What may be stranger about Bob Costas' brush with the O.J. Simpson White Bronco chase is Costas' opinion on it.
The legendary NBC broadcaster revealed that Simpson tried to call him from the white Ford Bronco he was in during the famed 1994 police car chase. The former NFL player fleed after he became the suspect in the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman and Costas revealed the attempted phone call in an interview with Campus Insiders' Seth Davis, according to USA Today Sports' For the Win.
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Davis asked Costas whether he believes Simpson committed the murders, and the response was chilling.
"I know he did it," Costas said. "I live on this planet."
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Costas was covering the NBA Finals between the Rockets and Knicks during the infamous chase, with Simpson riding in the back of the car holding a gun while friend Al Cowlings was driving.
The broadcaster said Simpson tried to call him at his home in St. Louis and then again at the NBC studios -- Costas said he later visited his former broadcast partner in jail and was told by Cowlings that Simpson was trying to reach him.
Costas said a tech answering the phone at the NBC studios actually hung up on Simpson because he didn't believe it was actually him who was trying to reach Costas.
Time Magazine called Costas a few days after the chase, asking the broadcaster to verify whether Simpson had called, and, not getting the message that Simpson had tried to reach him, Costas denied having been contacted.
Costas did say that had Simpson reached him on that fateful evening, he would've tried to get an interview on the air. He said he would've tried to get Simpson to give up the gun he was holding and have Cowlings stop the vehicle. He added he also would've asked him "Did you do it? And if you didn't do it, why'd you run?"
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