I saw OJ.

I had to meet some other guys.

That's OJ, man.

He was out there doing some camera work.

So I grew up to him, I said, Mr. Simpson, my name is Eric Dickinson.

He said, how are you doing that man? I said, fine. I told him, I said, at 2,000 yards in high school, I see. So really, I see, yes, sir. I like to break your record one day. They say, well, good luck with that.

I'm Chris Long, and this is American Prodigies, becoming great.

On this podcast, we highlight the fascinating career journeys of current and former football players.

Each episode, we take you on a trip through a player's life and along the way explore what it means to be

great because greatness comes in all shapes and sizes and every path is one of a kind

today we're going to tell the story of a player who broke some of the biggest records in our

sport records that still stand decades, records that might never be broken.

And he did it all with style, unique style.

No one looked like this dude.

And sure as hell, no one played like him.

He's a man who wasn't afraid to stand up for himself and what he was worth.

Today? Yeah, that's pretty

commonplace, but in his day, not so much. And because of all that, he attracted more than his

share of bad press. But here's the thing you got to understand about the NFL. Talent usually

wins out. And it's debatable whether anyone who ever played this game had more of it than this guy.

And we're lucky because the guy's a natural-born storyteller.

He's as close to an open book as you can get.

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