The Blind Side: The Evolution of a Game
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- ISBN13: 9780307715067
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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In football, as in life, the value we place on people changes with the rules of the games they play.
When we first meet the young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving tale, 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. And he has no serious experience playing organized football.
What changes? He takes up football, and school, after a rich, Evangelical, Republican family tree plucks him from the mean streets. Their like is the first fantastic force that alters the world’s perception of the boy, whom they adopt. The second force is the evolution of professional football itself.
In The Blind Side, Lewis shows us a largely unanalyzed but inexorable trend in football effective its way down from the pros to the high school game, where it collides with the life of a single young man to produce a narrative of fantastic and surprising power.
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I saw the leader interviewed by Barry Kibrick on the local community college television station. They disgussed the issue of the prohibition against organizations refining young potential college-ball recruits with gifts and aid and ["perhaps"] whether this was the motivation in adopting a child from the inner city, it was left unclear, of course BECAUSE IT WOULD BE A MONSTROUS THING TO ADOPT A CHILD SPECIFICALLY TO SERVE YOUR ALMA-MATERS FOOTBALL TEAM!!! This issue is deftly dealt with as an unconfronted secondary matter which really doesn’t require that much attention–RIGHT!? This book delibrately avoids a hard look at a real manifestation of SLAVE CULTURE! The act itself renders secondary the childs life to a brief time on a college football team. It is adage that it is less vital that a child has a history that is his own, that of his parents and grand parents, and not the history of the rich people who lived across town and were so proud of their third rate college team they just had to have a player–some kind of pet-mascot hybrid whose training program and life perspective and system of values can be molded in any way to suit that end enforcable by law–like a slave. Why? Because in their heart of hearts they judge in slavery. Like Milton Freidman says in “Capitalism and Freedom,” [Robinson Crusoe, lacking his man Friday is not free, because he must fend for his own survival.] It becomes clearer as your read what Freidman means by this… it isn’t the freedom of the wage earner that is of value protecting, nor persons tied to a salary, or even the freedoms of persons with a ounce of wealth, but persons who’ve really made freedom like say in the tens and hundreds of millions of dollars, or even better, billions of dollars worth of wealth. What Freidman shares with most additional economists in this regard is this… he chooses to empathize with persons most likely to offer him a career and not persons who comprise the bulk of humanity. Like this book, “The Blind Side,” which acknowldges social strife in the inner city just so far as it hinders a couple of ghoulish gnomes and the recruiting hinderances of their favorite college team! Screw this book, screw Michael Lewis and Barry Kibrick!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I wouldn’t know if this is a excellent product or not because it was never shipped to me. I ordered it six weeks ago and have heard nothing from either amazon or the seller.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The premise of the store is appealing. How did left tackle become one of the most vital positions in football? The first half of the book does a honest job of walking through the reasons. (West Coast offense, LT, etc.)
Sorry to say, at that point Lewis runs out of things to write about, so he starts talking about Michael Oher, an O Lineman at Ole Miss. Oher’s tale is intersting, but it is too early to tell. He is a “superstar” but only a sophomore. I also reflect that Lewis overdoes how fantastic Oher already is.
I also don’t really know what Oher’s tale really had to do with the original premise of the book. Is Lewis adage that because left tackles now make millions, Oher wants to be one? I would reflect that if Oher had come around in the 70s people would still have thought of him as a football player. Last time I checked lineman were huge and strong (and quick) in that era too.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
This book, although well-written, absolutely turns my stomach. The Touhy’s should not be looked to for inspiration, and their “acts of kindness” have many ulterior motivations. Yes, Oher will have a brighter future because of the family tree, but let’s not overlook the cost. Leigh Anne is proud that she taught Michael that he should shop at “Tiffany’s”, and that this is a real life education, is a sad commentary on her twisted world view. Is Michael a toy, a sociology conduct experiment, a name she can use to shock her Southern friends?? Sean is proud that Michael gets into his alma mater – yet, the kid can’t even read. Oh, that’s right, he got straight A’s by Sean’s manipulation of the system, gets confirmed learning disabled(what joy Sean must have felt), and this makes him qualified to play football . . . oops, I mean go to college. What if Michael wasn’t 6′5” and built to play the game? Would they take him in? What a disgrace this family tree is. Also, is this the “Christian way” of doing things?
The insight into the development of the left tackle is very appealing, on the additional hand. Still, I couldn’t get around the distasteful family tree, with their fake Christian values, ostentacious ways, and ulterior motives. And, mind you, Michael Lewis is a excellent friend of Sean Touhy’s, and likely gives an extremely biased view of them. I don’t plot of reading another of Lewis’ books again.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
While I was browsing at a book store I did a quick flip through of this book, I only read the part about Lawrence Taylor and the history and importance of the left tackle and basically got it into my head that the rest of the book was going to be like that. I recently bought the book and was dissapointed to see that most of the book was about the real life tale of Michael Oher.
The tale of Michael Oher I thought was a very nice tale but didn’t really capture my imagination. It seemed a bit cliche even though it was right tale and didn’t really have anything that really touched me. I thought at the very least it was going to detail how Oher learned to be a offensive tackle (to in essence connect his tale to the left tackle history) but it really didn’t and was more of a human interest tale.
The Tuhoys generosity is inspiring but the reason I didn’t embrace the tale is because I felt that Michael Oher was not really a sympathetic character (even with his sad childhood). I don’t know why this boy captured Leigh Anne’s heart besides being pityable. He didn’t do anything to charming or heartwarming he was just kinda at the right place at the right time. What made him so special (besides being huge) that she adopted him but not some additional poor black teen? I don’t get it. Also I’m a relativley shy person myself so I know being silent and all but I just couldn’t tell to how aloof Michael Oher was. I mean if some rich white lady decides to buy me new clothes and then adopts me and place me in her will I’d be thanking her every 5 seconds but Michael doesn’t show much gratitude. The thing I kept thinking is how lucky Michael Oher is that no only on top of the inheritance he will be getting he will also have his NFL earnings.
Perhaps I’m being too harsh on Michael Oher but that’s just the way I feel.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5