Nick Saban Refused To Wear LSU Clothes In The Movie "The Blind Side"

During his weekly radio show on Thursday, Alabama head coach Nick Saban was asked about the time he played himself in the movie The Blind Side, which was about the recruitment of former Ole Miss offensive lineman Michael Oher.

Saban, who recruited Oher when he was the head coach at LSU, had to be convinced to do the movie and only did so as long as he wasn't wearing any LSU clothes. Per SECCountry.com:

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“I did no acting in The Blind Side. It was not considered acting. They gave me a script, the director gave me a script. I didn’t want to be in the movie because I was the coach here (Alabama), and I was the coach at LSU in the movie so I thought the fans here would all get mad at me if I was the LSU coach in a movie.

“So I refused and Fred Smith, who was a pretty powerful guy with FedEx and all that, produced the movie and talked me into doing it. I told him I’d do it, but I’m not going to wear LSU clothes. He said ok.

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