It's not the first, or even the second, question coming out of Thursday's decision by the Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners to grant O.J. Simpson early release.
But it's a question that had the sports world buzzing.
Why was one of the parole board commissioners wearing a Kansas City Chiefs tie? Was it some sort of homage to Simpson, the Pro Football Hall of Fame running back?
According to the Kansas City Star, the man's name is Adam Endel. He's one of four people who unanimously voted to grant Simpson early release.
Simpson had been imprisoned in Nevada for his 2008 conviction in connection to the armed robbery of two sports-memorabilia dealers.
Because of Engel's vote, Simpson can get out of prison as early as Oct. 1. By then, he will have served the minimum of his nine-to-33-year armed-robbery sentence.
But about the tie?
Here's what the Kansas City Star found:
Endel grew up an hour east of Kansas City in Knob Noster. He moved with his family in the fifth grade, and this was back in 1976 so the Royals' side of Truman Sports Complex was jumping more than the Chiefs'.
He has memories of watching both teams in person, including $3 bleacher seats for the Royals. He graduated from Central Missouri in 1989, and moved to Nevada the next year to work at a conservation camp in Tonopah.
He's lived in Nevada ever since, and being that far away means few chances to rep Kansas City.
"If you saw my office, it's covered in Royals and Chiefs stuff," Endel said.
So Endel, who's been on the parole board since 2009, took advantage of the live television broadcasts and livestreams of Simpson's parole hearing Thursday.
Endel, as you've surely gathered by now, wore the tie less for Simpson than for the cameras and any buddies back home who would see it.
"Yeah, that's safe to say," Endel said. "It was one of those little things I figured someone might spot from Kansas City, but I didn't realize it was going to blow up that much. It's crazy now."
In pleading his case, Simpson said he's basically "lived a conflict-free life" and that "I've done my time ... as well as anybody can ... I haven't made any excuses in the nine years I've been here."
Simpson, looking at ease and joking at times with with parole board members, said he never pointed a gun at anyone nor made any threats during the crime that put him in prison, and he forcefully insisted that nearly all the memorabilia he saw in two collectors' hotel room belonged to him.
"In no way, shape or form did I wish them any harm," he added, saying he later made amends with those in the room.
Simpson also said he has often mediated conflicts among inmates and took an alternative-to-violence course behind bars.
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