Yeah, blindsided. Nothing personal word of the day. It is Tuesday, August 15, 2023. Has there ever been a word of the day on nothing personal in 867 episodes?

This is the most predictable word of the day we've ever had. It is the biggest story right now for me in sports. What happened yesterday when word came out that the dream, the fantasy that we have, the feel good story of the movie, the blind side, the academy award for Sandra Bullock who recently lost her partner to a devastating disease ALS.

The great story of Michael Orr, the football player, being brought from the dregs of the streets into a home of rich white people, making it to the NFL with this firecracker of a woman by his side and a loving brother and sister, a mixed family of happiness.

Except we've heard over the years that Michael Orr was never so happy about the blind side. We heard that he didn't like all the attention.

He wasn't necessarily pleased to be portrayed as a player or as a person who some would argue to see if special needs. Is there some sort of intellectual disability here?

Seems a little slow, but it was a movie. That was the drama. That's what brought us in so many times we watch movies and we want it to be real.

The biggest example in my lifetime of a movie that we all watched and said, oh my god, I get it now. Oh no, it's not all true.

It was the Oliver Stone movie JFK. If you've never seen that or don't remember it, that's a movie that came out and we said, all right, no more discussion about Lee Harvey Oswald and whether or not he acted alone.

We've got this cleared movies are based on true stories. That's the legal word that's used. It's this is based on true story. Some of it happened. Some of it didn't.

And then in little word letters, it gets absolutely blown over on the credits. Some scenes have been fictionalized or dramatized for the purpose of time or for the purpose of entertainment.

But the blind side, we said, don't know this is all good and how upset we were when Michael or said, well, that's not me. That's not really a good reflection of me, but we were okay living with that.

But then yesterday shattered Michael or claims that he was never adopted by the two E family that the entire premise of the movie was fake.

And instead he was Brit need.

When I read it, I couldn't believe it. Brit need is a verb conservatorship. What her father did to her. She's now free query. Should she be free? If she is free, is it helpful? How she doing? House or mental state? Another topic. Another time conservatorships are a legal way of protecting people from themselves.

Conservatorships are when a court decides that somebody needs to control somebody else's finances or the skill and talent that they have that can be monetized will be squandered.

Michael or is claiming in a lawsuit. He filed an actual petition in Tennessee in probate court saying, hey, the two E's never adopted me. And as a matter of fact, they tricked me into signing the document, which gave them all power over my finances and over any money I could get.

And once you know it, I signed away my life rights. And I didn't see one penny from the blind side and they've gotten rich.

Talk about striking a nerve. This was full operation when your tweezers hits the side. The red nose goes off and it doesn't stop. It gets jammed in the on position and you can't get that noise to stop if you know you know.

Because we couldn't stop talking about this story and reading about everything. And the family had no choice but to respond. In the absence of communication, the only voice would have been Michael or Anna's petition.

And the family immediately convened their PR group, their people, their crisis management team and said, okay, we need a three point plan. Sort of like a three point stands in football.

We need a three point plan. We got to get people talking. We're not going to have a young talk quite yet. But let's start with the dad. Sean. And then we got to get the sun because the sun's a sympathetic character is best friends with Michael.

That part's true. Let's make sure we get it out there. That yes, it is true. That it's a conservatorship. But the reason is that you can adopt somebody 18 and older.

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