Leigh Anne Tuohy: Now, ya'll would guess that more often than not, the highest paid player on an NFL team is the quarterback. And you'd be right. But what you probably don't know is that more often than not, the second highest paid player is, thanks to Lawrence Taylor, a left tackle. Because, as every housewife knows, the first check you write is for the montgage, but the second is for the insurance. The left tackle's job is to protect the quarterback from what he can't see comin'. To protest his blind side.
Leigh Anne Tuohy: There's a moment of orderly silence before a football play begins. Players are in position, lineman are frozen. and anything is possible. Then, like a traffic accident, stuff begins to randomally collide. From the snap of the ball to the snap of the first bones, closer to four seconds than five.
Leigh Anne Tuohy: Sean and I have been talkin' and Michael, if you're gonna accept a football scholarship we think it should be to Tennessee. And I promise that I will be at every game cheerin' for you.
Michael Oher: Every game.
Leigh Anne Tuohy: Every game. But I will not wear that gaudy orange, I will not. It is not my colour wheel and I'm not gonna wear it.
Sean Tuohy: You really except Michael to lay down on the couch and talk about his childhood like he's Woody Allen or somethin'? I mean, Michael's gift is his ability to forget. He's mad at no one and he really doesn't care happen in the past.
Leigh Anne Tuohy: You're right.
Sean Tuohy: Excuse me? 'You're right'? How'd those words taste comin' out of your mouth?
Leigh Anne Tuohy: If you so much as set foot downtown, you will be sorry. I'm in a prayer group with the D.A., I'm a member of the NRA and I'm always packin'.
Leigh Anne Tuohy: If you so much as set foot downtown, you will be sorry. I'm in a prayer group with the D.A., I'm a member of the NRA and I'm always packing.
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