Michael Oher vs The Tuohy's: The Blind Side Real Story!!!

foreign welcome everybody to another great episode of the Allen Alfred Sports Talk Show I'm Alan and today we have a fantastic show for you there's a lot of stuff going on with this Michael Oher the Tui family situation there's a lot of misconception lies you know into windows that are going out there guess what folks I've done a ton of research I've got my investigative lens on I went through a lot of stuff I'm gonna give you a big scope of what's going on what is misleading what is not true what is really truly going on with the Michael Oher versus Tui situation I'll break it all down this is done in response to some of the hate that's been going on the internet I've seen a really really poor display from a sports Personality slamming Michael Orr and I'm going to go ahead and give you my opinion for the first time publicly I have not said anything about this case on the internet and until now and on top of that I want to let you know a few things a few disclaimers all of the information that you're going to hear has been verified and double checked and is sourced out every single piece of information will be put in the links below that I have obtained I'm also going to say that I'm a force a parent and an adoptive parent so I'm going to give you another perspective of that and on top of that I want to let you know here at the Allen Alfred Sports show I've been blessed to interview NFL players coaches people aspiring to get into the NFL Expo players and Beyond so I will give you the sports side of this too and let you hear all of this today on the Allen Alfred Sports show but before we get started let me go ahead and thank our great sponsor Chef G's Florida barbecue sauce so delicious and addicting you may need a support group four delicious flavors classic honey mustard fusion and Heatwave you can go ahead and get yourself a four pack at FL BBQ sauce.com f l bbqsource.com you can also see my great friend Chef G's Florida barbecue sauce right at 301 South 22nd Street here in Tampa Florida let them know that the Allen Alfred Sports show sent you he's got a great location Ivy actually went to the red carpet so check my main sfg's out you won't be disappointed so it's so much information that I got for you it's almost hard to kind of funnel it in so just build me sit tight let me do that work for you Now The Blind Side let's start from this part here how did the blind star begin from the book the book was started from Michael Lewis one of the things that came very apparent to me when I started doing the research about this drama between the twoies and Michael Oher one thing that came apparent to me actually pretty early in the game that we all knew the tuis were very wealthy but one thing became apparent very early in the game was not only were they very wealthy they are well connected they know people and that is an understatement let me talk about that a bit more the book The Blind Side was written by Michael Lewis Michael Lewis is a very acclaimed author he's written The Blind Side book but he's also written Moneyball both of these books turn into big bug Blockbuster successes Moneyball and also the Blind Side well Michael Lewis is also for those who don't know the childhood friend of Sean Tui so when I say they go back they go way back and that's an understatement Michael Lewis is the best friend of Sean Tui so they went ahead and made a deal for the movie The the book I'm sorry of The Blind Side and then that's how the book was written in this book they went ahead and made seventy thousand dollars according to Michael Lewis in royalty fees they broke it up five different ways and that apparently was 14 000 around 14 000 per person fourteen thousand Michael or fourteen thousand for the other four family members Sean Leanne Tui Collins and SJ so there you go that was a breakdown now if you do the math on that that is basically an 80 20 split eighty percent of this of every dollar is going to the two East 20 of every dollar based on that math is going to Michael Orr allegedly now of course we're gonna get into the money aspect later and I'll go ahead and break down the figures even more for you a little bit later but just remember that number for now 80 20. now that's the book deal how that book deal came about now here comes the movie deal and for that part let me go ahead and read verbatim Michael Lewis's portion in the interview he did in the Washington Post in this interview we're going to discuss how the movie The Book turned into a movie this according to Michael Lewis in the Washington Post Fox however never made the movie according to Lewis the studio had thought Julia Roberts would be interested in a film but she wasn't those who don't know Julia Roberts is an actress that went ahead and played in the movie pretty women so Julia Roberts was the first person they initially thought was going to do the movie and she was not interested in it she declined it instead Lewis said Alcon a small production company backed by Chewie's neighbor to his neighbor FedEx CEO Fred Smith stepped in so folks let me stop right there the movie The Blind Side was done and financially backed by a the neighbor the tui's neighbor who is Fred Smith that's who did the movie and according to the statement here Fred Smith for those who don't know is short for Frederick Smith Fred Smith folks is the founder and former CEO of FedEx so check this out the neighbor who is a multi-billionaire is the one who funds the movie so you have best friend does the book the neighbor does the movie deal and he happens to be the founder of FedEx and former CEO he stepped down last year he's retired now but he's also now the chairman of the board so that's how the movie got birth in Michael Lewis's own works allegedly so they go ahead into the movie now Marie gets made in the production of the movie Michael Orr is not even a part of the production of this movie according to Quentin Aaron who was the actor who played Michael Oher in the movie according to his own interview you know allegedly