Michael Lewis's The Blind Side may be the best sports book I've ever read. It does a couple of important things: a) it explains football beautifully, making it comprehensible at a strategic and technical level to people like me, who were only ever casual fans, b) it gets into the game's history without being boring, and c) explains the culture of the game, in this case, college football and the rooting interests that surround it. It's also an extraordinary story. The way a privileged white family opened their home to a broke, illiterate, hugely disadvantaged black kid is totally remarkable, and moving. But I really hope the movie has the guts to explore the boosterism that may have motivated the Tuohys pretty remarkable actions (they had deep ties to Ole Miss, where Mike Oher eventually went to school): that part of the story is as true as their generosity, and adds some real spice and friction to a story, as well as a connection to the cultural and historical narrative of the book.