The New Ford Bronco Will Debut
on July 9, O.J. Simpson’s Birthday
InsideHook,
by
Alex Lauer
Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter,
6/16/2020 4:57:09 AM
As we previously reported, the launch of Ford’s new-and-improved Bronco SUV was delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. After weeks of waiting for a new unveiling date, the automaker announced it would prove the leaked photos right or wrong sometime in July.
Then this week, we got an official date: July 9, 2020.
What’s important about that date? It also happens to be the birthday of O.J. Simpson, who took the most infamous Bronco ride in history when Al Cowlings drove the Juice in a low-speed police chase in a white version of the SUV back on June 17, 1994, ending in Simpson’s arrest in connection
Reply 1 - Posted by:
foxglove 6/16/2020 6:30:25 AM (No. 445969)
How is this a good marketing decision? I have lost respect for Ford? The birthday of a murderer? I’m gobsmacked and sickened. What have we become if this is thought of as a good decision?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Safari Man 6/16/2020 6:51:26 AM (No. 445976)
Coincidence or not, OJ is yet another black hero. Look forward to OJ Simpson Blvd in NYC.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
3XALADY 6/16/2020 7:08:37 AM (No. 445984)
I remember that well. Listened to it on the radio while driving down Hwy. 44 to my mother's, a six hour ride, then watched it on TV when I got to her house. And I thought things couldn't get worse, police-wise. Ha!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
StormCnter 6/16/2020 7:21:53 AM (No. 445998)
We were at a Texas Rangers baseball game that night. The expensive corporate suites each had televisions mounted in a way that the whole stadium could see what was broadcast. We were in third base front row seats and were just as fascinated as all those people up there on suite levels. Every single tv was tuned to the white Bronco "chase". No one was paying much attention to the game on the field.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
chance_232 6/16/2020 8:00:49 AM (No. 446035)
I was stuck in the traffic jam caused by that "slow speed chase. It took me three hours to make a 1 hour drive.
I thought he should have been shot for that reason alone.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 6/16/2020 9:05:06 AM (No. 446091)
Wait for it; wait for it: the employee that suggested the connection to O.J. will be disciplined, then fired, then ''de-Stalinized'' from Ford forever. If ever there was a rush to car company judgment, this is it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 6/16/2020 9:09:45 AM (No. 446094)
Will Al Cowlings drive it across the stage?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 6/16/2020 9:21:05 AM (No. 446109)
I'm not a Ford owner or admirer of their products somehow this shrieks of insane stupidity. I have seen some horrible ads on TV for years and often scratch my head and think of persons sitting around a conference table high fiving some choice of a crappy idea and this is one. Good luck with those sales of the new Bronco why not make them come in one color only, 'white'.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 6/16/2020 9:22:51 AM (No. 446111)
Intentionally pandering to the mobs?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/16/2020 9:26:47 AM (No. 446119)
Who on earth keeps track of O.J.’s birthday?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Red Ghost 6/16/2020 9:30:23 AM (No. 446126)
I'm sick to death with this nonsense that because something took place on a day (other than something like 9/11) that we can't do something. Just like this Juneteenth or whatever it's called. I am pretty well steeped in history and political science and I've been involved in what has been going on in the world for the last 60 years, but I never heard of Juneteenth. It took me several tries to even figure out what it meant. And now there is something wrong with the date that Trump and the RNC have picked for the Republican convention in August? Really? And now because it's OJ's birthday Ford can't bring the new Bronco out? ENOUGH with this ridiculous extension of political correctness!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MDConservative 6/16/2020 9:36:56 AM (No. 446138)
It's my mother's birthday, too...I doubt it is coincidence. She drove Fords.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
stablemoney 6/16/2020 9:48:22 AM (No. 446152)
The cops were convicted, and OJ got off, after slitting two white people's throats. OJ was an official spokesman for the NFL, incorporated their values. I wonder if the NFL will be adding OJ to their Hall of Fame. When I see them kneeling, I will be thinking of OJ and Aaron Hernandez and the rest of the NFL murderers.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/16/2020 9:55:30 AM (No. 446159)
Despite the hype, the Bronco won't even come close to a Toyota Highlander or many of the fine products being created outside the US. Detroit continues to run about ten years behind in technology and reliability. Unions, high costs and inferior leadership continue to plague Ford, GM and Jeep.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
mc squared 6/16/2020 10:02:23 AM (No. 446167)
Completely irrelevant. My birthday is November 22, but I had nothing to do with JFK's assassination.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
HotRod 6/16/2020 10:15:12 AM (No. 446182)
Ironically, Henry Ford was a racist. He sympathized with what Hitler was doing in Germany, and wouldn't hire blacks, except for a few menial jobs that no one else wanted to do. The current Fords seem to have changed, but you don't hear much from them.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Kate318 6/16/2020 10:16:28 AM (No. 446184)
I guess I have a different take on this. The Bronco chase was a manifestation of Simpson’s panic and cowardice, and to me, de facto evidence of his guilt. However it’s meant to be perceived, I see it as an embarrassment for Simpson.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
karo 6/16/2020 10:17:05 AM (No. 446185)
This is just stupid - the date is just a coincidence. Any connection is the creation of a few malcontents, including the author. The Bronco has a long and storied past, and real Ford lovers know that the original (small, nimble and iconic) 1966-1977 models are the only ones worth having. After that the Bronco was just a full-size pickup on a shorter wheelbase. Stop hijacking every date - there are only 365 of them.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 6/16/2020 10:21:21 AM (No. 446188)
Cool. I bet its a killer ride!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 6/16/2020 10:28:24 AM (No. 446191)
It doesn’t matter what day the debut is. It won’t sell.
I had an ‘84 Bronco for about 12 years. Big inline 6-cylinder with a carburetor. 4-speed manual tranny, manual transfer case with high and low range, manual windows &door locks. I could chain up all four tires and go ANYWHERE. The new one will be a dog - no low range, 20 onboard computers, no cargo space, automatic everything - and if you take it offroad, it will get stuck and something expensive will break.
If you want a dependable SUV or truck, get a Toyota.
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A clever riddle going around at the time:
Q: What's the difference between OJ and Elway?
A: Elway IS a slow, white Bronco.
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