So long, Orenthal Simpson - the former NFL player ('69-'79) [July 9, 1947 - April 10, 2024].

His slow-speed chase would lead to one of the greatest cinema parody scenes of all time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60V67eDc2vE

I was too young to have seen him play football but I saw all the Naked Gun movies in the theaters and I was shocked when things went crazy in '94 only a couple of months after I'd gone to see the third Naked Gun movie.