Michael Jerome Oher is a former American football offensive tackle. He played in the NFL for eight seasons, primarily with the Baltimore Ravens. He also played for the Tennessee Titans and Carolina Panthers. His life through his final year of high school and first year of college is one of the subjects of Michael Lewis’ 2006 book, The Blind Side. His story was featured in the Academy Award-winning 2009 film The Blind side.
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Michael Jerome Oher (born May 28, 1986) is a former American football offensive tackle. He played in the NFL for eight seasons, primarily with the Baltimore Ravens. He also played for the Tennessee Titans and Carolina Panthers. Oher’s life through his final year of high school and first year of college is one of the subjects of Michael Lewis’ 2006 book, The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game. His story was featured in the Academy Award-winning 2009 film The Blind side. He was one of 12 children of Denise Oher and Michael Jerome Williams. His mother suffered from alcoholism and crack cocaine addiction, and his father was frequently in prison. He repeated first and second grades, and attended eleven schools during his first nine years as a student. In 2004, Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy, a couple with a daughter and son attending Briarcrest, allowed Oher to live with them and eventually adopted him. The family began tending to his needs after becoming familiar with his difficult childhood. They also hired a tutor for him, who worked with him for 20 hours per week.
He earned two letters each in track and basketball, earning All-State honors by helping lead the basketball team to a 27–6 record, winning the district championship as a senior. At the conclusion of his senior season, Oher participated in the 2005 U.S. Army All-American Bowl. Though he received scholarship offers from Tennessee, LSU, Alabama, Auburn, and South Carolina, he ultimately decided to play for Ed Orgeron at the University of Mississippi. His decision to play on the Ole Miss Rebels football team sparked an investigation by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) The NCAA did not close its case on its suspicions of collusion of the school and the fact that Ole Miss hired Noel Mazzone twenty days after Oher signed his letter of intent. However, it ruled that no Ole Miss committed any violations in its recruitment of Oher as a result of his preexisting relationship with the school’s offensive coordinator Noel Mazazzone. The first issue of the first issue was that Oher did not meet requirements for the Division I scholarship at Ole Miss.
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