Thread: Homeless kid to NFL prospect

[size=13pt]Streets to star: Oher's stunning NFL journey[/size]

by Mark Kriegel

NEW YORK - Michael Oher has been here before. He was a tourist, about seven years old, as best he can recall.

"My foster parents took me," he said.

I ask how many foster homes he'd been in.

"About three or four," he says. "Something like that."

His arrival today, for a pre-draft briefing at the Times Square Westin, is more triumphant than anything that 7-year-old foster child could have imagined. Oher is wearing a Yankees cap, and I find myself wondering if it's a sign of allegiance, or merely a fashion statement.

"They were always on TV," says Oher, explaining his rooting interest.

In other words, when you're a kid living place to place, which is to say, no place at all, the team on national television affords you some consistency, maybe even something to believe in.

go get them kid =)

Thats a really great story, I want to get this guy now!!
lol