![]() ![]() Mostly the explanations of football strategy were very good and I followed most of it though I'm in no way a fan of the game. I was a bit daunted by depth of the coverage of the evolution of football in the book but I can't say I wasn't warned. Ole Miss angle as it was not emphasized in the film and knowing what I did of Ole Miss's history I was curious. The story is well written and Michael Oher's story is compelling. « lessĪfter seeing the movie I was curious about the book and though I'm not a big football fan decided to give it a read. Our protagonist turns out to be the priceless combination of size, speed, and agility necessary to guard the quarterback's greatest vulnerability: his blind side. The second force is the evolution of professional football itself into a game where the quarterback must be protected at any cost. Their love is the first great force that alters the world's perception of the boy, whom they adopt. What changes? He takes up football, and school, after a rich, Evangelical, Republican family plucks him from the mean streets. more » m, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or any of the things a child might learn in school such as, say, how to read or write. The young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story will one day be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football League. By the author of the bestselling Moneyball: in football, as in life, the value we place on people changes with the rules of the games they play. ![]()
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