Michael Lewis‘s “The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game” (’06) is partly about how Michael Oher, an under-educated offensive tackle who was nurtured and purportedly adopted by Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy. He gradually went on to become a football star, first in college and then with the NFL for eight years.
Lewis’s book was adapted into a 2009 film, John Lee Hancock‘s The Blind Side. The movie was hugely successful at the box-office, and Sandra Bullock wound up winning a Best Actress Oscar for her performance as Lee Anne.
That was 15 years ago, however, and things have changed. White people are now regarded with suspicion and distrust by almost everyone (including white liberals!), and Oher, now 37 and retired from pro football, has joined the accusational chorus.
Oher has stated in an 8.14 Shelby County court filing that the Tuohys “did not, in fact, adopt him and lied about doing so in order to enrich themselves.”
ESPN’s Michael Fletcher: “[Oher] alleges that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, who took Oher into their home as a high school student, never adopted him. Instead, less than three months after Oher turned 18 in 2004, the petition says, the couple tricked him into signing a document making them his conservators, which gave them legal authority to make business deals in his name.
“The petition further alleges that the Tuohys used their power as conservators to strike a deal that paid them and their two birth children millions of dollars in royalties from an Oscar-winning film that earned more than $300 million, while Oher got nothing for a story ‘that would not have existed without him.'”
In other words the Tuohys are shifty and slippery, baby, and Oher wants a cut of that money, honey.
In 2017 the 31-year-old Oher was “released” from The Carolina Panthers — his last pro-football gig. Six years later he’s after some of that Tuohy dough. Oher was probably talked into this by some smart attorney. Oher and the Tuohys will doubtless end up settling.
I’m sure there’s absolutely no other side to this story, and that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy are nothing but reprehensible serpents and con artists
