor and former American football player. Considered one of the greatest players in the history of football, so much so that he was included in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, he played for eleven seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Buffalo Bills from 1969 to 1977 and with the San Francisco 49ers from 1978 through 1979. In 1973 he became the first player to rush for more than two thousand yards in a fourteen-game season. Once his sporting career ended, he dedicated himself to cinema, reaching a further level of fame thanks to the role of Agent Nordberg in the Naked Gun series. In 1994 he was accused of killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman, only to be acquitted after a highly controversial trial. In 2008 he was sentenced to thirty-three years in prison (of which nine without parole) for armed robbery and kidnapping; He was released on 1 October 2017 and is currently on probation.