Michael Oher blasts ‘The Blind Side,’ says movie has negatively impacted his NFL career, Michael Oher wishes individuals would choose not to see to "The Blind Side."
The man whose story roused the 2009 film — which prompted an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Sandra Bullock — said Wednesday that he can't stand the film and wishes individuals would quit judging his vocation against what they saw on the silver screen.
"I'm not attempting to demonstrate anything. Individuals take a gander at me, and they detract things from me in light of a motion picture. They don't generally see the aptitudes and the sort of player I am. That is the reason I get downsized such a great amount of, in light of something off the field," Oher told ESPN.com.
"This stuff, calling me a bust, individuals saying on the off chance that I can play or not ... that has nothing to do with football. It's something else off the field. That is the reason I don't care for that movie.''Oher brought the point up after he got into it with second-year cautious end Kony Ealy amid Panthers minicamp and was inquired as to whether he felt the need to substantiate himself after two down seasons with the Ravens and Titans. The Ravens didn't re-sign him after the 2013 season and the Titans discharged him after one damage tormented season on a five-year, $20 million agreement he marked before the 2014 season.
Oher ascended from destitute teen to All-American at Ole Miss and bloomed into a first-round pick. His story was caught by Michael Lewis in his 2007 book, "The Blind Side" and adjusted into the element film of the same name. Bullock assumed the part of Oher's received mother in the film.
However, the film, in Oher's perspective, has skewed the way individuals see him and the way he's assessed in the NFL.
"That is detracted from my football. That is the reason individuals scrutinize me. That is the reason individuals take a gander at me consistently," he said, including that individuals ordinarily don't pay consideration in all out attack mode line "Yet me? I'm getting looked for everything."
His distain for the film isn't new. At media day before the Ravens played in Super Bowl XLVII, Oher said "I'm sick of the film. I'm here to play football."
Oher marked an one-year, $7 million arrangement with the Panthers this offseason where he'll be tasked with securing quarterback Cam Newton's blind s
The man whose story roused the 2009 film — which prompted an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Sandra Bullock — said Wednesday that he can't stand the film and wishes individuals would quit judging his vocation against what they saw on the silver screen.
"I'm not attempting to demonstrate anything. Individuals take a gander at me, and they detract things from me in light of a motion picture. They don't generally see the aptitudes and the sort of player I am. That is the reason I get downsized such a great amount of, in light of something off the field," Oher told ESPN.com.
"This stuff, calling me a bust, individuals saying on the off chance that I can play or not ... that has nothing to do with football. It's something else off the field. That is the reason I don't care for that movie.''Oher brought the point up after he got into it with second-year cautious end Kony Ealy amid Panthers minicamp and was inquired as to whether he felt the need to substantiate himself after two down seasons with the Ravens and Titans. The Ravens didn't re-sign him after the 2013 season and the Titans discharged him after one damage tormented season on a five-year, $20 million agreement he marked before the 2014 season.
Oher ascended from destitute teen to All-American at Ole Miss and bloomed into a first-round pick. His story was caught by Michael Lewis in his 2007 book, "The Blind Side" and adjusted into the element film of the same name. Bullock assumed the part of Oher's received mother in the film.
However, the film, in Oher's perspective, has skewed the way individuals see him and the way he's assessed in the NFL.
"That is detracted from my football. That is the reason individuals scrutinize me. That is the reason individuals take a gander at me consistently," he said, including that individuals ordinarily don't pay consideration in all out attack mode line "Yet me? I'm getting looked for everything."
His distain for the film isn't new. At media day before the Ravens played in Super Bowl XLVII, Oher said "I'm sick of the film. I'm here to play football."
Oher marked an one-year, $7 million arrangement with the Panthers this offseason where he'll be tasked with securing quarterback Cam Newton's blind s
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