Former OL Oher Blindsided: Suing Tuohy's Claiming They Never Adopted Him

[mrags]

8 minutes ago, transient said:

That was Russ Brandon, and he can’t help it that he has resting douche face. 

Oh snap. My bad. BBB If you saw this, I apologize. 

Edited August 15, 2023 by mrags

[JoPoy88]

10 hours ago, mrags said:

I mean, Oher received a home with a roof over his head. Not inside a slum with a crackhead 

mother and no father. He was guided into having an NFL career and made millions from it. 
 

im not saying he doesn’t have a gripe. Just seems kind of petty to complain about it now. The guy had a successful career in the NFL and made millions thanks to that family. Without them it doesn’t happen. He probably blew all his money and has no other options at this point. 

yeah so his background allows people to allegedly defraud him. You’re on a roll recently. 

[Southern_Bills]

10 hours ago, mrags said:

I mean, Oher received a home with a roof over his head. Not inside a slum with a crackhead 

mother and no father. He was guided into having an NFL career and made millions from it. 
 

im not saying he doesn’t have a gripe. Just seems kind of petty to complain about it now. The guy had a successful career in the NFL and made millions thanks to that family. Without them it doesn’t happen. He probably blew all his money and has no other options at this point. 

 

Bad take imo. If the reports are true they lied to him so they could profit off his name/likeness, under the impression he was signing paperwork to join their family.

 

Like I said, if it's true they are horrible people. 

 

I mean people house homeless people just to get insurance policies on them so they get paid when they die, should the homeless feel used or fortunate to have a roof for a period of time 🤷

[transient]

5 hours ago, BuffaloBillyG said:

Wait until you find out Kevin Costner was  never really the GM of the Cleveland Browns...

Wait… so he didn’t call the GM of the Seahawks a pancake eating motherf****r in really real life?!?! Next I suppose you’re gonna tell me that David Putney doesn’t exist! 🤦‍♂️

[Doc Brown]

I'll be honest about this story.  I didn't see it coming.

[JoPoy88]

10 hours ago, BuffaloBillyG said:

True. He was just the only one not being paid for it if allegations are correct.

 

"Their relationship continued to deteriorate as he learned that he was the only member of the family not receiving royalty checks from the movie, and it was permanently fractured when he realized he wasn't adopted and a part of the family."

Exactly. Guess the prevailing opinion in this case at this board is “he got got” and it’s all good. Guess his white saviors get to profit on the story more than him, even though without Oher and his talent and subsequent success there is no story at all.

 

This place surprises me more and more every day. And mostly not in a good way. 

[JoPoy88]

10 hours ago, mrags said:

 I didn’t. And don’t need to. Regardless if he was actually “adopted” or not. Who cares. Was he brought into their home? Was he given a roof over his head? Did he have a parental figure helping him and assisting him unlike his actual mother? Would he be a retired NFL player if not for that family? 
 

nobody is owed anything in this world. He of all people should know that. So what the family profited from the story. So did he. He became an NFL star. Earned millions. 

Who cares? Because it’s possible fraud. And you didn’t read it, because “you don’t have to” - that’s right, mrags knows everything he needs to know about the world. Jesus Christ. 
 

It’s always the dumbest people that take these stances, and I can’t say that streak has been broken here. 

Edited August 15, 2023 by JoPoy88

[JoPoy88]

10 hours ago, Bob Jones said:

Totally agree with this. The main gripe (other than the $$$, and isn’t it ALWAYS about the $$$...LOL) seems to be that he wasn't "legally adopted", but for all intents and purposes, he was adopted by that family. Sort of like a "common law marriage" situation. 

 

It is peculiar though that the family would actually write in their book that he was getting a cut of the movie profits, while in reality (according to the lawsuit) he was getting zilch. That makes no sense.

 

Yeah, he was “basically” adopted - so he got none of the legal benefits of being “legally” adopted…but yeah, as you say, no harm no foul right? (And it’s nothing like common law marriage. Common law marriage literally *IS* marriage in the states that allow it. So that analogy falls out your window and splatters on the pavement immediately.)
 

