Baltimore Ravens: Michael Oher video

I met Michael Oher and shot this video at his press conference yesterday in NYC. Homeboy is big. He talks about visiting Baltimore, going up against Baltimore's D in practice, and getting the call from Ozzie. I managed to drop "The Joe Flacco Show" into the conversation, which of course was my only reason for being there.

My favorite questions/answer was the first out of the gate.

Reporter: Do you like crab crake?
Oher: "Oh yeah, when I went on my visit there, I had shrimp."

Let's hope he understands football better than food.

Ravens: Michael Oher & Paul Kruger

The Ravens added two cast members to the Joe Flacco Show yesterday: a Mormon defensive end out of Utah who was stabbed during a gang fight last year, and a formerly homeless offensive tackle who once had a 0.30¹ GPA in high school.

I'm not hating on either of 'em, though. Both have tremendous stories of courage, et cetera, et cetera, especially Oher, who doesn't really care what you think anyway. Besides, Oher had a 3.7 GPA at Ole Miss, which isn't so bad. That's what I had at Villanova, and look at me: I grew up to be a blogger!

Anything is possible, Michael.

1: I've also seen it reported as 0.60. Perhaps the GPA was weighted for an honors or AP schedule.

Blogimore @ 2009 NFL Draft

New. York. City.

Putting a period after every word? How terribly lame and lazy of me.

Anyway, this weekend I'll be at Radio City Music Hall doing freelance work for Yardbarker. Caity, we're eating breakfast at wherever it is you work; Atlas Café is last year's news, Big Slice.

Ed. note: LIVE BLOG