Michael Oher’s former coach urges him to IMMEDIATELY work things out with the Tuohy family

Oher and the Tuohy family were the subject of the 2009 film The Blind Side.


Michael Oher’s former coach urges him to IMMEDIATELY work things out with the Tuohy family

Hugh Freeze (L - USA Today) and Michael Oher with the Tuohy family (R - BBC)

Former NFL star Michael Oher was the subject of the Oscar-winning film The Blind Side. It depicted the defensive tackle’s final year of high school and first year of college. On August 14, Oher filed a lawsuit against the real-life Tuohy family claiming that the story was a fabrication and that the family never really adopted him and tricked him into signing a conservatorship when he was 18.

Since then, the author of the book ‘The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game’, on which the film was based, has defended the family against the accusations. And now, the former coach of Oher, Hugh Freeze, has also urged the former NFL player to work things out with the Tuohy family and said that the “family totally took him in” as a teenager.

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“I know this, if Michael Oher called Sean right now and said, ‘Let’s work this thing out,’ Sean and Leigh Anne would be there in a hurry to hug his neck and tell him he’s loved. I hope he feels that.” Freeze told Richard Silva of the Montgomery Advertiser. Oher played under Freeze at Briarcrest Christian School in Tennessee.

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Oher was drafted in the first round of the 2009 NFL Draft by the Baltimore Ravens and played eight seasons in the league. He won Super Bowl XLVII with the Ravens. He played for five seasons in Baltimore. He later spent a season with the Tennessee Titans and then went on to play for the Carolina Panthers, where he finished his career.

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Author of The Blind Side responds to Michael Oher’s lawsuit

Michael Lewis (L) and Michael Oher (R)
Michael Lewis (L – via San Francisco Chronicle) and Michael Oher (R – NBC News)

Michael Oher filed a lawsuit against the Tuohy family, alleging that the family used him for money and hadn’t even adopted him. Oher was the subject of the 2009 film The Blind Side. The movie was based on Michael Lewis‘ book of the same name.

Lewis has come out in support of the Tuohy family and has denied Oher’s claims that the family made millions off of the film. “Everybody should be mad at the Hollywood studio system,” Lewis said in a recent interview with The Washington Post. “Michael Oher should join the writers strike. It’s outrageous how Hollywood accounting works, but the money is not in the Tuohys’ pockets.”

Lewis also wrote the book Moneyball, which was based on the Oakland Athletics GM Billy Beane and his revolutionary approach to getting value out of ordinary players, dubbed the Moneyball approach. The book was later dramatized in the 2011 film by the same.

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