He compiled this information and began making a profit by creating a valuable list of these prospective college athletes. Lemming traveled constantly to see every top-tier high school football player in the U.S. Lewis writes about Lemming's process, as he rose to prominence as one of the premier football recruiting analysts. He goes out to meet him, feeling slightly mystified about the fact that no one seems to know who he is in his hometown. The next chapter describes the work of Tom Lemming, opening with him watching a tape of Michael Oher and being stunned. Taylor springs up and leaps away from the scene, seeming to feel, as Lewis describes it, sympathetic pain to the injury he just caused. In this particular scene, he comes down hard on Joe Theismann, breaking his leg and effectively ending his football career. Lewis focuses on the fearsome strength of linebacker Lawrence Taylor who consistently brings down quarterbacks. The story begins with a scene from a game between the New York Giants and the Washington Redskins.