100% serious. How can you think I'm kidding? I'm guessing you're someone who has not been the victim of a hoax before.
Would love it if he slipped in the draft to your Texans!!!!!!! Chance of that happening...less than 1% Chances of that story of M Teo being duped by an online poser...less than 1% Chance of ND and the athletic department lying...almost a certainty The question is why??? This guy has had such a remarkable collegiate career...why lie and jeopardize your character/name??? to help garner some votes for the Heisman?? i dont know...just is so bad...ND alums should be embarrassed. The school tried plotting together a bogus story in hopes to make this go away...wouldve been better if they just said they lied to help garner more votes...The truth shall set ND free...
This is sounding exactly like I thought it was. Big man on campus gets into online relationship. Big man on campus finds out online relationship is fake. Big man on campus continues the lie because admitting he was duped is too embarrassing. People passing scorn and judgment onto this guy need to chill. Edit: the gay cover-up from my Mormon family, Catholic School, and football locker room makes all the more sense.
Really doesn't make any sense. So who is the chick and what was her motivation to spend all this time to fool someone. Also, who told Teo that she died and how the heck did it end there? He wouldn't ask about her family, contact them? Makes no sense.
He was in an online relationship with a fake girl whose twitter was created by a family friend. It is way too fishy. Three years and he has never even visited the girl?
Please explain these quotes from the article for me. "They started out as just friends," Te'o's father, Brian, told the Tribune in October 2012. "Every once in a while, she would travel to Hawaii, and that happened to be the time Manti was home, so he would meet with her there." Te'o and Kekua meet after Stanford's 45-38 victory over Notre Dame in Palo Alto, according to the South Bend Tribune: "Their stares got pleasantly tangled, then Manti Te'o extended his hand to the stranger with a warm smile and soulful eyes." Kekua, a Stanford student, swaps phone numbers with Te'o.
Because you obviously didn't read the part where they "met" at a Notre Dame vs. Stanford game, or "saw each other" in Hawaii, or when they "talk" on the phone when the Lennay was actually a dude's voice, or the part where her time of death is ambiguous, or when they "first met" on Twitter on 10/10/2011 after supposedly meeting each other the year before. Nothing in this story adds up. It's all a fabrication and that's pretty obvious when Te'o can't even get the story straight. The only people who would believe Te'o are the ToyCen-type conspiracy theorists. Oh wait, I get it. You're hoaxing me that you're this gullible to believe this hoax. Spoiler
Back from the dead... <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>It isn't fair to drag Reagan and Troy into this.. a lot of truths and myths need to be addressed here, and they will be at noon PST tomorrow</p>— L K (@LennayKay) <a href="https://twitter.com/LennayKay/status/291753867438325760" data-datetime="2013-01-17T03:48:37+00:00">January 17, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Manti Teo wrapped his arms around his girlfriend as many times as he did the Alabama running backs! :grin: (BTW, if you really wanna laugh check out http://teoing.tumblr.com)
I'm not buying his story. A football star does NOT need to go online to get a girlfriend. (or a boyfriend, if that's what he wants) He will have many of whatever he wants available to him. He's not going to chat desperately online with someone he's never seen like so many "average" people do. If he lied about meeting her in person, and we know he did, then he's likely to be lying about other things. I can understand - which doesn't mean agree with - the idea of staying on the DownLow with a fake long-distance girlfriend. But then why kill off that useful character? Oh yeah, because you wanted some publicity and a sob story for the Heisman you didn't end up getting. I cannot believe he and his friends didn't think somebody would look into this and see the holes in the story. I feel bad for the poor girl whose pictures were used; that has to have been weird.
I can buy into people falling in love without ever meeting. Happened a lot during the Civil war through letters. and happens a lot now online. soi much so that wives leave their husbands and vice versa without ever having met the person on line. So it's possible. And I think possible with intelligent people. Writing is very powerful. And writing without consequence even more so. And I do think it plausible to have a death to get out of it if it goes to far ( lieing ). Think there is even a documentary about a guy who goes to meet his fictitious love only to find out she's married with children. Interesting movie. but anyway, I see it all as plausible. And not nearly as unlikely as people think. I have not read the story for inconsistencies, but on a surface level, totally plausible.
(BTW, if you really wanna laugh check out http://teoing.tumblr.com)[/QUOTE] that's just wrong dude. like come on now. the internet is corrupting our Human Civilization
Here's my contribution. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/58226365@N00/8389113388/" title="Manti-Te'o by Yonkerbonk, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8330/8389113388_4beab45cbc.jpg" width="379" height="500" alt="Manti-Te'o"></a>
I don't quite understand the gay cover-up theory. If he was gay and wanted to cover it up, he just wouldn't tell anyone?
<script src="http://player.espn.com/player.js?&playerBrandingId=4ef8000cbaf34c1687a7d9a26fe0e89e&pcode=1kNG061cgaoolOncv54OAO1ceO-I&width=576&height=324&externalId=espn:8852059&thruParam_espn-ui[autoPlay]=false&thruParam_espn-ui[playRelatedExternally]=true"></script> I don't know...most beautiful girl I've ever met?? This interview was from Oct. 2. Also there have been mentions of him saying he visited her at the Stanford game.
