Are you blind sided The Blind Side may have been a lie?

(raises hand) There's at least one more.

 

We are going to need the Michael Cross in cutoffs gif.

 

Brad Renfro would have been good in it, had he not died the year before.

 

I read the book before seeing the movie. Michael Lewis wrote the book, and had a pre-existing relationship with Sean Tuohy, so take that fwiw - still, I figure this is all about money - Oher's "new family" or whomever thinks he should have gotten a bigger chunk of the Blind Side (and he probably should have). Though he's supposed to have a net worth of $16m. Does he have that without the Tuouhy's intervention, academic support, etc.? Unless the "origin story" of the relationship - legal status aside - is bogus. They could have had good hearts and taken him in, but when they learned about his football potential, they became especially interested in his future. The lack of input from Oher in the book really left me with a lot of questions. I don't know if he was quoted in it - directly - even six times in the whole thing.

 

Wasn’t the book written when he was still at Ole Miss and the NCAA would swing Thor’s hammer down on any athlete who looked remotely close to profiting off sportsball prowess?

 

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Well Lewis was a very close friend of Touhy from childhood IIRC (I read the book and loved it and how it examined LTs in the NFL).

Criticizing Oher for timing is a red herring; if the facts are true, you tell the kid you love him, you're going to adopt him, then you grab 2.5% of profits and give him zero?? Horrible.

 

Hasn't Oher always said much of the movie was bullshit?

 

At least as of a couple years ago, Oher was already bristling as some of the characterizations of him in the movie. Like, he knew how to play football. But even in this article, the word "adoption" is still used. If it turns out the Tuohys didn't actually adopt him, well, they're likely going to be in some shit, since they've been using their association with Oher to present day for business purposes.

Ravens' Michael Oher tells his side in memoir - USATODAY.com

re: Making money off the movie, though, with how Hollywood accounting works, I doubt any of them actually made that much money off of it. According to the ESPN story, they got points off the gross net, which is typically pretty easy to never pay out on. Famously, "Men in Black" continues to lose $5m per year.

 

so now we know who lives where it never rains on the weekends and tnt isn't available on the local cable system

 

tbf I think Bill Simmons is the only person still watching movies on TNT.

 

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