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Still, the Briarcrest football coach was interested in Oher, not just as a prospect for the team but as a redemption story. This was a kid who’d never been given half a chance, he told the school president and principal, making the case for a very large exception to their typical admissions process. The principal, Steve Simpson, felt stirrings of sympathy and issued Oher a challenge: If he could get his grades up in another private school, he could enter the far more prestigious Briarcrest the next semester. Michael Oher, the former NFL player who was the subject of the tale of adoption and athletic triumph documented in The Blind Side, has alleged that the story at the heart of the popular book and movie was a lie.
Side of ‘The Blind Side’ Story, Read To Hear Michael Oher’s Side of ‘The Blind Side’ Story, Read
Lewis, Michael (September 2, 2006). The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 039306123X. The Blind Side is in large part a biography of offensive lineman Michael Oher, and it uses his story as an example of the effects a changing game can have on an individual. In this book you get a heartwarming story in the forefront, while also learning about the intricacies of the football offensive line. This meant that the next time I tried watching football I had something specific I wanted to observe (seeing the things I had read about actually in action), which drew me in and allowed me to finally start following the game. If Oher had been adopted by the Tuohys, he would have been a legal member of their family and had control of his finances relating to the film. As someone under a conservatorship, Oher ceded that control to the Tuohys. And so it went in football. The game attracted the very people most likely to get in trouble outside” The Tuohy's then 15-year-old daughter Collins was in one of Michael's classes and she told her father about the big quiet new guy in her class. Sean made an effort to get to know him and realized that he was hungry all day and that he had no money to buy lunch. So, Sean started to pay for his lunches. - Author Michael Lewis InterviewDavid Karger, The Academy's new Best Picture rule: How it will change the prediction period, Entertainment Weekly, June 15, 2011, accessed February 4, 2014. Tuohy family on the field at Ole Miss, where Michael and Collins attended. Why did Michael Oher choose to go to The University of Mississippi (Ole Miss)?
Blind Side: Evolution of a Game - Wikipedia The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game - Wikipedia
The Blind Side by Michael Lewis was not one of the Biographies on my massive To-Read list. I did not see the movie and I am probably not a true sports fan. Nonetheless, when Boy brought the book home for his Sports Literature class, I had to read it first. He told me it was about football. Yes. According to the Michael Lewis book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, the football coach at Briarcrest, Hugh Freeze (referred to as Burt Cotton in the movie), did encourage his colleagues to accept Michael's application.Lewis, Michael (September 24, 2006). "The Ballad of Big Mike". The New York Times Magazine . Retrieved 15 December 2009.
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