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

The Russians won 7-1 and then we lost to Sweden in the silver medal game. Mike Eruzione has been selling insurance in Massachusetts for 42 years. Al Michaels is calling Triple-A baseball in the midwest.

 

Do you believe in mediocrity? Yeah, I guess so!

 

Can people still call him “Big” and “Uncle”?

 

I guess I just don't know where you are coming from QT. Oher could have left the home at any time and gone back to his former living situation. He didn't. The Tuohys had no legal relationship with him until Ole Miss was recruiting him. Did they steer him to Ole Miss? Probably. But its just as likely they did so because it was the closest to his home, their kid already went there, and they had a long relationship to the school - which probably isn't a bad place to send a kid who had a haphazard upbringing without a family structure, not to mention extremely limited academic skills that were improved enough via a private tutor to get into Ole Miss - and eventually earned him a degree from the school.

 

But not all of them. I can see why DanOregon is wondering about some of this stuff. It seems both sides are being disingenuous to some extent, and neither is looking particularly good right now. Because what this ruins is not just a movie; it's a shame that what did likely start out as a true real-life feel-good story, with good intentions and high hopes, and help where help was needed, has, in fact, become mostly about money at this point.

I wonder what happened between Oher and the Tuohys, recently, to cause this total breakdown, and the willingness on Oher's part, to go completely public with such personal and damning details against those who did, in fact, support him in getting through school and into college, overcoming disadvantages of poverty to do it and developing his athletic talent to the extent that he could make it in the NFL and ever have a movie made about him at all.

My own feeling is that the real problem, at heart, must be the adoption issue, and Oher's hurt regarding it. But is he just now finding out he wasn't actually adopted, when apparently he was told he would be, or, at least, it was his understanding that he would be? I find that hard to believe, whether he found it out from the Tuohys (apparently not), an attorney, or just finally figured it out on his own.

Regardless of what ended up happening with a conservatorship, the lack of an adoption would be more devastating for a child or young man who hoped/thought about that after having lived with a family, been cared for and supported by them, and after going through all the highs and lows of life with them.

 

This is the thing. There clearly was give-and-take in this relationship, with both sides, probably, taking advantage of the other, for certain things, at certain times. But, you know what? That's actually what families do. Turning their relationship into something totally ugly, when it probably wasn't actually that, is not the way to go here, except, of course, maybe, with regard to greed...and money.

 

Imagine being coached in high school by Hugh Freeze and college by Ed Orgeron and neither are close to being the most dysfunctional adult relationship of your young life.

 

I am not at all shocked by your incredulity.

 

When all is said and done we may find that what the Tuohys did was at least as bad and maybe worse than what Oher's alleged. My only beef is how folks here are just so goddamn certain that what he's alleged is exactly what happened.

 

I’m not 100% certain, but if I’m wrong I’ll buy Sean Tuohy a chalupa.

 

Yeah, my parents took me to see it when I was a kid, I was disappointed to find out that it was about a bunch of guys who talked funny running on a beach instead of a bunch of burning chariots.

 

Is nothing sacred when it comes to sports films? I supposed next, we’ll find out that the Junction Boys had a lousy season.