Anyone Who Thinks College Athletics Can't Save A Kid's Life...

[hatvol96]

He must really love Ole Miss to take a kid of another race into his home and raise him as his own son. I think his wife was a major factor in adopting him. She must love Ole Miss as well.

Remind me again where they met. Where was their daughter a cheerleader?

 

[kidbourbon]

This one has got to be better than the Moneyball movie, interesting read but I can't really figure out who the hell decided it would make for a good movie.

Yeah, generally movies centered around characters turn out better than those centered around statistics. I love Moneyball the book, but I had no idea they made a movie out of it. A movie which I will not be viewing.

 

[kidbourbon]

No, I'm saying anyone who thinks Tuohy's only motivation was altruism is terribly naive.

I liked Blind Side, and Michael Lewis tells a good story, but does anyone else think its a little shady that he waits until like the last page of the book to nonchalantly mention that him and Tuohy were childhood friends?

Shouldn't that helpful bit of information come a little bit earlier on in the book?

 

[bburger991]

If he was a skinny white kid who was wearing ripped up T Shirts and Shorts in the middle of winter, do you think that they would have stopped to pick him up and adopt him?

 

[hatvol96]

I liked Blind Side, and Michael Lewis tells a good story, but does anyone else think its a little shady that he waits until like the last page of the book to nonchalantly mention that him and Tuohy were childhood friends?

Shouldn't that helpful bit of information come a little bit earlier on in the book?

That didn't bother me that much. The story had to be spun the way it was to get the widespread acclaim it did. Lewis and Tuohy being friends just gave the writer the jump on being the one to write the book. I can't imagine anyone else would have written it much differently.

 

[hmanvolfan]

Remind me again where they met. Where was their daughter a cheerleader?

I'm just blind sided that humanity has become so callous.

 

[JSherm54]

The Blind Side > Moneyball