This was where Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy lived with their two children and, for about a year, with Oher. The Tuohys took him shopping for clothes, helped him get a drivers license, bought him a pickup truck and arranged for tutoring that boosted his grades and made him eligible to play college fo
The lawsuit shocked many who saw the movie and led to a deluge of worldwide media coverage, with news stories often referring to Oher and the Tuohys as The Blind Side family. Were devastated, Sean Tuohy told a reporter from The Daily Memphian on the day the suit was filed. Its upsetting to
LEIGH ANNE AND SEAN TUOHY met at the University of Mississippi, known as Ole Miss, where he was a star basketball player and she was a cheerleader. They became modern Memphis royalty founding members of their evangelical church, owners of a private jet they called Air Taco. Sean made a fortune fro
In the movie, the country singer Tim McGraw plays a laconic but canny Sean Tuohy. Sandra Bullock won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Leigh Anne as a Southern tiger mom who makes Oher her cause. In one scene, she storms out of a lunch with her friends when one of them presses her on why she thi
which protects a right-handed quarterbacks blindside) and the economic resources that N.F.L. teams devote to the position, he discovered that an old friend, Sean Tuohy, his classmate at a New Orleans private school from kindergarten through 12th grade, had a potential N.F.L. left tackle living in his h
ry Black, and in a brief meeting with her son Michael and Leigh Anne, she slurs her words and wears a muumuu and a garish wig. Sean Tuohy, who pitched in as an assistant football coach at Briarcrest, is credited by Lewis with a magical ability to instill confidence in teenage boys. He was said to re
daughter of another family friend, the lawyer who represented them in the conservatorship, appeared in a small role in the movie. Sean Tuohy has seemed to suggest that he had the right to approve the script. I had to give them the rights to use our name, he said, while sitting at dinner with the
