OJ Simpson: A Make-up Call

Since OJ was such a prominent athlete, I think we can use a sports metaphor to relate to his trial. Sometimes in a game, a referee will make a bad call. For example, they call a ball that clearly landed out as in. The team that lost the point from this will be extremely upset, but the team that benefitted from it will kind of look the other way and shrug. They know that they didn't really earn that point but they're willing to take it anyway. Perhaps the referee realizes their mistake but instead of overturning their call or calling a replay they will let the game go on. Replaying or overturning would undermine their authority. Instead, on the next play, they might do a "make-up call" like calling a double on the setter whose team had just benefitted from the last point.
I think if you view OJ as a make-up call it makes a lot more sense. Obviously, the black community had had their fair share of bad calls, with Rodney King being the latest and most publicized. The white community had turned their cheek and ignored the injustice in the system. Even if OJ was guilty (which I believe he was), having something finally land their way, even if it was wrong felt like a victory to the black community. When they were cheering, they weren't cheering for him, they were cheering that finally, something had gone in their favor when everything up until that point had not. Do you think this metaphor is accurate? Has it oversimplified the feelings around the case?