Even if you think all those things, you are going to enjoy Michael Lewis’s book “The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game.” Your enjoyment, however, will be tempered by dismay about some of what you learn. Even if you think that if the Watergate and Iran-contra investigations had been really thorough they would have traced both scandals to connivings by college football coaches. Even if you wince at institutions of higher education engaging in the low practice of exploiting young, often black, men who emerge, after four years generating revenues for campus football factories, unscathed by education. The second storyline features Michael Oher, the former left tackle for the Ole Miss football team, and later right tackle for the Baltimore Ravens. Lewis follows Oher from his impoverished upbringing through his years at Briarcrest Christian School, his adoption by Sean (Michael Lewis's former schoolmate) and Leigh Anne Tuohy and on to his position as one of the most highly coveted prospects in college football.Even if you think football consists primarily of two regrettable elements of life - violence, punctuated by committee meetings, called huddles. This in turn caused teams to emphasize larger and more agile left tackles. Taylor's speed and power changed the role of outside linebacker to become a more attacking, aggressive position. Thus, they turn their backs to linebackers and other defenders pass rushing from the left side, creating a vulnerable "blind side" that the left tackle must protect.
Most quarterbacks are right-handed and in order to throw, they stand with their left shoulders facing down field. The first is an examination of how offensive football strategy has evolved over the past three decades in large part due to linebacker Lawrence Taylor's arrival in the 1980s and how this evolution has placed an increased importance on the role of the offensive left tackle. The book features two dominant storylines.
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game is a book by Michael Lewis released on Septemby W. Norton publishers, New York, London hardbound in ivory and black boards with pistashio green lettering along spine very good condition, appears unread dust jacket good with minor turning at edges (see pics).
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