Very inspirational
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except in the real life story, Oher was already playing football when Touhy scouted him
fact is - there are thousands more needy kids in Memphis that could have been helped than a tackle that was "adopted" in the 10th grade to end up going to the family's alma mater
no matter how you try to frame it, it sure as hell is not honorable as helping someone who had nothing to offer in return
there are wonderful stories of pure, honest motives in helping others, and this is not one of them.
fact is - there are thousands more needy kids in Memphis that could have been helped than a tackle that was "adopted" in the 10th grade to end up going to the family's alma mater
no matter how you try to frame it, it sure as hell is not honorable as helping someone who had nothing to offer in return
there are wonderful stories of pure, honest motives in helping others, and this is not one of them.
Sounds like the story has caused you enough grief so as to conduct your own research into the matter.
In other words, you are a sad sack.
In other words, you are a sad sack.
and its pretty well known that he was not, in fact, playing football when Touhey found him and took him into his home.
He had seen him play basketball a couple of times, however.
As has been covered on every board...for every one of these for Ole Miss, you can name another for State.
Some people will never come to the realization that both of our athletics programs do shady stuff...and neither are blameless...and neither is worse or better (ethically) than the other.
He had seen him play basketball a couple of times, however.
As has been covered on every board...for every one of these for Ole Miss, you can name another for State.
Some people will never come to the realization that both of our athletics programs do shady stuff...and neither are blameless...and neither is worse or better (ethically) than the other.
We (Anonymous MSU message board posters) are going to make fun of this movie no matter what so please stop with all the posts about how 'factual' it is or how 'inspired' you are or how this kid only had one leg when the rich alumni found him and their love helped him to grow a second one. It doesn't matter.. it makes me gag and I even know Sean personally and like the guy and still the story for some reason causes people to exagerrate it on BOTH sides.. constantly.. even the Tuohy's have trouble remembering which story they are supposed to tell now, contractually. We are going to laugh at how they add overly dramatic b.s. to the movie to make the story better and then our Ole Miss neighbors are going to claim it really happened (no, she really did drive her 80K car into the memphis ghetto and confront some gang bangers...).. just ignore the threads and they will go away.. and they will come back when the movie comes out a lot of us will see it but ignore the threads on them again and let us have our fun and it will pass, quickly... Just talking about this story causes 15 people to register just to post and defend the savior of all Ole Miss football (Tuohy not Oher) and then it starts with full page threads and then Ole Miss Grad will have to move to another state to find an IP address that works so he can register again and geez.. none of us need any of this so just let us do what rivals are supposed to do and be jealous and rip the movie and the associated exposure to shreds without you guys coming on here to make it last longer...
We also expect you to do the exact same thing when the situations are reversed... and I know we don't have rich alumni that can afford to adopt football players but we DO have basketball recruits that can pass 36 hours in one summer and I don't see how the in hell that's not a movie yet..
We also expect you to do the exact same thing when the situations are reversed... and I know we don't have rich alumni that can afford to adopt football players but we DO have basketball recruits that can pass 36 hours in one summer and I don't see how the in hell that's not a movie yet..
but that could just be personal preference.
In most cases, the actor playing the real person is much more attractive. In this one case, I think LeighAnne can at least hold her own.
In most cases, the actor playing the real person is much more attractive. In this one case, I think LeighAnne can at least hold her own.
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