Blind Side: A Fake Dating Sports Romance (Red Zone Rivals)

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Michael has a million reasons to be angry, bitter and seriously cynical. He is none of those things. Instead, he’s the go-with-the-flow guy. Crashing on the right floor, at the right time led to Michael attending the elite Briarcrest. A world away from the public schools he had barely bothered with. A new legal claim from Michael Oher, the former NFL player and subject of hit book and film “The Blind Side,” that the Tuohy family never actually adopted him has caused a stir. Lewis correctly raises the questions, though he had little choice after the NCAA launched an investigation into the subject. 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. Oher was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in the first-round of the 2009 draft, and he won a Super Bowl with the team in February 2013 in New Orleans, where Sean Tuohy and Blind Side author Lewis are from. He also played for the Carolina Panthers and Tennessee Titans.

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Oher’s lawyer, J Gerard Stranch IV, told ESPN on Monday that his client did not examine the conservatorship until he retired from the NFL in 2016. A lawyer eventually told him that documents indicated he had never been adopted by the Tuohys. Oher goes onto to excel in academics and become a star football player, garnering him a number of football scholarships and eventually landing him a spot on the Baltimore Ravens. Nicole Sperling and Amy Kaufman, Oscars change rule for best-picture race, Los Angeles Times, June 16, 2011, accessed February 4, 2014. People look at me, and they take things away from me because of a movie,” Oher told ESPN in 2015. “They don’t really see the skills and the kind of player I am.” He told Jim Rome, “You don’t need to have someone come save you and rescue you to be successful." Oher also said the movie's central plot – that he was adopted — is inaccurate

The football part of this book was tolerable, even good, and it made me appreciate the offensive line and football strategy from a different perspective. However, that’s wrapped up in an ambiguous story that seems to imply that rich white people adopting a kid from the inner city and guiding him into their alma mater is funny and charming. Yes. Although it's not focused on in the movie, Michael Oher's basketball talent made him runner-up high school Player of the Year in Tennessee. The King of Hollywood. Filmmakers love Michael Lewis’s books—in the last ten years, three of them ( The Blind Side, Moneyball, and The Big Short) have been made into successful, Academy Award-nominated films. This became boring after a while; no one’s teenage years are that interesting (trust me on this, teenagers). Many of these details are pointless, really, to the overall narrative, which confusingly does not follow a straightforward timeline and made it hard to follow. There are also long chapters on how the role of defensive linemen was changing pro football, but these could have been shorter and the guts more directly related to Oher himself. After seeing the movie I was curious about the book and though I'm not a big football fan decided to give it a read.

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Swartzendruber, Jay (November 17, 2010). "Believers Walk the Talk in The Blind Side". Crosswalk.com . Retrieved March 8, 2010. But it's tedious and in the end it's hard to argue it's important. There's no real comparison to other ways the game has evolved.Lewis uses the facts of Oher's life parallel with notable changes in the National Football League (NFL). Though these events did not occur simultaneously, Lewis connects them as if they were meant to go hand in hand. And in some ways, maybe they were. A little light on the human side of the story and heavy on the football- which I found a bit difficult to follow! It was still a powerful story, but I definitely preferred the movie. References to the use of ketchup bottles being my knowledge of the game — a scene many will remember from the movie — would make many of the teams hesitant," he continued. The movie also courted controversy due to accusations of white saviorism