How Has Football Helped Michael Oher's Life

The sport of football has helped many people through their problems. Michael Oher, son of a mother who was addicted to drugs and father who was only in his life for a short part of his life. He soon became homeless, later a family, the Tuohy family, took him in and paid for his school. While he was going to school he played football to help him forget what had happened to him. Michael Lewis wrote about Michael Oher’s life to see how football has helped Michael Oher through the problems he had. In The Blind Side, the theme of football helps Michael Oher get through his problems he had in his past. In the beginning, the author showed how football was important to some of the all time football greats, and how they also wanted to make an impact in the game. The football greats would talk …show more content…
His problems were he was in a household of a single mother who was addicted to drugs and was not there for her kids most of the time, so Michael Oher pretty much homeless. "Michael's gift is that the Good Lord gave him the ability to forget. He's mad at no one and doesn't really care what happened. His story might be sad, but he's not sad." This is talking about how Michael Oher is able to forget what had happened to him in his past. Michael Oher got into the sport of football by the family, the Tuohy family, that took him in was telling him he was built to play football and would be feared in football. “One of his more talented teammates, Joseph Crone, thought Michael Oher’s main contribution came before the game, when the opposing team stumbled out of their locker room or their bus, and took the measure of the Briarcrest Christian School. ‘They’d see all of us,’ said Crone, ‘and then they’d see Mike and say, oh crap.’” (Lewis, pg 69) This is talking about how Michael Oher is feared by many of the other schools players. Football was starting to help Michael Oher the problems he was