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The Sunday Read: ‘The Blind Side’ Made Him Famous. But He Has a Different Story to Tell.

The Sunday Read: ‘The Blind Side’ Made Him Famous. But He Has a Different Story to Tell.

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It was an overcast Monday afternoon in late April, and Michael
Oher, the former football player whose high school years were
dramatized in the movie “The Blind Side,” was driving Michael
Sokolove on a tour through a forlorn-looking stretch of Memphis
and past some of the landmarks of his childhood.

In the movie, Oher moves into the home of the wealthy white
couple Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy. They take him shopping for
clothes, help him obtain a driver’s license, buy him a pickup
truck and arrange for tutoring that helps improve his grades and
makes him eligible to play college football. In real life, Oher
went on to play eight seasons as a starting offensive tackle in
the N.F.L. and won a Super Bowl with the Baltimore Ravens.

Now, Oher is suing the Tuohys, claiming that they have exploited
him by using his name, image and likeness to promote speaking
engagements that have earned them roughly $8 million over the
last two decades — and by repeatedly saying that they adopted him
when they never did.

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