I liked both equally, but for very different reasons.Īs any preview of the movie shows, The Blind Side, is about family, hope, and overcoming obstacles. The book, however, is very much a sports book about sports and the technical development of the game of football. The movie is, like most inspirational sports movies, a movie not really about sports at all but something bigger than just a game. Yes, the details about Michael Oher - an abandoned black kid adopted by the wealthy, white, Tuohy family who develops an incredible talent for one of the most difficult positions in football - are similar, but what the two pieces are really about is quite different. The legs feed the wolf.” So of course I went and saw The Blind Side in theaters, then grabbed a copy of the book to read when I was done.Ĭomparing the two, it struck me how different they are despite the fact that they both use the same set of facts to tell a story. I’m also a major fan of the inspirational sports movie - I could watch Remember the Titans or Miracle every day and still get excited when the Titans do their opening dance or Kurt Russell yells, “The legs feed the wolf, gentlemen. I’m no expert, but I can hold my own when football chat comes up. It was a way for us to be close, and through watching games and listening to his commentary I managed to pick up quite a bit about the sport. I think it comes from all the years I spent talking with my dad while strategized his picks for his fantasy football leagues.
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