*Even if the football player generally has somewhat more page views (despite the recent statistics indicating otherwise), that's not enough to be considered a WP:PRIMARYTOPIC on Wikipedia. The topic needs to be much more dominant. Also, I think the August page views shouldn't be completely discounted – there's an anniversary of the Tate murders every year (and there was also a spike in the page views for the football player recently – perhaps some anniversary there as well). When I search for "Steve Grogan" on Google, about one-third of the search results on both the first page and second page are for the murderer, and when I search for it on Bing, it's even more. Both of them show special sidebar information for both people. (Not sure whether that's influenced by my personal search history – help is invited on that.) The reason that I mentioned that the football player played 24 years ago is that my impression is that fame tends to fade after a sports player's career ends. —   
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