Quentin Aaron did not even meet Michael Oher until four years after the movie was made and in that interview he said that basically you know Michael said he hated the movie you know it's what was alleged and on top of that he said that he was getting ready for the combine for the NFL and throughout the process he also said that the two e's were very Hands-On throughout the production of the movie and this time Michael was playing football for Ole Miss so check this out the movie is done Michael has no input on that and on top of that he's not even there through the production of the movie it's all being funneled from the tuis to the neighbor this is extraordinary Revelation folks okay they go ahead and finish the movie now Michael's it's 2009 and Michael's ready to go to the NFL now let me just take a step back just a moment the conservative ship is the big point of contention and the lawsuit the 14-page deposition that Michael Orr has submitted is basically basically broken down to three parts let me break that down a is a conservative ship B is the money and C is the name usage and likeness that he does not want the tools to use anymore so let's talk about the a now the conservative ship the conservative ship was signed right at the end of the year and then two months later a little over two and a half months later that's when they signed the letter of intent to go to Ole Miss okay so for those who don't know a conservative ship you can get a lot of information about that that is basically a Britney Spears term you know she made it famous but to make a long story short a conservative ship is basically a power of attorney you are basically saying this person has power of attorney over me and there is no familiar family outlook on it all you're not part of the family when you sign a conservative ship now what Michael Oher is contending is that hey you know the the twoies allegedly are saying that hey when you got me to sign this you were saying this was a step towards the adoption and then you know the reason why we went this route is because of the fact that I was you know turning 18 and we didn't want to have problems with the NCAA let me stop right there that is not entirely true now I won't say that the attorneys that advise the two weeks were you know lying but I will say they may have misinformed them or the two East you know could be telling you a different version of really what happened I won't speculate on that I'll let you guys decide in the comments below what you think but the reality is in the state of Tennessee you can adopt someone who's under 18 and over 18 you can adopt an adult so the fact that they could not adopt Michael Orr is simply not true it's just not true you can do the research yourself I will put the link below too you can adopt someone who's 18 in the state of Tennessee and older now I will say this much from the process of myself doing an adoption twice typically speaking in most cases when you do an adoption it's going to take longer than two months it's typically going to take anywhere between three to eight months and on top of that it is a lot of paperwork let me just let you know that right now so anyway they sign this conservatorship towards the end of the year and then two months later two and a half months later is national Signing Day and then Michael Orr commits to Ole Miss Okay so they're working on the movie they go ahead and start doing this thing without Michael and then the movie goes ahead and then gets dropped in 2009 in 2009 also Michael is the 23rd pick for the Baltimore Ravens in the first round so gets drafted a few months later the book The the movie comes out and it becomes a worldwide success 309 plus million dollars Sandra Bullock wants the Oscar for best actress now when the movie actually comes out 2009 Michael sees this movie and he instantly hates the movie up until now he says he's seen it one time let me just give you a few of the factors not all of them but a few of the factors what would which would make someone hate a movie that's about their life okay some of the major factors that Michael took issue with as we all know he said it quite a few times was that the movie made him look quote unquote dumb and that is actually a gross understatement the movie made him look like a a big hunk of a man with no confidence absolutely no intelligence whatsoever I mean wow did you have to make him look that dumb so much so that I said I'm a foster parent and adopt a parent and my wife would even agree with this it's funny but it's true at the same token we had a two-year-old girl that stayed with us and that two-year-old girl was more intellectually smarter than the version of the Hollywood version of The Blind Side 17 year old Michael Orr that's how dumb they made him look dumb they made him seem in this movie and that's an understatement another issue that Michael took a you know took offense to was the notion that a six-year-old boy had to actually teach Michael how to play football by using condiments and then one of the big movies of movies when Sandra Bullock had to confront Michael order and just dumb it down when you think of me think you're protecting me and SJ and that's why you and how you need to block folks all of this did not happen and let me give you the real version of what happened before the two-wee's ever met Michael Michael was a D5 All-American athlete he was considered one of the top five linemen in the United States of America imagine you have an athlete in your home that's one of the top five offensive linemen in the country D5 athlete and for those who don't know D3 D4 D5 when you're a D5 athlete if some coach is not out there trying to knock on your door and get you to sign that coach is not doing a good job that is the bottom line Michael Orr already had offers at this point before meeting the two weeks he had offers it was just a matter of where he was going to go it goes on okay another issue that Michael took a huge like what the heck was the fact that the two weeks took all the credit not just his credit but other people