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The Blind Side Page #8
You betcha, buddy.
Congratulations on gettin' hired.
Thank you, Ma'am.
Ole Miss is my dream job.
You're coming a little late to the party
and we're diehard Rebels
so I'm gonna give you
a frickin' road map.
- All right?
- Got it.
LSU is out. Everybody knows
Saban's going to the NFL.
I don't wanna name names, but on
Michael's first two recruiting trips
somebody took him to a tittybar.
- That's terrible.
- Tell me about it.
He had nightmares about it for weeks.
So when he comes to visit
I want you to feed him Italian -
and I want you to take him to a movie -
not Chainsaw Massacre
because he'll just cover his eyes -
and get him in bed by ten.
- You got it?
- Yes ma'am.
- All right.
- What about Tennessee?
It breaks my heart but they're still
in the hunt.
I heard that kid can really
pepper the gumbo.
He's his daddy's boy.
- You ready?
- Let's do it.
All right.
Mike, do you love barbecue?
I tell you what, Mike.
You can go to a gas station
and get best barbecue,
you ever got in your life.
It's a wonderful place to live,
fried catfish,
all the good food
that we love to eat
and it's not good for us
as football players,
you're gonna have it there, Mike.
I promise.
And for you, SJ,
this is what I can do.
At Ole Miss we have the grove
by the stadium.
in front of thousands of people.
It is a sacrad ritual. And I'm in front.
Seen it a thousand times.
Ever seen it from the front
of the line?
Next year, you and me;
leading the team.
Tennessee offered to let me run
on the field and flip the coin.
I'll throw in a sideline pass.
Have you decided yet, Michael?
No, Miss Sue.
But you like Tennessee?
It's a good school.
Not at the academic level of Ole Miss,
but they have an outstanding
science department.
You know what they're famous for?
They work with the FBI
to study the effects of the soil
on decomposing body parts.
What's that mean?
Well when they find a body, the police
want to know how long it's been dead.
So the fine folks at Tennessee
help them out.
They have a lots of body parts.
Arms and legs and hands -
from hospitals and medical schools.
And you know where they store 'em?
Right underneath the football field.
So, while it's fine and dandy,
to have 100,000 fans cheering for you,
the bodies you should be worried about
are the ones right under the turf.
Set to poke up through the ground
and grab you.
But it's your decision where you wanna
play ball.
Don't let me influence you.
All the other teachers are on board,
I don't know what your problem is.
I'm sorry.
I will not give a student a grade
he, or she, doesn't deserve.
What does he have to do to "deserve" that?
Right now Michael is doing C minus,
D plus work.
His best chance at improvement
is the written essay
at the end of the year.
It counts a third of the grade.
Well that's it. We're sunk.
Why don't you write about
"Great Expectations"?
You're a lot like Pip.
I mean he was poor, he was an orphan
and someone kind of found him.
You should be able to relate to that.
Fine, let's go through the reading list.
But you're gonna have to pick one, Michael.
"Pygmalion"...
"A Tale of Two Cities".....
"The Charge of the Light Brigade"...
"Half a league, half a league,
half a league onward"
I love that one.
He loves it.
Why don't you do this
and I'll watch basketball?
Okay.
"All in the Valley of Death rode
the six hundred."
They named LSU's stadium Death Valley
because of this story.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, was writing
about LSU-Ole Miss.
- You're kidding?
- No. It's a great story.
It's a poem.
"Forward the Light Brigade!"
It's like the offense.
"Charge for the guns he said."
That's the end zone.
"Into the Valley of Death rode
the six hundred."
"Forward the Light Brigade!
Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the soldier knew
someone had blundered."
Someone made a mistake?
Yeah, their leader, their coach.
But why would they go ahead
if they knew he messed up?
"Theirs not to make reply,
theirs not to reason why,
theirs but to do and die:
the six hundred."
They're all gonna die, aren't they?
Yeah.
That's really, really sad.
I think you just found something
to write about, Michael.
Courage is a hard thing to figure.
You can have courage based
on a dumb idea or mistake,
but you're not supposed
to question adults,
or your coach
or your teacher
because they make the rules.
Maybe they know best
but maybe they don't.
It all depends on who you are,
where you come from.
Didn't at least one of the six hundred
and joining with the other side?
I mean, Valley of Death
That's why courage is tricky.
Should you always do
what others tell you to do?
Sometimes you might not even know
why you're doing something.
I mean any fool can have courage.
But honor, that's the real reason
you either do something or you don't.
It's who you are and maybe
who you want to be.
If you die trying for
something important
then you have both
honor and courage
and that's pretty good.
I think that's what the writer
was saying.
That you should hope for courage
and try for honor.
And maybe even pray that the people
telling you what to do have some, too.
Kevin Lynn.
- Good job.
- Excuse me.
Matthew Nichols.
Michael's final GPA.
Got it off Paul's computer.
Jamie North.
He did it, Sean. He did it.
Wait a minute. You broke into
the principal's computer?
Michael Oher.
Where in the world did you find
a baby picture of Michael?
Scanned it off an Internet ad
for a toddler boutique.
Congratulations, Mike.
Michael, up top!
Way to go, bro!
All right, that's enough.
Young man...
All right. You're gonna be staying
And you're gonna be on the meal plan
so you're gonna be eating all the way over
here in Johnson Commons. Right there.
Johnson Commons. All you can
eat self-serve ice cream.
As much as you want?
Mm huh, that's how Mama put
on her freshman ten.
Stop it!
Hello?
This is Mrs. Tuohy.
They just want to ask you a couple
of questions, Michael.
You have nothing to hide.
Ms. Tuohy? Mr. Oher?
My name is Jocelyn Granger,
and I'm the Assistant Director
of Enforcement for the NCAA.
Please, call me Leigh Anne.
So, let's do this. Shall we?
Mrs. Tuohy, if you wouldn't mind
I'd prefer to speak with Michael alone.
- And how long is that gonna take?
- Awhile.
All right. Go.
Michael? Michael! I'll be waiting
for you in the lobby, All right?
I don't know, Sean. I just have
This woman is tough, tough...
Hold on.
Hey.
Were you aware that Coach Cotton
was accepting a job at Ole Miss?
No.
And that this job offer came after
you signed with them?
Sean Tuohy, your legal guardian
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