Whitey Guccione's Sportsnuggets: And Another Thing...

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Thursday, October 14, 2010

And Another Thing...

I'm not sure if I've mentioned this in WhiteyLand but in case I hadn't I might as well mention it now, I HATED The Blind Side! Hated it. Hated every audience-insulting piece of dialogue from it. Hated the vastly overrated performance of Sandra Bullock in it. Hated how completely patronizing it was to Michael Oher and his remarkable real life story. Most of all I hated the fact that jagoff-y Michael Lewis got credited with finding such a unique story that nobody else would have found, and wrote another bestseller.

Thankfully this article was posted today on Slate.com, that made me feel much better. It blows the lid off any notion that Michael Lewis found such a unique story. It does so by confirming something that I speculated about when I was watching the movie: Michael Oher is hardly the first disadvantaged black youth that was adopted and/or mentored by a white family who then went onto college and professional football. Some of the names that had nearly the exact same set of circumstances Oher did include (to name a few) :

O.C. Brown
Patrick Willis
Keith Bullock
Jeremy Maclin

Lewis for his part says "Maybe I stumbled onto it because it happens so often". He's correct, it does happen way more often than The Blind Side would lead you to believe. The only difference is, these other families don't try to sell their story to a book or movie which makes them look like the most kind and generous people in the world, let alone go out seeking any kind of recognition for it.

These families do it because they actually care about the athlete. Something truly unique indeed...