Michael Oher

Michael Oher, a super bowl champion, super bowl runner up, and first round draft pick. Unlike many other professional athletes, Oher wasn’t always successful. He was born into a family with 16 children, who provided little to no support. Oher was a foster child, but would often run away from those homes in search for his mother, giving him the states nickname “runner”. As a homeless teenager in high school, Oher would go to random places just to keep warm. Michael Oher was born on May 28th, 1986 he is now 29 years old. Michael was drafted in the first round in the 2009 NFL draft by the Baltimore Ravens, where he won a super bowl. He was then released by the Ravens, and then signed by the Tennessee Titans where he played 1 season. This passed off-season he was picked up by the Carolina panthers to finish with a record of 15-1 in the regular season, then going to the super bowl to loose against the Denver Broncos. (Michael Oher Biography) Oher earned a football scholarship to the University of Ole Miss, although he had much other collage offers from LSU, Tennessee, and Mississippi.…

Michael Oher, who was a homeless boy, was taken away from his mother at the age of 5 due to her frequent drug addiction. He had been sleeping at his father's friend’s house for most of his life. One day his father's friend went into a large catholic school in Memphis to talk to the head coach of the football team. Coach Cotton and Michael’s friend were trying to get him into the school for not only football but for a good education as well. Michael’s grades were very low and did not have much…

homeless to becoming a successful athlete, Michael Jerome Oher was truly amazing. Michael Oher has faced many challenges and misfortunes in his life, yet he still became such a successful individual. A child’s early years is usually filled with abundant love and care but not for Oher. (“Michael Oher Biography” Biography). For Michael Oher, early intervention did not enter his life until the age of sixteen. Many factors came into play and Oher’s life changed drastically for the better when the…

playing in the Super Bowl? Michael Oher, a person who nobody would have had any hope for, beat the odds to become a professional football player. Michael Oher was born on May 28, 1986 in Memphis, Tennessee. His mother was a drug addict who never took care of him, and he never even met his dad. Even though Michael Oher grew up in poverty, often homeless, and without parents to help him, he still became a professional athlete and even has made it to the Super Bowl twice. Michael Oher’s early…

Michael Oher agonized that, “The ending of my story is unique, but the beginning of my story is, sadly, far too common.” The book I read was I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness to The Blind Side and Beyond by Michael Oher and Don Yaeger. This book talks about the struggles he went through from when he was little and some facts about the foster system. Statistics show that only one-third of all children eligible to be adopted in the foster care system will end up with parents or permanent legal…

you to be able to hold on in circumstances that make you feel like you don't have a chance. In the movie, The Blind Side, Michael Oher was that kid and had a similar experience like this, where his life was changed by a family named the Tuohy's. Michael was not always gritty, but with the help of the Tuohy family encouraging him and showing him what family is really about, he gained more grit. Being a kid like Michael Oher must've been hard with all of the rough experiences he was faced with,…

and Ethnicity. The plot of this movie is centered around Michael Oher, who is currently an offensive tackle for the Carolina Panthers. Throughout the movie, you get an insight into Michael Oher’s childhood and the start of his football career at Briarcrest Christian School (Wingate Christian in the movie). Michael Oher, born on May 28, 1986, as Michael Jerome Williams Jr., was one of 12 children. His father, Michael Jerome Williams Sr. and mother, Denise Oher, provided hardly any support for…

Inspirational Essay: Michael J. Oher Introduction to Michael Oher Running all his life, no where to go, going place to place, has no one to turn to. Michael Oher was born May 28, 1986. He was the son of a crack cocaine addicted mother, with 12 other children, whom some he has never met. His father was out of the picture, and died when Michael was in highschool. Michael has gone from 11 different schools in his first 9 years of being a student. He goes from foster care, to foster care, sometimes…

The Blind Side is based off of a true story about Michael Oher, the current Carolina Panthers starting left tackle. The movie kicks off by introducing Michael as a very talented athlete who is making it through extreme difficulties growing up. A mechanic who occasionally looks after Michael explained why Oher would be a great fit for Wingate Christian High School’s football team to the team’s head coach, Coach Cotton. Coach Cotton was blown away with Michael’s athletic ability and convinced…

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…