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  • Sandra Bullock: Did ‘Blind Side’ Star Ruin Michael Oher’s Football Career?

    Sandra Bullock won an Academy Award for her role as Leigh Anne Toughy in The Blind Side, but Michael Oher, the football player upon whom the film was based claims she ruined his football career.

    During a recent interview with ESPN, Oher didn’t have anything good to say about Sandra Bullock or The Blind Side.

    “I’m not trying to prove anything,” he said. “People look at me, and they take things away from me because of a movie. They don’t really see the skills and the kind of player I am. That’s why I get downgraded so much, because of something off the field.”

    “This stuff, calling me a bust, people saying if I can play or not…that has nothing to do with football. It’s something else off the field. That’s why I don’t like that movie,” Michael Oher added.

    Oher got into a fight with defensive end Kony Ealy. He assumes the fight got more attention because he was involved.

    “Offensive linemen don’t get looked at,” Oher said. “Nobody is paying attention to the offensive line. But me? I’m getting watched for everything. I know what type of player I am. Everybody else that I know knows what type of player I am. So that kind of stuff doesn’t worry me.”

    It’s uncertain if Sandra Bullock has heard Michael Oher’s claim that she ruined his football career or not–but it would certainly be interesting to learn her thoughts on the matter.

    Sandra Bullock played the adoptive mother of Michael Oher in the film.

    Bullock appeared Tuesday at the Tiffany & Co.-sponsored Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards, held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in L.A.’s Century City neighborhood. She recalled her life as being a ‘sh*t-show’ a few years back. That ‘sh*t-show’ actually kicked off right after Sandra Bullock won her Academy Award for The Blind Side. That’s when she learned husband Jesse James on her, and that her life was about to take a huge about-face.

    Do you think Sandra Bullock is truly responsible for ruining Michael Oher’s football career or is he simply being a bit dramatic?

    Maybe he and Sandra Bullock should switch roles for a while?

  • Michael Oher Signs on with Tennessee Titans for $20 Million

    Michael Oher, subject of the book and movie The Blind Side, has signed on with the Tennessee Titans, leaving the Baltimore Ravens. Ian Rapport of the Rap Sheet and NFL.com tweeted the story specifying Oher would receive 20 million dollars with 9.5 million guaranteed.

    Oher’s life was the basis of the book and Oscar winning movie The Blind Side. According to the publisher’s website, the book detailed not only the rise of Oher as one of a drug addicted mother’s thirteen children to professional football player, but also his impact on the way the game is played itself.

    A Tennessee native, Oher was originally headed to the Oakland Raiders after his rookie contract with the Baltimore Ravens expired, but as he told the Tennessean: “I hung out with the (Titans) coaches for two days, I just started getting a good vibe that I was right down the street from home. And just being back in the South, I’m a Southern guy, so it made it a lot a little easier. So as it was coming time for me to (leave for the airport), I just started telling myself, `I can’t leave, I can’t leave.’ So I’m glad we got something done.”

    On Friday afternoon, Oher tweeted both a thank you message to the Baltimore Ravens and words of excitement upon joining the Titians, generating thousands of re-tweets and favorites. The Tennessee Titans then tweeted a picture of Oher signing his contract to make the deal official:

    According to the official Baltimore Ravens website, Oher has been intrumental in helping the team score the most points in franchise history and the second-most total yards in team history. He had been with the team since 2009.

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