The gentle giant, Michael Oher was fined $5,000 by the NFL for a skirmish last week against the Cleveland Browns. Oher received the fine for taking a swipe at an opposing player after that player drove Todd Heap off the line of scrimmage after a play was blown dead. Michael Oher stated that he would do the same thing again to protect his teammates.

If you thought his name sounded familiar, yet you are not a football fan, it may be because he was the player who’s life was chronicled in the movie, The Blind Side, which starred Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw, and was directed by John Lee Hancock. The 2009 movie has gone of to win several awards. Oher was portrayed as a gentle, kind hearted man, who was adopted by a white family, and raised to become one heck of a football player, as well as person.