Still Happy To Talk Advertising

It’s been a good long time since O.J. Simpson was an advertising star. (“Is O.J. still the spokesman for Hertz? Not exactly,” as the old joke goes.) And he’s not likely to return anytime soon. Whatever shock value he might potentially bring to an ad role today, the prospect of backlash would surely give pause to even the most stunt-loving ad agency.

But Simpson still brightens to the subject of advertising, as Shoptalk discovered while sharing a drink with him last week after a chance encounter at the bar inside The Mutiny Hotel in Miami.