And then you point out the fact that these people lied about it both in the book (written by Mr. Tuohy’s buddy from high school) and in the movie. Very “peculiar” as you say.

10 hours ago, mrags said:

That’s a false. He’d most likely either be in prison or dead. Statistics are real. 

I had little doubt of what you are, but thanks for eliminating that.

[Nephilim17]

"But there are some important legal distinctions. If Oher had been adopted by the Tuohys, he would have been a legal member of their family, and he would have retained power to handle his own financial affairs. Under the conservatorship, Oher surrendered that authority to the Tuohys, even though he was a legal adult with no known physical or psychological disabilities."

 

Very interesting stuff there. I will reserve judgement till a court case is held but that point above is curious, at the very least.

[syhuang]

Now it’s getting more interesting…….

 

Michael Oher's 'adoptive' brother SJ Tuohy claims ex-NFL star demanded money from the family in exchange for keeping quiet... as he insists 'no one was surprised' by lawsuit

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'If he says he learned that [the conservatorship] in February, I find that very hard to believe. I was curious today to go back to our family group texts to see what had been said. There was things back in 2020 and 2021 that were like, "if you guys give me this much money, I won't go public with things." So I don't know if that's true.

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Tuohy Family Breaks Silence On The Michael Oher Accusations: Sean Tuohy Calls Allegations ‘Insulting’

 

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The 63-year-old went on to claim that he and his wife did not profit off the film, The Blind Side. “We didn’t make any money off the movie,” he alleged. “Well, Michael Lewis (the author of the book ‘The Blind Side’) gave us half of his share. Everybody in the family got an equal share, including Michael. It was about $14,000, each. We were never offered money; we never asked for money. My money is well-documented; you can look up how much I sold my company for.”

 

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Furthermore, Sean addressed Michael’s conservatorship claims. “Michael was obviously living with us for a long time, and the NCAA didn’t like that,” Sean claimed. “They said the only way Michael could go to Ole Miss was if he was actually part of the family. I sat Michael down and told him, ‘If you’re planning to go to Ole Miss — or even considering Ole Miss — we think you have to be part of the family. This would do that, legally.’ We contacted lawyers who had told us that we couldn’t adopt over the age of 18; the only thing we could do was to have a conservatorship. We were so concerned it was on the up-and-up that we made sure the biological mother came to court.”

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[Thurman#1]

12 hours ago, mrags said:

I guess it depends on how many millions I already made from the career that I had because a family took me in helped me become successful 

 

 

If you're a saintly man, an absolute paragon of zen-like acceptance of life, I can see this would be possible.

 

For those who did not qualify for the top millionth of a percentage of humans, we would be angry to some degree. Their treatment of me would/should absolutely be a factor, of course. But when wronged, people get frustrated and angry. It's not the best of human characteristics, but it's pretty universal.

 

People who have a few million dollars are not exempt from this human weakness. Take a look at Elon Musk, for example. Does he seem generally calm, zen-like and accepting of small grievances?

 

I'd have to hear the details of the adoption part of the story, but I can imagine that causing great pain depending on circumstances and motives.

 

 

Edited August 15, 2023 by Thurman#1

[JoPoy88]

2 hours ago, syhuang said:

Now it’s getting more interesting…….

 

Michael Oher's 'adoptive' brother SJ Tuohy claims ex-NFL star demanded money from the family in exchange for keeping quiet... as he insists 'no one was surprised' by lawsuit

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'If he says he learned that [the conservatorship] in February, I find that very hard to believe. I was curious today to go back to our family group texts to see what had been said. There was things back in 2020 and 2021 that were like, "if you guys give me this much money, I won't go public with things." So I don't know if that's true.

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Tuohy Family Breaks Silence On The Michael Oher Accusations: Sean Tuohy Calls Allegations ‘Insulting’

 

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The 63-year-old went on to claim that he and his wife did not profit off the film, The Blind Side. “We didn’t make any money off the movie,” he alleged. “Well, Michael Lewis (the author of the book ‘The Blind Side’) gave us half of his share. Everybody in the family got an equal share, including Michael. It was about $14,000, each. We were never offered money; we never asked for money. My money is well-documented; you can look up how much I sold my company for.”

