Moneyball author gives interview

One day Michael Oher will be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football League. When we first meet him, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or how to read or write. He takes up football, and school, after a rich, white, evangelical family plucks him from the streets. Then two great forces alter Oher: the family's love and the evolution of professional football itself into a game in which the quarterback must be protected at any cost. Our protagonist becomes the priceless package of size, speed, and agility necessary to guard the quarterback's greatest vulnerability: his blind side. Michael Lewis is the author of several best-selling books, including Liar's Poker, based in part on his own experience working as an investment banker for Salomon Brothers.

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[akoijam1]

There's one asshole who doesn't like this video.

[spokmage]

Memorial Stadium! GO BEARS!!!

[wade2bosh]

white man...kills 90% of native americans and brings black men over as slaves.....later gets mad that they still exist in the land that is theirs (natives) or they created the wealth for (black slaves).

[PROJECTTROJANWARRIOR]

I just broke my friggin NECK. again. I dont think Ill make it to the NFL after all....

[wallbreaker2]

@PROJECTTROJANWARRIOR atta bub

[SuperBennyBen]

Good luck

[diggricp]

Racist White Folk! What won't they do to help the people they hate!

[enroth13]

You dumb POS. They did not ASK to be kidnapped and brought here. Oh man.

Do you really and truely believe the "Africans" wanted to come here?

[spankyelmojr]

It's a nice story, and I wish him well. But in the end...From Michael Jackson...to Michael Jordan...to Michael Oher...It Aint Nothing But A Song and Dance. People of African Descent Are Light Years Behind The Rest of the World. So much so...that it is not even discussed anymore. Africans/Blacks have contributed Nothing to The Greater Good...And they continue to be a Never Ending Burden, on a Global Scale. And their "progress" in America...has been one of INFESTATION...Not real progress.

[Buzzport20]

i read the book, its a hot book,michael oher is an animal nd for the kid who sed hes 5'9 nd tryin to go to the nfl at 180 nd play dl keep dreaming