Few people on earth travel as often as professional athletes. With On the Road, the GQ Sports Travel Questionnaire, they’re weighing in on everything from room service, to flying comfortably, to their favorite chain restaurants. Earlier this week, the retired football player Michael Oher filed a petition with Shelby County probate court in Tennessee alleging that he was misled into a conservatorship. Oher is a retired football player and Super Bowl champion who played eight seasons in the NFL as an offensive tackle, with his last game coming in 2016. But chances are, you don’t remember Oher for protecting Ravens’ quarterback Joe Flacco. He is better known for serving as the inspiration for The Blind Side, the 2009 movie that tells the story of him going from childhood poverty and foster care to the NFL—and that he now says was based on a lie. Oher thought that papers he signed in August 2004 meant he would be legally adopted by the Tuohy family, who he lived with when he was in high school. This week, his petition alleged that he’d in fact signed his way into a conservatorship, and that the Tuohys raked in a bunch of money that he did not. On Wednesday, the Tuohy family announced that they would end the conservatorship. Here’s everything we know about the story so far.
In the movie—based on Michael Lewis’ 2006 book of the same name—Oher, who is Black, is taken in by a wealthy white family. Leigh Anne (played by Sandra Bullock) and Sean Tuohy (played by Tim McGraw) welcome Oher into their Memphis home one night after he tells them he was planning to sleep outside. While living with the Tuohys, he gets a spot on the high school football team, where his size and athleticism draws the attention of college coaches. Eventually, Oher gets a scholarship to the University of Mississippi and is later taken in the first round of the 2009 NFL Draft. Those last two things definitely happened. But Oher’s lawsuit raises questions about everything else.
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