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Beyond the Dream: Baltimore Ravens' Michael Oher

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    NFL star preparing to play in Super Bowl XLVII

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Before Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle Michael or.

Playing in tomorrow's Super Bowl game is an impossible dream that Hollywood could not -- imagine are scripted.

Or the subject of the movie the blind side.

-- his place in the biggest game of his life through hard work scholastic achievement and -- His road to success was not easy BC was growing up in a -- environment and a dysfunctional family.

A year ago I met this remarkable man and now that he's stepping into the top game of his life.

We'd like to show you his story once again.

Michael war.

Living life beyond injuring.

It.

Michael brewer doing -- he loves -- meeting -- talking to children.

At prince street school in Salisbury Maryland.

Michael takes advantage of every moment to encourage students to stay in school focus on getting a good education and pursue their dream.

If you guys and one of them.

Make it -- -- became due to bad things you have through.

Do what's right I always stayed away from the negative people in the know he put Nokia bad things I stayed away from those thousand.

-- I wasn't I have to gives an NFL I was going to be something so.

You know I do think that I was gonna you know be a positive influence.

In.

In the -- -- you know in the world.

Posing with students holding his best selling book I beat the odds Michael was on a mission.

He knows that some of the kids he meets are experiencing the same kind of heartbreak and pain that he endured as a child.

I didn't have anybody telling me I need to go to school.

I didn't see anybody going to worked every day out in asylum on this among neighborhood so no I I don't wanna get caught up in the cycle grown up.

Dropping out of school in the evolved and -- -- -- -- it is.

Book Michael tows his old story of growing up in a tough public housing project in Memphis Tennessee.

One of twelve children living with -- single parent mother who was constantly battling drug addiction.

Her failures -- Michael and his siblings to be separated and said the various Foster homes.

He recalls how different caught his early life had become there's still.

Gordon raised just -- -- their mothers.

That's another ten no farther in your home in your moment his own euros then you're raising yourself.

Michael remembers when he was just seven years old he watch Michael Jordan.

Play in the NBA finals against the Phoenix Suns that game in that moment stuck with him and made a lasting impression.

I just want to as some -- that look up to me.

-- like they're about it looked up so don't you know these professional athletes now that he's accomplished his dream of becoming an NFL player for the Baltimore Ravens.

Michael enjoy serving as a role model to children.

Who are growing up in similar circumstances.

Unlike the movie the blind side which depicts -- Michael as a slow learner and -- learned about the game of football in real life.

Michael has been playing -- -- he was a young boy.

And is always had a thirst for education.

But admits he needed a lot of help academically to get into Ole miss.

The film also tells a wonderful story of Michael's relationship with the two -- family here's.

A white family adopting a black child.

And accepting.

You as their family you accepting -- mr.

-- what does that say about the racial divide in America it's not about black and white.

Nobody reached out -- -- it's always reached out.

Just for them so take somebody come from the neighborhood I came from -- I don't know if I would -- six but you know I repaired just.

-- software post like that.

There's so -- what -- or know people they are insisted open their homes and to trust.

Some believe in me and it trusts that I was gonna do the right thing.

Doing the right thing the Baltimore Ravens face the Sanford Cisco 49ers tomorrow in the Super Bowl.

Michael or will be there covering Joseph -- goes blind side.

And no matter the outcome Michael -- will still be considered.

A champion.

But how I know Michael -- -- -- amazing Kelly so glad you did that story is a remarkable man we wish him all the best tomorrow and Watson.

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