Coaches from all over tell him that he’s going to be a great NFL player, and they offer him full room and board at their colleges. Michael begins to consider his college options in his senior year. In 2004, Michael’s senior year in high school, the Briarcrest football team wins the state championship of Tennessee. During Michael’s junior and senior years of high school, the Briarcrest football team does well because of his massive size and skillful maneuvering. The Tuohys decide to adopt Michael as their own child, which makes him closer with Collins and Sean Junior, the Tuohys’ two biological children. He becomes more outgoing and confident around his peers, where before he barely spoke at all. Leigh Anne decides to let Michael stay at her house because she thinks he lives with his mother in the inner-city.Īs Michael begins to distinguish himself as a football player, he receives scholarship offers from Division I colleges. He’s tall and strong, which makes him a great tackle on the field. Michael has a talent for playing basketball, but he is an even better football player. She bought food for him and drove him around when needed eventually, Sean Tuohy noticed this too-he’s very good with black students who come from poor backgrounds-and encouraged her efforts to help Michael feel accepted by the school community. However, Leigh Anne Tuohy noticed that Michael watched her son play basketball she recognized him from a neighborhood where she grew up, and knew how hard it was for people like Michael to find acceptance in places like Briarcrest. Michael also struggled academically, so he wasn’t allowed to play sports right away. He was shy and didn’t have many friends because he hadn’t grown up in the same environment as his classmates.

Michael Oher had a difficult time at Briarcrest Christian School. They wanted him there because they had lots of teachers and alumni who loved football. The school reluctantly agreed because Michael Oher seemed like he could be talented in football. In the early 2000s, when left tackles were being paid millions of dollars, a man named Big Tony tried to get his son and another student admitted into Briarcrest Christian Academy. Before then, all linemen were treated equally now they started paying high salaries to left tackles whose job it was to protect their quarterbacks from serious injuries like Theismann’s leg break. In response to this injury, coaches began recruiting big left tackles who could protect a quarterback’s blind side-the area on his left side where he couldn’t see anything while passing or running with the ball. Perhaps the defining moment of this era was when Lawrence Taylor “sacked” Joe Theismann in 1985. Rushers became bigger and faster, which meant that quarterbacks had less time to react or pass the ball. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, football changed dramatically.

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