![]() ![]() ![]() Our protagonist turns out to be the priceless combination of size, speed, and agility necessary to guard the quarterback's greatest vulnerability: his blind side. In THE BLIND SIDE, Lewis shows us a largely unanalyzed but inexorable trend in football working its way down from the pros to the high school game, where it. The second force is the evolution of professional football itself into a game where the quarterback must be protected at any cost. Their love is the first great force that alters the world's perception of the boy, whom they adopt. ![]() What changes? He takes up football, and school, after a rich, Evangelical, Republican family plucks him from the mean streets. When we first meet him, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or any of the things a child might learn in school such as, say, how to read or write. The young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story will one day be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football League. ![]() By the author of the bestselling Moneyball: in football, as in life, the value we place on people changes with the rules of the games they play. ![]()
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