Former Buffalo Bills running back O.J. Simpson is one name football fans won’t be seeing at the team’s new stadium.

The new facility cost $2.1 billion and took three years to build, from groundbreaking to last week’s ribbon-cutting. Highmark Stadium honors the Bills’ past with a Wall of Fame featuring team legends — but Simpson, the team’s No.1 draft pick in 1969, will be notably absent, according to NBC affiliate WGRZ.

“We have made an organizational decision that he is not a fit to display inside our new stadium and family circle,” said Pete Guelli, the team’s president of business operations, in a statement to the station.

The Bills were home to nine of Simpson’s 11 NFL seasons, during which he became the first NFL player in league history to rush for 2,000 or more yards in a single season. Simpson was widely regarded as the best running back of his era before retiring and transitioning to a broadcast career.

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