and being around a guy like matt birk who, you know, just to be around those type guys, guys like ray lewis, guys i grew up watching and knowing that i've always been a big fan of this game. i can't wait until september comes around, you know, hear that sound and all that type stuff. it's unbelievable. >> your story is unbelievable. when we come back we'll talk with michael more and talk more with michael about the family he mentioned, the touhy family who stepped up and helped him out and gave him just that push to get him over the hump. now again he is an nfl star and there's a move bit his life. >>> michael's grades have improved enough that he can go out for spring football in march. >> this team is your family, michael. when you look at him you think of me. how you have my back. are you going to protect the family, michael? >> yes, ma'am. >> s.j., you're going to want to get this. >> who's the big guy eating with your little brother? >> his big brother. >> i think what you're doing is so great. >> sandra bullock. >> you're changing that boy's life. >> no, he's changing mine. >> powerfu

and being around a guy like matt birk who, you know, just to be around those type guys, guys like ray lewis, guys i grew up watching and knowing that i've always been a big fan of this game. i can't wait until september comes around, you know, hear that sound and all that type stuff. it's unbelievable. >> your story is unbelievable. when we come back we'll talk with michael more and talk more with michael about the family he mentioned, the touhy family who stepped up and helped him out and gave him just that push to get him over the hump. now again he is an nfl star and there's movie about his life. >> i don't know if i'm an nfl star. >> close enough. that's what we're hearing. >>> michael's grades have improved enough that he can go out for spring football in march. >> this team is your family, michael. when you look at him you think of me. how you have my back. are you going to protect the family, michael? >> yes, ma'am. >> s.j., you're going to want to get this. >> who's the big guy eating with your little brother? >> his big brother. >> i think what you're doing is so great. >> sandra b

matt birk, who all he does is go to the pro bowl and just to be around those type guys, guys like ray lewis and, you know, guys i grew up watching and, you know, knowing that, you know, i've always been a big fan of this game, you know, i've -- it's always been can't wait, you know, until september comes around to hear that da-da-da sound, you know all that type stuff. it's unbelievable. >> yeah. your story's unbelievable. and when we come back, we're going to talk with michael more and talk more with michael about the family he mentioned, the tuoy family who stepped up and helped him out and gave him that, just that push to get him over the pump and now again is an nfl star and movie about his life. more with michael oher. >> i don't know if i'm an nfl star. >> that's what we're hearing. more with michael oher coming up. >>> michael's grades have improved enough he can go out for spring football in march. >> 1, 2, 3, 4 -- >> this team is your family, michael. when you look at him, you think of me. how you have my back. are you going to protect the family, michael? >> yes, i am. >> jay, you

joan lewis owned a night club, the fighter henry armstrong and later sugar ray robinson on the night club. and so they all felt very comfortable in a harlem. it was the black mecca. it was where you could go and meet langston hughes, wallace thurman, all of the poet's and rioters of the harlem renaissance. if they were not still around their friends were still around. and so it was a mecca, and i think it informed sugar ray robinson greatly. >> host: it gave him a certain confidence, not to mention a certain style. which he carried into the ring and popularized in a way that people haven't seen before. >> guest: right, right. >> host: do you think style is a form of resistance in the right setting? >> guest: great point. i do. i think the style that sugar ray robinson loved flowed out of arnold gingrich "esquire" magazine, and there was a jazz book that was printed in 1944, and it was huge amongst harlem, harlemites. it was kind of the first time that american readers really saw black and white musicians side by side on the printed page, and it was a huge success in harlem, and i thi

lewis gets upset to and young sugar ray known as walker smith in the army thinks officer is going to hit joe louis and sugar ray, like a panther jumped on the white army guard and there is a tussle. why anybody would want to tango with joe louis and sugar ray robinson. >> host: that says something about the times. >> guest: they're both taken to an officer to be disciplined but now the army has a pr nightmare on his throat with two black public-relations figures were engaged to tour the south but the army backed off and did not press charges but it cut to the bone of who each man was. joe louis was willing to accept the sugar ray robinson came from a different era and was not willing to accept it. joe louis could not keep emotional control of sugar ray robinson. he was more theory and more prone to react very quickly if his pride was insulted. >> that is an interesting comment to all ground breaking american athletes that they tend to not come from the south of the united states where they tend to be refugees and jackie robinson going to california were coming from california i was t

lewis gets upset, young sugar ray robinson, known as walker smith in the army, thinks that the officer is going to have joe louis, and sugar ray, like a panther, jumps on the white army guard and there is a tussle. now why anybody would want to tangle with joe louis and sugar ray robinson on the army base is unimaginable. >> host: well it says something about the times. >> guest: . and so they are both taken to an officer to be disciplined, but now the army has a puerto rico nightmare on its throat. what if the two black public relations figures who were being engaged to tour the south are arrested because they oppose segregation policies so the army backed off and didn't press any charges. but it really i think cut to the bone of who each man was. joe louis was willing to accept it. sugar ray robinson came from a different and new era and he wasn't willing to accept it. joe louis could not keep emotional control of sugar ray robinson. he was more theory and more prone to react very quickly if his pride was insulted. >> host: that's an interesting common thread of all ground breaking t