Michael Oher, Carolina Panthers OT, not a big fan of 'The Blind Side'

SPARTANBURG, S.C. - When people first meet Michael Oher naturally they want to ask him about the 2009 hit movie "The Blind Side," which is based on his life as an underprivileged youth growing up in Memphis, Tennessee.
However, the Carolina Panthers starting left tackle would prefer to leave the notoriety he garnered from the film in the past.

As strange as that sounds to fans of the film, Oher is not a big fan of "The Blind Side."
He doesn't like the attention it has brought on him, saying that offensive linemen shouldn't be in the limelight.
"We just want to be under-the-radar, humble guys, just like to do our work and don't want to be noticed," Oher said. "When we're being noticed it's not a good thing, getting flags and things like that. ... You like to take the humble approach and let everyone else get the credit. If everyone else is getting credit we're doing our jobs."
Panthers center Ryan Kalil has spoken with Oher about the movie and says "Mike, (is) not a fan of the movie."
"The way they portrayed his youth as somebody who didn't know a lot about football and how lucky he got, just talking to Mike and getting to know his background, he maybe wasn't as clueless and he was portrayed in the movie," Kalil said.
"And he cares about his identity being about what he does as a football player, not in a movie that Hollywood makes. So I can understand it."
Of course, that hasn't kept Kalil, the team's resident jokester, from giving the 6-foot-4, 315-pound Oher some good-natured ribbing about the movie.
"When I tell him the actor that plays him looks identical to him, well, he really, really appreciates that," Kalil said tongue-in-cheek.
Right tackle Mike Remmers said he's taken to imitating some of the characters in the movie, too.
"Mike just sort of laughs it off," Remmers said. "He knows we're all playing around."more info