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Welcome to the Daily Article podcast for Friday, August the 18th, 2023.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Ryan Denison.

Michael Orr had been on the radar of football fans for years because of his talent.

He became a household name, however, after The Blindside put his inspirational story on the screen for people everywhere.

However, in a recent petition filed by his lawyers

or claimed significant parts of that story were more fiction than fact. It should be noted that

anytime a person's life is turned into a film, certain license will be taken with the details.

Sometimes that simply makes for a more cohesive story. The recent adaptation of

Corey Ten Boom's The Hiding Place is one such example. However, at other times, as appears to be the

case here, those details make a substantial difference in how the main character is seen by those who

watch the movie. As Michael A. Fletcher notes in his ESPN

profile, Orr's first point of contention is that he was portrayed as a poor, virtually homeless,

an academically challenged teenager whom Sean and Leanne Tuey essentially rescued by helping him

catch up in school, learn to play football, and get

on the road to sports stardom. The truth, however, was a bit more complicated. As Fletcher describes,

or certainly led a hard-knock life growing up, but he also had the smarts, the pluck, and plenty

of help from the Tui's and others to rise above his circumstances,

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