Orgeron on the big screen?...

dawgstudent

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Speaking of which, a while back a buddy and I had wondered about who Hollywood would get to play Orgeron in the movie about Ole Miss offensive lineman Michael Oher. Turns out, Orgeron is going to play the role himself. Next week he's slated to go to Atlanta to do his scene with Sandra Bullock, the star of the movie.

"How amazing is that?" he said as he flipped over a copy of the movie script that had been FedExed to him.

It is pretty surreal. Now it's not like he's playing Hamlet, but it's still quite a thought to imagine some Hollywood type, going, 'OK, OK, good, but now, do it with more feeling.'

This brings back images of an ESPN photo shoot we did with Orgeron down in Mississippi a couple of years ago. It was pretty entertaining to see the interaction between he and the freelance photographers that came in from New York. The photogs weren't exactly football fans, but Orgeron seemed to connect with them. Anyhow, it was all pretty playful but still totally bizarre, and ended up with the camera guys running 40 yard-dashes in the Ole Miss indoor practice facility while an assistant timed them.

-Bruce Feldman
 

BigMotherTucker

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dawgstudent said:
Speaking of which, a while back a buddy and I had wondered about who Hollywood would get to play Orgeron in the movie about Ole Miss offensive lineman Michael Oher. Turns out, Orgeron is going to play the role himself. Next week he's slated to go to Atlanta to do his scene with Sandra Bullock, the star of the movie.

"How amazing is that?" he said as he flipped over a copy of the movie script that had been FedExed to him.

It is pretty surreal. Now it's not like he's playing Hamlet, but it's still quite a thought to imagine some Hollywood type, going, 'OK, OK, good, but now, do it with more feeling.'

This brings back images of an ESPN photo shoot we did with Orgeron down in Mississippi a couple of years ago. It was pretty entertaining to see the interaction between he and the freelance photographers that came in from New York. The photogs weren't exactly football fans, but Orgeron seemed to connect with them. Anyhow, it was all pretty playful but still totally bizarre, and ended up with the camera guys running 40 yard-dashes in the Ole Miss indoor practice facility while an assistant timed them.

-Bruce Feldman

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Maroon Eagle

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dawgstudent said:
Speaking of which, a while back a buddy and I had wondered about who Hollywood would get to play Orgeron in the movie about Ole Miss offensive lineman Michael Oher. Turns out, Orgeron is going to play the role himself. Next week he's slated to go to Atlanta to do his scene with Sandra Bullock, the star of the movie.

"How amazing is that?" he said as he flipped over a copy of the movie script that had been FedExed to him.

It is pretty surreal. Now it's not like he's playing Hamlet, but it's still quite a thought to imagine some Hollywood type, going, 'OK, OK, good, but now, do it with more feeling.'

This brings back images of an ESPN photo shoot we did with Orgeron down in Mississippi a couple of years ago. It was pretty entertaining to see the interaction between he and the freelance photographers that came in from New York. The photogs weren't exactly football fans, but Orgeron seemed to connect with them. Anyhow, it was all pretty playful but still totally bizarre, and ended up with the camera guys running 40 yard-dashes in the Ole Miss indoor practice facility while an assistant timed them.

-Bruce Feldman
 

Coach33.sixpack

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Fake Southern accents. Flannel sleeveless shirts. Trailer park trash with 2 teeth. Hollywood usually sets it up about like that.
 
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COACH O TO TURN MOVIE INTO GREATEST FILM EVER MADE
The Blind Side was probably headed for a PG-13 before this, but once you get Ed Orgeron in a room with Sandra Bullock and say the words "ACTION!", there's really no keeping it from crossing over into NC-17. Furniture will be smashed. Available foodstuffs will be used for unspeakable acts. Cajun butter will be employed. If you can imagine the Incredible Hulk in musth on a Viagra-spiked vacation to the beaches of hell, you may come close to approximating what will be captured on film that night-if the equipment doesn't melt from the very sight of so much animal lust poured into a single fragile lens. (And it will, if it's not eaten first.)
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Bdog9090

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Ppl on the screen will be pouring out sweat. Either hollywood figures there are no air conditioners in MS or we are just closer to the sun than the rest of the country.
 

Agentdog

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Incredulous! Can not wait for more heart warming, goodwill stories to come out about the under priviledge that happen to play football at OM.