who were involved credit one person who had a very small part in the movie but it was very very significant important was Tony Henderson Tony Henderson was the gentleman who lobbied to get not only his son but as a package deal to get Michael to go to Briarcrest Christian High School he lobbied to get him in you know as a package deal based on his Athletics and they went ahead reluctantly and did it coach freeze was the person who he basically told him you should take this deal and Coach freeze did accept and they got him to go to the school the school where he was noticed for having such outstanding Athletics and on top of that he also was athletic in bat in basketball and football track too so my man was killing the game at this point so let's go a little bit further now one of the big controversies too in the movie The Blind Side was how did the two East actually meet well the real version folks is it wasn't SJ short for Sean Jr that met Michael it was the dad who befriended Michael the dad made friends with Michael that's like me befriending a 17 year old boy that is very different than a six-year-old boy making a friend and not only that it gets more folks Michael or was not homeless the man was not homeless Michael Orr was living with Tony Henderson as I mentioned earlier but there was two other families that he also had an opportunity to stay with so yes he did not have a permanent residence but he was basically able to go to Terry Henderson house the other two families was helping not the two weeks and kind of rotate this is all before the tuis even came in the picture so these are some of the discrepancies there's a lot more now let's even talk about the Ole Miss decision and that was the first time in the movie when they started go ahead when the recruiter the lady was like hey why did you choose Ole Miss this was the first time in the entire movie where Michael Oher challenged the tuis motives and he challenged their Authority he basically said did you do all of this to get me to go to Ole Miss where you wanted to and in the movie Lee and Tui basically said yeah we wanted you to go to Ole Miss okay let me go ahead and explain that to you as well according to what the tui's attorney said and we'll just go based on that I think it was a lot more but based on what Louis the tui's attorney said was Michael had three offers LSU Tennessee and Ole Miss now out of those three options and this is not a disc on Ole Miss let me just be clear let me be clear I have actually even interviewed the number one overall draft pick for Ole Miss and that was Eli Manning you can even watch that video yourself so this is not a disc or an Ole Miss let me make that clear out of the top 10 schools that you're researching where you should go with you're trying to go ahead and make it to the NFL it's LSU Tennessee and then Ole Miss is down here Ole Miss is around the 20th on the list Nick Saban at the time was number three and Tennessee was at the time the number 11 school to go to it was up there and and folks he had better options you know my my thing is hey why don't you go to LSU you know and even the recruiter the lady the NCAA investigator said the same thing it looks suspicious it looks suspicious so if you went to LSU the reason why I say this is because he was drafted number 23 in the first round which is outstanding don't even wrong there's players that that reach out to me that want to make it to the NFL and they would take that in a heartbeat so nothing wrong with that that's fan that's fantastic but folks if he went to LSU with the same academic same performance I mean we'll never know but chances are you're going to be in the top 10 worst case scenario the top 12. which means that your draft pick would have been higher which means that your first contract would have you know in most cases been higher too now Spain on that Ole Miss he decides to go to Ole Miss and guess what that same coach that was in Briar Crest High School ends up becoming the head coach 20 days later from Michael Oher so 20 days later coincidence I think not but on top of that there's a package deal so in Ole Miss he gets the coach that was a Briarcrest high school Christian High School comes along the tutors you know Sue as well as the entire tour family and this is within two and a half months of signing that conservatorship which could have been an adoption you know we'll just say it like that so all of this stuff is highly suspect I'll just say it as that okay let's go ahead and the movie we done talked about that and there was a lot more other discrepancies but I just want to touch on some of the major ones here and then the point of contention with Michael Oher and the two weeks really started when that movie was released I mentioned to you earlier that Michael Oher had no input in the production of the movie and it begs the question a few things why would you portray me as looking as that dumb in the movie do you really think I'm that dumb is one of the things that Michael questioned or were you okay with them portraying me as that dump or combination of both either way it is a bad look it is a bad look because it's simply not true folks let me start knocking out some of these into endos now and these hypotheticals and these bogus arguments that people are throwing out I'ma start hitting you with them right now first and foremost let me make it clear to you let's talk about the money let's talk about the money one of the things that people keep saying she saying around is hey the two he's had money they sold a company for over 200 million dollars they didn't need no money what do they need Michael's money for come on folks that's a weak argument that is so weak that is so weak and that is coming from somebody who's actually met of several Millionaires and several multi-millionaires and several billionaires I'm telling you that is simply not true some of the most greediest people you will meet in the world are rich people now I'm not saying that for everybody but that is what happens you go to a pork place and you go to Rich place