Unwind 5:
15 years ago
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Post #1, Chapters 1-3
I read the first three chapters, pages 1-73, of The Blindside by Michael Lewis. So far, it is one of the most inspirtaitonal and unique sports books I have ever read. The book starts out by telling the story of the Washington Redskins quarterback Joe Theismanm, and how his NFL carrer was ended by Lawrence Taylor hitting him from his blindside and pining his leg under him. Then Lewis explained why this event made it so that the left tackle position is one of the most important in football. Lewis then introduced the main character of the story, Michael Oher. It starts out telling the story of how Michael Oher found Briarcrest Christian school, when Big Tony took Michael and a boy named Steven there. At first, Big Tony had no luck convincing the school that Steven and Michael should be enrolled in the school, until the football coach saw Big Mike. But the football coach had his work cut out for him. I find it amazing that Mike started out with a 0.6 GPA and an IQ of 80. This makes me think that the football coach is very good with words. It then tells about why the director of Briarcrest decided to allow Mike to enroll: "This wasn't a thing you did for he Briarcrest football team, this was a thing you did because it was right." (54) Beause of Simpsons decision, it meant that Michael had a chance to make something of himself and one day play in the NFL.
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This sounds like a great book. Its going to be hard for that coach with a kid whose gpa is .6. Hopefully he doesn't get hit in his blindside. I wonder if Big Mike is as big as me?
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a very insperational story. I really like the fact that you included statistics in you blog post. My question to you is, Can you think of another athlete that has gone through this many obstacles? If so, Who?
ReplyDeleteI have to go along with Andrew. I like it how you put his statistics into your blogpost. It shows how someone can go from nothing and keep trying until something good happens. ie. getting enrolled into a good school. My question is have you seen the movie? If so, do you think it would have been more beneficial if you didn't see it? If not, have you been impacted in anyway so far?
ReplyDeleteI hope that you are liking this book so far. I know that I enjoyed it when I saw the movie. I wonder why Michael even stayed in school when he had a .6 gpa? How would you compare the book to the movie?
ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of characters in this book, but it sounds good. How can the guy get into college with a .6 gpa? aren't there rules about that?
ReplyDeleteThis does sound like a very inspirational story. I think that knowing how the story ends makes readers appreciate all of the struggles and obstacles people face.
ReplyDeleteI also liked the quote that you chose; it has a great message!