When he received the call at first, Jamie didn't react, and finally remembered it when the other party prompted him.

It was the interior designer who helped him design the penthouse in the Hampshire Building.

Because Jamie's minimalist style concept was too advanced, he couldn't satisfy him with the drawings produced by several designers, and finally found this Anne Taussy.

The two have only met once, and the real estate agents behind them are docking.

This is probably the reason why the other party will have Jamie's phone number.

On the phone, Anne Tausi explained that the family had moved from Tennessee to New York six months ago, and that Jamie was the first client she received.

Inspired by Jamie's penthouse renovation scheme, she began to try to convince more clients to adopt this minimalist style.

At first, most customers were not interested in this, until "Percy Jackson" suddenly exploded, and the design became popular under the influence of celebrity.

Anne Tausi has made a name for herself and has recently become a senior partner at a design firm.

It was around this time that the Taussy family moved into their new home in New York and were ready to throw a celebratory party.

While drawing up the guest list, Anne sees the news of Jamie and Jordan's family in the newspaper and comes up with the idea of inviting Jamie to the party.

Jamie knew that the purpose of inviting him to the party must be more than just thanks, and instinctively wanted to decline.

Anne obviously knew this, too, so she spoke up first, admitting that she did have another purpose.

It turned out that Anne had a daughter, who was 15 years old.

Anne and her husband had a great deal of trouble getting their daughter to transfer from their old school to Constance High School.

As it happens, Anne knows that Jamie is also attending Constance High School.

"Mrs. Taussy, if you're just looking for some information about Constance High School, I can recommend you a blog—"

Before Jamie could say anything about his refusal, Anne explained:

"No, no, you misunderstood me. In fact, I also adopted a child, he is a black man, 16 years old, 6 feet 8 inches tall and weighs 110 kilograms. ”

Jamie wondered at first, shouldn't a normal person introduce his adopted son first?

Although it is impossible to guess without introduction, the vast majority of adopted children will have a tragic background, either being orphans, abandoned by their parents or unable to raise them.

First of all, what is the matter of height and weight?

However, when Anne reported the height and weight data of the adopted son, Jamie immediately reacted.

Isn't this kind of physical fitness a natural athlete template?

Immediately Jamie asked on the phone:

"Mrs. Taussy, does this adopted son of yours like to play?"

Anne was waiting for this sentence, and immediately replied happily:

"Of course."

Then Jamie finally remembered.

No wonder he had always felt that the name Anne Tausi was familiar before, and it turned out to trigger the "plot" of that movie.

To further confirm this, Jamie asked again.

"Does he like to play rugby?"

Anne's answer was somewhat unexpected.

"At first we thought it was like that, but when our family came to New York and we were about to pick a new school for him, he suddenly confessed to us that his favorite sport was basketball."

Now it's Jamie's turn not to be calm.

Come on, that's Michael Oher.

An influential star in the NFL.

Now you tell me he wants to play basketball?

As if to guess the doubts in Jamie's heart, Anne on the other end of the phone immediately explained:

"Michael was a poor child, his mother was an addict, his father was nowhere to be found, and before we met him, he had moved from home to more than a dozen host families, often sleeping on the streets, digging through the trash cans to fill his stomach."

"Usually black kids from this kind of family have serious violent criminal tendencies, but Michael is an exception, he's introverted and very kind, and I can assure you that he's never done anything illegal."

"Actually, you can probably guess from his name that his idol is Jordan, and the reason why he chose football before is very simple, because this is the most common choice of all poor black kids, isn't it?"

Of the four major professional sports leagues, rugby is the most popular.

The annual Super Bowl halftime show is known as the American Spring Festival Gala.

However, this is not the main reason why poor black kids like Michael choose the NFL.

The real reason is that the first team of football has 11 players, the first team of baseball has 9 players, the first team of ice hockey has 6 players, and the first team of basketball has only 5 players.

For poor black children, rugby is the safest choice.

After all, each team needs more people, and the probability of being selected is also high.

The greatest risk for the poor is to be poor for the rest of their lives

And the cost of trial and error for the poor is always the highest.

"Mrs. Taussy, so you're also supporting Michael's switch to basketball, right?"

Jamie asked tentatively.

The subtext of the words is that if Michael plays football according to his original trajectory, he will at least reach the NFL's top left tackle in the future.

If you go to basketball, no one knows what the future holds.

At least in Jamie's opinion, if Michael can reach a team blue-collar position in the NBA in the future, then this decision is not a loss.

It's true that the NFL is more influential and lucrative than the NBA, but that's only at the league and team level.

When it comes to players, NFL players are inferior to NBA players in terms of career length and salary level.

is still the simplest truth, 5 people in basketball and 11 people in football, the total salary is so much, and the money that is evenly distributed to each person is naturally less.

Coupled with the fact that the NFL is more confrontational, athletes are more prone to injury and have shorter careers.

So as far as the player is concerned, being able to get out of the NBA is definitely more profitable than being out of the NFL.

But that's not really why Jamie asked Annie this question.

Because Jamie knows something outside of the "plot", to be precise, the follow-up of the story.

Compared to the heartwarming story of the Taussy family adopting Michael and raising him to become an NFL superstar, what happened later was less heartwarming.

Michael accused the Taussy family years later of cheating on him as a bloodsucker lying on top of him.

The Taussy family said they didn't make much money from Michael at all, and they always thought of Michael as family.

For Jamie, it doesn't matter what is right or wrong.

This kind of thing is all too common, and it is understandable for the Taussy family to adopt Michael as an "investment".

Now it's time to test the investment vision of the Taussy family.

Annie's answer will determine whether or not Jamie will go to the Taussy family's party.