Post #3, pages 131-167

For this week I read chapters 6 and 7, pages 131-167. These chapters were about the time leading up to Michael realizing he was a football star and also told about some of the major events in his life leading up to playing college football. In chaper 6, it tells about how it took Michael awhile to get used to being a football star. This surprised me because Michael was getting calls and emails from college coaches across the country. After he started realizing how good he actually was, he started playing even better than he already was. Another turning point in Michaels life was getting a drivers license. This was a really big deal for him because no one in his family had ever had one. This is evident when Michael says: "No one in my whole family has ever had a drivers license."(143) But to do this, it would be harder than anyone thought. The first problem was he didn't even have a birth cirtificate. He also didn't have any other form of identification either, so they had to get a letter from his school. Once they got the proper forms of identification, Michael passed the test and got his license. Another turning point for him was when the Tuohy family adopted him and had him on their Christmas card. This was the first time Michael had a real family. Chapter seven was about how the college recruiters were nonstop in asking Michael to play football for them, bit in the end he decided to play at Ole Miss. It also told about the car accident that he got into, and how he threw out his arm to save SJ.