Blind+Side+Meeting+1

__**Questions and Answers**__: 1. How does the author say that Lawrence Taylor affected football? - He says that Lawrence Taylor changed the left tackle position because now the tackles have to protect the quarterback's blindspot.

2. What does Tom Lemming do and what is odd to him about Michael Oher? - Tom Lemming chooses kids to play for All-American teams. Michael is considered odd because of his name, He played football for a small private school with no history of generating Division I college football talent and the school he played for does not usually have black players and no one in Memphis had anything to say about him.

3. What was Lemming’s idea that he came up with when he was 23 years old? - He decided he would travel the country and meet the top high school football players and decide which ones were the best.

4. What was strange about when Michael met Lemming? - Michael sat across from lemming and refused to speak and didn’t fill out any forms this has never happened to Tom.

5. What did Lemming think of Oher after they met? - He thought he was trouble. He thought of Oher as a number one draft pick in the NFL but there would be no way he was going to invite him to the Army All-American game.

__**SUMMARY:**__

We discussed what the concept of the blindside was in the NFL. Also, we discussed Michael Oher's early football career. We went over Michael Oher's relationship with Tom Lemming and how Lemming changed Oher's future around. In our group we went over our discussion questions about how Tom Lemming was a huge part of Michael Oher's success. Tom Lemming was a scout who traveled the country to search for the country's top high school player prospects. It is his job to decide who were some of the elite prospects in the country and Michael Oher was one of them. Although Oher was a big prospect, his biggest flaw was his childhood and how that can impact his future.