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It’s not that exciting tbh. One person (me) has facts and the other person has fee fees.
After reading a couple more articles, it's like most issues, the truth seems to be somewhere in the middle.
Family says a conservatorship was the only way he could play at Ole Miss. He says he thought he was adopted.
It's true the Tuohys didn't "need" the money but was altruism really their motivation? I don't know, I don't know them from squat. Overall, it's sad that a family situation as it were, is completely blown up at this point.
then they should have no problem lifting it 15 years after he left college
If this goes to trial, it should be no problem to prove or disprove whether the "family" got $ from the movie. Same for conservatorship. The family's 'Intent"? I'm not sure how difficult or easy it would be to prove that.
Yeah probably best to wait and hear more of the story. It's sad that he's not feeling like part of the family, but I find it difficult to assume that the family only helped a 16 year old because they knew he was going to the NFL and they would make a lot of money off a movie. Lot of foresight if you ask me. Even at 18 when the agreement was put in place. Doesn't sound like they got money off his NFL deal so we're really just talking about the movie. He should get paid off of that. Does the movie happen if they don't help him though?
I haven't seen a lot of the details on the background. So we'll see what comes out
I’m wary of believing anything from Sean or Leigh Anne Tuohy at this point. He said they had to do a conservatorship because you can’t adopt an 18-year old which is a straight up lie. It’s much easier to adopt an 18-year old in Tennessee than it is to get someone into a conservatorship
Here’s a timeline of events just to show how fast the Tuohys moved:
2004: Tuohys ask Michael to move in for his senior year in high school after he receives numerous scholarship offers from top CFB teams. During the year he is entered into a conservatorship. He ends the year as a 5-star for the 2005 class.
2006: The book about Oher’s life is published titled The Blindside: evolution of a game. Tuohys began negotiating a movie deal the same year.
2007: Movie deal is made with Fox
2009: The Blindside releases as a huge box office and at home sales success
Awfully fishy for them to take complete control of his financial decisions and just happen to release a book about him two years later and get a movie deal finalized three years after it started.
The kid was huge and athletic. Doesn’t take that much foresight. Does the movie happen if it’s not about the man in question?
Feels like if people simply read the article they’d be on Oher’s side
Here you go, big Dawg:
I believe I read yesterday that they had agreed to lift the conservatorship.
How benevolent!
I see you're buying the new narrative hook, line and sinker.
EDITED: Stop with the name calling
Over the course of this thread the pro-Tuohy side has gone from “Michael Oher is making it all up because he wants money” to “well ok they didn’t adopt him but a conservatorship is fine actually” to “They’re actually good people because they said they would end the conservatorship after being sued over it 19 years later” to finally “it’s all one big media conspiracy to distract you from what’s really going on”
just incredible
Getting spicy in here.
Not as spicy as the Tuohys afterlife is gonna be
Lmao yeah I saw this morning that he was already an All-American HS player before they asked him to move in
When he tried to make the claim that the movie hurt his pro chances I checked out. I reserve judgment on this story.
He had pro teammates that thought he wouldn't be able to learn the playbook because of how he was portrayed in the movie.