Ravens star Oher tells his side

"Americans who fell in love with the movie [Michael Oher] are going to love the real guy even more," says co-author [Don Yaeger]. "The Michael Oher I worked with is one of the sharpest, youngest guys I've worked with in years. And I've worked with everyone from Walter Payton...

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Main Authors the end of the movie, Oher (played by Quinton Aaron) is the Baltimore Ravens'2009 first-round draft pick Good thing his pixie-cute adoptive little brother, SJ (Jae Head), taught him the game of
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Published McLean USA Today, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, Inc 07.02.2011
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Summary:"Americans who fell in love with the movie [Michael Oher] are going to love the real guy even more," says co-author [Don Yaeger]. "The Michael Oher I worked with is one of the sharpest, youngest guys I've worked with in years. And I've worked with everyone from Walter Payton to John Wooden." A former editor at Sports Illustrated, Yaeger co-wrote Payton's Never Die Easy and Tug McGraw's Ya Gotta Believe, among other books. Two "misperceptions" bother Oher: "That he isn't intellectually capable. As Michael says, 'I'm not dumb, I just wasn't educated.' " He's not surprised Oher disagrees, because one of Oher's gifts is his ability to forget. "It's a gift," [Sean Tuohy] says, "because if anyone has the right to be mad, it's Michael."