Prison 'Godfather' O.J. Simpson has a TV in his cell and hosted a SUPER BOWL party
By Helen Pow|
O.J. Simpson threw a Super Bowl party in prison, with inmates cramming into his 80-square-foot cell to watch the game on his personal TV.
The ex-San Francisco 49er who is serving a 33-year sentence at Lovelock Correctional Center in Nevada is one of only a few prisoners to have his own TV.
Simpson was convicted in 2008 of kidnapping and armed robbery. He is extremely popular in the correctional facility and has been dubbed 'The Godfather.'
Party: O.J. Simpson, pictured, threw a Super
Bowl party in prison, with inmates cramming into his 80-square-foot cell
to watch the game on his personal TV
'If you have the money, you can buy a TV at the inmate store and put it in your cell,' Norman Pardo, a friend of Simpson's, told The Post.
Pardo said potential guests were fighting for an invite to the Super Bowl party.
Prison: The ex-San Francisco 49er is serving a 33-year sentence at Lovelock Correctional Center in Nevada, pictured
It's no wonder Simpson was eager to watch the game, given his former team, the San Francisco 49ers, were playing.
Simpson was traded by the Buffalo Bills to the 49ers for a series of draft picks before the 1978 season.
He played with the team, which lost out to the Baltimore Ravens on February 3, for two seasons before he retired from NFL.
Former 49er: Simpson, pictured right in 1978, was keen to watch his former team play in the Super Bowl
TV: Simpson, shown left after his last game in Dec 1979 and right in 1979, is one of the few inmates with a TV
The film chronicles his hefty job of rejuvenating Simpson's reputation after the athlete was acquitted in 1995 of the double murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her alleged lover Ronald Goldman.
'It shows what it's like to promote the most unpromotable man on the planet,' Pardo said.
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