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Blindside movie was a fraud

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  • pgjacksonpgjackson Posts: 18,951 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited August 2023

    Should be pretty easy to figure out who made how much money off of all this. Mike assumes a lot of money was made and not given to him. The Tuohy's said there wasn't. That will be easy to prove. The part about how he was portrayed....take that issue up with the movie producers. Pretty sure the Touhy's had no control over that. Hollywood is famous for just making stuff up (don't let the truth get in the way of a good story).

    If the conservatorship persisted till just recently, wouldn't the Touhy's have had control over Mike's NFL contracts and all endorsement deals? Here's a definition of conservatorship "conservatorship is the appointment of a guardian or a protector by a judge to manage the financial affairs and/or daily life of another person" I assume the NFL would not be able to sign a contract with Mike without their consent and approval. I am reserving judgement, but I have a feeling Mike is going to end up looking bad in this.

  • KaseyKasey Posts: 29,806 mod

    Conservatorship instead of adoption means he doesn’t get to inherit their wealth either.

  • YaleDawgYaleDawg Posts: 7,303 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    It is pretty funny watching you flail about trying to spin a narrative because the facts don’t support your uninformed bias. Let’s one again go through your points and how bad they are as well as the facts and questions of the lawsuit:

    1. I answered your simple question about the conservatorship in the first response. You just pretended I didn’t because it was the best you had.
    2. One of the central claims of the lawsuit is the great lengths the Tuohys went to the portray their conservatorship over Oher as an adoption deceiving both Oher and the general public.
    3. Oher discussing the conservatorship over a decade ago doesn’t end his case. He believed the Tuohys false claims that it would grant him a legal familial relationship. The Tuohys have promoted their supposed adoption for well over a decade now as well. He is just now finding out that it did not grant a familial relationship. That is the new revelation not that he was in a conservatorship at all. You’re essentially arguing that fraud in the inducement shouldn’t be a crime.
    4. To be placed under a conservatorship, you have to be incapacitated in some way to the point you cannot handle your own affairs. This typically involves some sort of mental disability which does not seem to be the case for Oher meaning the conservatorship was improper from the beginning.
    5. Tennessee requires Conservators to file annual financial reports on behalf of their wards. Oher and his attorneys have not seen these reports and believe the Tuohys have violated the conservatorship by not actually filing them.
    6. The same family friend that wrote the conservatorship for the Tuohys also acted as Oher’s agent for the movie while the rest of the Tuohys were represented by an actual agency. This is awfully strange for people that have claimed they love Oher like a son and adopted him into the family.
    7. The Tuohys have made very specific claims for why the put Oher into a conservatorship which just don’t check out. You can adopt someone over the age 18. It’s very easy to do in Tennessee. The NCAA wasn’t going to let Michael play if he wasn’t part of their family. Easy enough just adopt him since you love him so much. No reason he would need to relinquish his decision making abilities to play college football at Ole Miss. They’ve said they don’t make money off the film via royalties which is also not true.

    It is hard to believe that anyone could look at this situation and immediately side with the Tuohys and vilify Oher

  • YaleDawgYaleDawg Posts: 7,303 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Yeah I have a feeling that’s one of the other reasons they didn’t want to adopt.

  • YaleDawgYaleDawg Posts: 7,303 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
  • RSDawgRSDawg Posts: 1,812 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    The script of the movie, can be found here:

    The only time the word "adopt", "adopted" or "adoption" appears, is as follows:


  • RSDawgRSDawg Posts: 1,812 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Again, you fail to answer the basic question I asked which was do you have a link to the actual Petition? You see I am an actual f-ing lawyer for going on 20 years, though in Georgia not Tennessee. I ignore most of your drivel because it's not worth my time. You repeatedly dodge simple questions in favor of insults and your spin, so again DO YOU HAVE A LINK TO THE PETITION ITSELF? I would like to read the actual petition as opposed to your self aggrandizing prattle.

  • YaleDawgYaleDawg Posts: 7,303 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Well that certainly was easy. They also have a “charitable” organization that promotes adoption and have stated they adopted Oher in their speaking engagements

  • YaleDawgYaleDawg Posts: 7,303 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited August 2023

    lmao you literally only throw insults and half-baked arguments around and then say I’m the one throwing around drivel? I’ve dodged no questions.

  • RSDawgRSDawg Posts: 1,812 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited August 2023

    I don't see the word "adopt", "adopted", or "adoption" in your quote which is the word at issue. I see "guardian", and lo and behold here is Black's Law Dictionary's definition of "conservator":

    Also, Michael signed a 13 million dollar NFL contract in 2009. Are you telling me he couldn't have hired an attorney in 2011 to tell him what a conservator is? Assuming any of this misrepresentation stuff is true, which is a big IF, that sounds like 12 years of negligence on his part to just be bringing this up now. Since he clearly knew it was a conservatorship in 2011.

  • pgjacksonpgjackson Posts: 18,951 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
  • RSDawgRSDawg Posts: 1,812 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited August 2023

    So you have no link to the actual Petition? You haven't read it. All the insults and spin and basically you are going off of hearsay as to what the Petition says or doesn't say. SMH.

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