https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/38190720/blind-side-subject-michael-oher-alleges-adoption-was-lie-family-took-all-film-proceeds

Oher claims they tricked him into signing some papers giving them the rights to make money off of him

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Who actually believed that story anyway? Does anyone really think the Ohers would have given 2 ****s about the kid if he wasn't a huge football player they could direct to their Alma Mater?

It has already been established that in the football field Oher wasn't some awkward charity case that needed a rich white lady to teach him how to play football. He was always a stud on the field.

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Tons of people, including on TA. If you can find it, go back and read the original film post from the Entertainment board. Anyone that expressed some skepticism was pretty well met with scorn and questioning on how someone could go thru life with such a pessimistic attitude or how that person couldn't believe such a "heartwarming story".

For whatever reason, people really wanted to believe the story.

BMX Bandit said:

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Who actually believed that story anyway?

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Everyone believes they adopted him.

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Of course I never thought to doubt whether they actually adopted Oher, my skepticism was with their motive and the plot line that told us he didn't know how to play football until some rich middle aged lady discovered he scored high on protective instincts on a personality test.

The adoption thing was about 4th or 5th in the line of BS from that film.

wait- so is they Call Me Sirr- a true story ......

The family's claim you can't adopt someone 18 or older is true in most states. While recent news on guardianships or conservatorships are mostly negative, I think the key in this one is whether it directly accepted money from Oher's success without putting it in trust and making it available only to Oher. The family already has stated the relatively paltry original proceeds were shared among the family members. That means the guardianship wasn't treated as a fiduciary responsibility by the family.

But luckily Oher overcame that and should be a very wealthy man today. The real issue is if this was ONLY done to not cause Ole Miss to be sanctioned by the NCAA. And therefore his only leverage is bringing that into question. At this point it mainly is a morality tale in how the NCAA prevented historically helping dirt poor players AT ALL.

Since this popped back up on this board, I went and looked for any new updates and came across this.

https://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/sports-news/we-now-know-exactly-how-much-michael-oher-and-the-tuohy-family-made-from-the-blind-side-royalties/

The studio that released the movie said how much the family got total, and man are these numbers off from the lawsuit.

""In fact, Alcon has paid approximately $767,000 to the talent agency that represents the Tuohy family and Michael Oher.

Doing a quick bit of math, after the talent agency took a 10% cut we are left with $690,000 split by the four members of the Tuohy family and Michael Oher. That's $138,000 per person, pre-tax."

I'm guessing people were using modern residuals when calculating this, because as the article points out, payouts to unknown people were a lot less kind back in the day.

The good thing about this story is that it should have a pretty straightforward ending, at least from a money standpoint. The money trail should be pretty easy to establish.

Hey give them a break, do you know what it costs to hire Kathy Bates to tutor?

They still talking about this.

This got to be one of the wildest things we've ever seen.

People mad because life ain't like the movie.

Wild.

Still don't understand what's the issue.

when the legend becomes fact -- print the legend