 

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Furthermore, Sean addressed Michael’s conservatorship claims. “Michael was obviously living with us for a long time, and the NCAA didn’t like that,” Sean claimed. “They said the only way Michael could go to Ole Miss was if he was actually part of the family. I sat Michael down and told him, ‘If you’re planning to go to Ole Miss — or even considering Ole Miss — we think you have to be part of the family. This would do that, legally.’ We contacted lawyers who had told us that we couldn’t adopt over the age of 18; the only thing we could do was to have a conservatorship. We were so concerned it was on the up-and-up that we made sure the biological mother came to court.”

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Except you can be adopted in many, many states over the age of 18, with mutual consent (including Tennessee (since 1949) and Mississippi.)

Edited August 15, 2023 by JoPoy88

[JoPoy88]

11 minutes ago, Thurman#1 said:

 

 

If you're a saintly man, an absolute paragon of zen-like acceptance of life, I can see this would be possible.

 

For those who did not qualify for the top millionth of a percentage of humans, we would be angry to some degree. Their treatment of me would/should absolutely be a factor, of course. But when wronged, people get frustrated and angry. It's not the best of human characteristics, but it's pretty universal.

 

People who have a few million dollars are not exempt from this human weakness. Take a look at Elon Musk, for example. Does he seem generally calm, zen-like and accepting of small grievances?

That saintly man or woman as you say would also be more popularly known as a “dupe” or an “easy mark” in today’s society, unfortunate to say. 

Edited August 15, 2023 by JoPoy88

[unbillievable]

29 minutes ago, syhuang said:

Furthermore, Sean addressed Michael’s conservatorship claims. “Michael was obviously living with us for a long time, and the NCAA didn’t like that,” Sean claimed. “They said the only way Michael could go to Ole Miss was if he was actually part of the family. I sat Michael down and told him, ‘If you’re planning to go to Ole Miss — or even considering Ole Miss — we think you have to be part of the family. This would do that, legally.’ We contacted lawyers who had told us that we couldn’t adopt over the age of 18; the only thing we could do was to have a conservatorship. We were so concerned it was on the up-and-up that we made sure the biological mother came to court.”

 

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Why would the NCAA require an adoption/conservatorship to attend Ole Miss?

 

Is there a rule I'm not familiar with?

[BritBill]

13 hours ago, TheyCallMeAndy said:

Needless to say, Blindside II will be a great movie. 

 

A cross between Diff'rent Strokes and Kramer v Kramer. 

[unbillievable]

7 hours ago, unbillievable said:

Why was a conservatorship granted?

Doesn't it require a Doctor or Psychologist along with a Judge signing off on it?

What was wrong with Oher that the Tuoys were given adult guardianship?

 

I did some research and the state granted Conservatorship because Oher was poor.  "Impoverishment" is a qualifying disability.

 

This lawsuit maybe about Oher getting control of his personal finances.

[Since1981]

4 hours ago, Mango said:

Man. This has to be a TBD record. 7 pages and 80% of responses didn’t read the article. Some of you willfully won’t.

This is a bad take on the forum.
 
there are two points of view in this and two PR releases. But, basically, Touhys said they are rich but couldn't “adopt” an 18 yr old but wanted to look out for him (conservancy) On the other hand, Michael thought he had been “adopted” into a family and now emotionally feels cheated ($ is just a symptom and a side show)

[JoPoy88]

29 minutes ago, unbillievable said:

 

I did some research and the state granted Conservatorship because Oher was poor.  "Impoverishment" is a qualifying disability.

 

This lawsuit maybe about Oher getting control of his personal finances.

link on that research? 

[JoPoy88]

4 hours ago, Mango said:

Man. This has to be a TBD record. 7 pages and 80% of responses didn’t read the article. Some of you willfully won’t.
 

Wild. 
 

 

Yeah. I wonder why.

[Billy Claude]

This doesn't seem like a he said/she said issue.   It shouldn't take much effort for the courts to find out who is telling the truth about this since they can easily subpoena the relevant contracts/ financial records.