if you talk about people stealing or trying to make more it's like a disease you're gonna find more in the rich we can see that in everyday life in Corporate America you know they make billions it's not good enough they have to lay off your whole department and it just gets greedy and greedy I'll give you a small little quick story and this is a Biblical principle too and I'll give Veggie Tales who does for those who don't know who do very good Bible related stories for kids in this version of the VeggieTales you see a king he's in a tub he has a bunch of rubber duckies bunching them and they're all the same color likeness of each one of them to be in the same he looks in a distance while taking his bath and he sees someone else with just one rubber ducky with the same image calling likeness as one that he's in the in the tub with with all of them guess what happens not only did he take that one rubber ducky that one single reproduct the same as all of the other ones same color likeness in everyone he takes them out and he said he had to have that rubber ducky we see this in the Bible story David greed just Builds on Greed so the fact that hey the two he's got money that's all great but it doesn't mean that somebody's not owed them money allegedly so many other innuendos that people just throw out that just say hey Michael Oher bit the hand that fed him folks that is simply not true as I went through earlier as much as I want to believe the best in everybody let me make it clear the tuis did not make Oak Michael Orr they found Michael Oher the two e's did not make Michael Oher they found Michael Oher after he was a D5 athlete and number within a top five alignment so it gets even worse now having said this some other induendos I'll go into someone else a bit later I want to talk about Sandra Bullock Sandra Bullock was the heat of a lot of this stuff with hey she should return it see that's a problem with a lot of people is that they just throw out stuff Sandra Bullock is just as heartbroken as most people who really love that movie The Blind Side she's playing a role in the script and a lot of this information is coming directly from the Tui family so she's playing the script she's doing her thing she got best actress on a roll that she was given a script and on top of that one of the best movies one of the greatest moves I love is the Titanic guess who won the best actress Kate Winslet playing a fictional character that we all knew was not real and you guys are not asking her to return her Oscar so leave Sandra Bullock alone not only she has to deal with this but she recently has lost a partner and photographer so my condolences go out to Sandra Bullock and her family leave Sandra Bullock alone she had nothing to do with this so now let me just reiterate a bit more on the money side okay because that is now we talked about the conservative ship now the conservative ship for all intents and purposes the attorneys for the two e's are basically stating that they're gonna let it go They're gonna let it go so that's the a part pretty much they keep their word that's going to be dissolved the B parts of money which I'll talk to you in just a moment about that and then the C part is the name using likeness by default that's going to go away folks because the Tui family could say anything they want to say about Michael Oher we all know he's not adopted and we all know that there is a contentious relationship between the two of you you know the Tui family can say whatever they want but it's not going to fly and on top of that the name images of likeness it goes deeper than that if you trace it and you go through it they have been using Michael Oher's quote-unquote adoption for many many years saying that he's adopted and that's not true but now we know the real truth is that he's not adopted and he's not going to get adopted at least anytime soon now we're gonna go ahead and just go ahead and talk about the money now okay so that's the part in the middle we got the a and the C taken care of now we're going to talk about the money okay the money is based on what we're seeing was an 80 20 split that's allegedly to what Mike Lewis said now what the attorney said in the movie that was the book part this the 70 000. in the movie part allegedly the attorneys for the tuis are basically saying the movie made 500 000 total profit is what everybody got as far as the start part for the two-way family so two he's got 500 000 and then they dispersed a hundred thousand to each one of the to his family members for them and then Michael got the other fifth again it's an 80 20 split basically the two is getting eighty percent and Michael is getting 20 percent just like in the book deal allegedly now Michael Lewis said it was 370 each you know was the part of their royalties so you're getting different numbers but one thing so for sure is that it's an 80 20 split and just like a lot of other people have mentioned I don't believe that's a fair assessment I don't believe in my opinion looking at this as someone who doesn't have any Financial input on either side it's not fair Michael's story should get at least 50 percent of the proceeds it should be 50 to a non-family member obviously Michael Oher and 50 for the two East so taking that number let's say hypothetically you know allegedly it's correct 500 000 out of that 500 000 250 should go to Michael in my opinion and 250 should go to the two weeks and with that 250 they as a family should divide that money amongst themselves it should not be an 80 20 split how do you get only 20 of a movie that's based on your life it just doesn't make sense to me that is my opinion and allegedly Michael Oher didn't even get this much in this movie one said this is more than what Michael or allegedly has gotten from The Blind Side a movie that was made that was not anywhere near what's really going on he had no production in made him look dumb made him look a guy who was slow made him look like a guy who didn't know how to play football which was not true Maiden was a guy who was homeless which is