My Side of The Blind Side

I took a look at the Oscar-winning film, The Blind Side, yesterday.  And I see why so many people love it.  It was one of those family-oriented, heartfelt films that anyone of all ages can enjoy.  It had that basic formula that all the sports films have about down-and-out athletes who want to make it.  You know that formula...

• People around them don’t think they have the talent to make it
• They have the talent but no one has given them a chance
•  In the end they beat the odds and surprise everyone
  

Pretty standard.

The movie is the story of the Baltimore Ravens’ offensive left tackle, Micheal Oher.  As a child in Memphis, Tennessee he grew up in the projects as the son of a drug-addicted mother and had little to no care being shuffled around from one foster home to another while also spending some time homeless on the streets.  This would all change for him one day due to an older guy in Oher’s neighborhood, ‘Big Tony’ Hamilton, who let him sleep on the couch occasionally.  In the movie 'Big Tony' convinces the football coach of a private school to admit Michael Oher in along with his own son.  And so the story began...