Looks like someone is getting Blind Sided
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There's no winners in this...just lots of laughter
I feel so vindicated for telling people that the movie was utter horseshit. Although I never watched it, from what I understand is they portray it as he had no football ability until Leann taught him how to block.
This is my article of all time.
I've told my non MSU friends for years that olemiss people are incapable of doing good, and this whole thing was a farce. It's taken 14 years to be proven right but I'll take it!
I've told my non MSU friends for years that olemiss people are incapable of doing good, and this whole thing was a farce. It's taken 14 years to be proven right but I'll take it!
Wait, someone from the Univ of Northern MS lying to a recruit so that it will enrich their life and school? Are you sure, that can't be the truth?**
Having lived all over the country, every time since that movie came out that I would mention being from Mississippi someone would say oh Ole Miss, like the Blind Side. I would then rant about the farce that it was and is. I have never felt more vindicated than today.
You really do hate to see it.
We're all laughing, rightfully so, but this is really truly sad for Oher. I have an adopted child. I could not imagine being an adopted child like him and then learning they pretty much screwed him just for money.
They obviously brought him into their home and provided and helped raised him, but not adopting and going the route of conservatorship is truly sick by the Tuohy's. Sad, sick people.
They obviously brought him into their home and provided and helped raised him, but not adopting and going the route of conservatorship is truly sick by the Tuohy's. Sad, sick people.
I just thought of something... Does this mean that Sandra Bullock has to give her Oscar back?
I believe the word is "vacated".I just thought of something... Does this mean that Sandra Bullock has to give her Oscar back?
Who would have thought that college football boosters "adopting" one kid that turned out to be an All-American and 1st round draft pick wasn't the feel-good story we were sold?
I had always heard that the "Blind Side" story was utter BS. Looks like that may have been correct.
She won it on the field. That's all that matters.I believe the word is "vacated".
Brandon Walker's all over this.
Doubt they'll ever be able to prove he was 'tricked'. I highly doubt that. I'd be surprised if he wasn't legally adopted.
Looks like where they messed up was not paying him the money due him for the movie. And I don't know if he can legally get mad about that, but if they actually did pay the other kids and not him, whew.....that's a bad look.
Looks like where they messed up was not paying him the money due him for the movie. And I don't know if he can legally get mad about that, but if they actually did pay the other kids and not him, whew.....that's a bad look.
Of course, we were all right the whole time. Sad thing is nobody cares.
From the ESPN article:
The 14-page petition, filed in Shelby County, Tennessee, probate court, alleges that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, who took Oher into their home as a high school student, never adopted him. Instead, less than three months after Oher turned 18 in 2004, the petition says, the couple tricked him into signing a document making them his conservators, which gave them legal authority to make business deals in his name.
I always told friends to watch the movie and replace Ole Miss with their team's biggest rival. If the Tuohys were Auburn boosters, Finebaum and the Bama fanbase would have killed the movie before it got greenlit.
That's Oher's lawsuit (or whatever this is), not official records. Again, I can't imagine they didn't finalized the legal adoption. They couldn't have carried out all of these deals without doing that, unless they falsified documents, and that's getting a little far-fetched. But.....maybe?
Never underestimate the scumminess of Rebel boosters.
Well, if you're right, that will be easy to prove.
And as far as how they did what they did without adopting him, that is what the conservatorship was for.
They never wanted to adopt him. They wanted to exploit him.
1) I get the feeling that all of Oher's earnings are just sitting in a regular bank account, not even earning interest.
2) to bend all the way backwards in giving the benefit of the doubt, it may be that officially adopting someone over 18 is practically impossible. The typical process involves a youth court and the AG. For an adult, they may just not care and ignore any petition they receive. There may be some other avenue to getting it in front of a judge, or there may not. Or maybe that just takes time, and they needed legal authorization in his name quickly to make money off him.
Brandon Walker is taking a victory lap on Twitter. I can’t wait for him to remember who Oher high school coach was. Maybe someone needs to remind him.
I'm no lawyer, but the article made it sound like the conservatorship enabled them to make the deals.
I tried telling the people I ran with then that it had to be BS if Ole Miss was involved with a giant football player who just happened to become an all-star player. They looked at me and said I was speculating because it was Ole Miss, and they loved the movie and Sandra Bullock's performance. I don't see much of those folks anymore, but I wonder what they feel now that it's been proven to be BS.
They didn't say anything about it being a white knight story either.
They didn't say anything about it being a white knight story either.
SJ Tuohy is now running UCF’s NIL. Given his family’s history, they may want to check into where the money is going
I thought this was well known. They owned his life story in the movie rights and all the residuals.
Greed is ugly ugly when it goes down like this. Just awful.
It was known by many. Now it is known by everyone.
Why? Heath Ledger wasn’t really the Joker. People win Oscars for fiction and playing fake people all of the time.I just thought of something... Does this mean that Sandra Bullock has to give her Oscar back?
He absolutely knows. There is no question why Freeze was hired as Recruiting Coordinator 20 days after Football Precious signed his NLI.
LOL,, the Tuouy kids smiles in that scene become outright devious when you know that he is actually signing his royalties over to them.