not true so I prayed that this has a peaceful resolution at least it let's look at the positives in this the positives it Michael Orr does not follow his lawsuit the conservative ship will still be on so at least the a seem like it's going to dissolve allegedly based on the attorney's you know saying that they're just gonna just give up on it the C part well that default I talked about that earlier that's going away now we just got to settle the B part I hope it all comes down to the money I pray that this gets resolved hey if the two weeks have the money like they say they do you have in my opinion you have to scratch some checks you know what I'm saying just go ahead and pay the man the man deserves to get paid having said that a lot of people are angry and upset about the Revelation that this movie was not true well let's look at the positive sides thanks to Michael Orr what is brought in the darkness will come out to the light and there's a more biblical principle that's a physical principle another one love thy neighbor because your neighbor might be the founder of FedEx a multi-billionaire and he might need to fund your movie that was written a book out of so love thy neighbor and the other positive thing is I will never ever look at a quote of based on a true story ever the same I would like okay and in this movie it said based on extraordinary series story based on an extraordinary story or based on a true story I would never look at it the same folks after this movie The Blind Side and there is some other positive notes about this what are the positive notes well Michael Orr wanted credit for his hard work his diligence he also wanted to make sure other people got their credit and hard work and diligence so I'm gonna do that now props to Tony Henderson props to the two family that took in Michael prior to the two e's and also let me go ahead and give props to Michael Orr I said at the beginning of this video this was a response to someone being really slamming Michael or another personality and went in hard they basically considered Michael Oher to have quote unquote a Ghetto Dream so let's look at this Ghetto Dream together shall we Michael Orr came from hurt Village tough ghetto in Memphis Tennessee very similar to what I experienced growing up in Brooklyn New York rough neighborhood you know unfortunate it was drug crack there was you know just multiple kids 11 siblings Ruff is understatement he was getting left back in the first and second grade because of all this trauma and you can imagine it was chaos total chaos none of this was anything that Michael did to deserve it he was just born and fortunately in a bad situation so he had to deal with this but he made the decision that he was not going to go into the narrative and do like other people did in her Village he was going to make something by herself now he was a little bit behind school and let me stop right there for a quick second kids that are in foster care and I have had the pleasure of taking kids in foster care I'm still a false parent it is par for the course it is very normal and standard operating procedure where kid would be behind in school for a year maybe two maybe even more because they're dealing with rated R stuff that they should not be dealing with or seeing on a day-to-day basis it is just too much chaos and too much going on it could be abuse it could be neglect it could be a whole slew of things another stereotype I'm gonna clear up here and is that it's just low-income black families that are in fourth grade that is absolutely positively not true I have taken care of black kids white kids and Spanish in fact the two girls that I have adopted are Spanish so and so don't go with that narrative okay it is simply not true okay now back to Michael Oher so he came out of those hard streets went ahead and did his thing in school went on to Briarcrest Christian High School in there he excelled in football basketball and track became a D5 All-American considered one of the top five linemen in the United States was recruited by people all over and then on top of that he went ahead and became an All-American and he graduated went on to Ole Miss as he went on to Ole Miss he ended up becoming a graduate from Ole Miss he went up becoming the first round draft pick by the Baltimore Ravens ended up winning a Super Bowl for the Baltimore Ravens and ended up playing eight years in the NFL the NFL for those who don't know stands for National Football League but it also could stand for NFL not for long not for long and the reason why I say that because the average career for NFL player is three years and three months and Michael went ahead and played eight years in the NFL league the not for long League the average salary in the NFL is 860 000. Michael Orr played for eight years and in those eight years he masked uh total earnings of over 34 million dollars so and then it gets more Michael Orr is the author of two books and a best-selling author so folks not bad for somebody who had a Ghetto Dream in fact we're gonna use that to end on today's message go out and make your own ghetto dreams go out and be an artist a musician a painter a teacher an astronaut uh NFL football player a basketball player baseball player dream big folks have your ghetto dreams because when you reach for the stars you never know what can happen don't let people minimize You by saying you have a quote-unquote Ghetto Dream in a negative way Michael Orr didn't do that and he went ahead and became a mega Superstar success folks have your ghetto dreams do it don't give up keep fighting keep doing your thing don't let the naysayer say you anything different I pray that this case has resolution and comes to an amiable goal restitution and folks do not forget if you love this comment please like comment and subscribe to the Allen Alfred Sports Talk Show I really enjoy doing all this research I might do another second half of the story but for now that is all on this episode of the Alan Alfred Sports Talk Show take care be blessed be well and take care for now thank you