It’s the type of narrative that, as a casual NFL fan, I was unaware of and one I had not seen captured in the wonderful NFL / America’s Game TV series. Lewis is able to tell a compelling story and educate the less knowledgeable football fan without coming off as condescending, The Blind Side works brilliantly as football history – Lewis traces the journey from Bill Walsh’s 49ers, through Lawrence Taylor and the rise of great linebackers to the realisation on the launch of free agency that teams would pay a lot more money for a left tackle than they were paying so far. Lewis is a wonderful writer whose books are informed, accessible and entertaining. Those gifts just happened to make him ideally suited to provide the now much more valued quarter back protection. The second is the story of a lost boy taken in by a white Southern family and given an opportunity to pursue his gifts that he seemed destined to be denied. The first story is the evolution of American football towards a passing game where quarterbacks rose in value, became targets and finally needed greater protection. If you haven’t then stop reading and go get the book. You have probably already read this book or seen the movie.
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