Manti Te'o made up dead girlfriend story?

[RR7]

http://deadspin.com/5976517/manti-t...source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

 

[3RA1N1AC]

weird story, first ive heard of any of it though

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

WTF? No way this report by Dead Spin is true. I'll be shocked if it is.

 

[santeesioux]

Really weird.

 

[NOVoodoo]

Notre Dame just issued a statement acknowledging that it was a hoax.

 

[RR7]

Notre Dame just issued a statement acknowledging that it was a hoax.

yeah, nice try ND.

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

Notre Dame just issued a statement acknowledging that it was a hoax.

Serious? Wow!

 

[porkchopexpress]

ND is claiming (I think) that Te'o was a victim in this. How could he not be in on it?

 

[Charcoal Filtered]

Sounds almost like.a.Nigerian scam. Notre Dame being an institute of high quality my ass.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

have they ever actually met? this is kinda funny

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I remember my first fictitious girlfriend. She was so hot!

 

[OSUBlazerfan]

I tried to skim the article and understand what was going on but i didnt really get it and dont have tim to really read. Would one of u kindly summarize in a few sentences? Why make up the story of a fake girlfriend? why wouldnt the girl whose picutre was used speak up about it? Why would his parents/friends be in on it to?

WTF?

 

[Nikolokolus]

WTF? No way this report by Dead Spin is true. I'll be shocked if it is.

That's a weird reaction. This girl never existed, that's been confirmed.

 

[PapaG]

Newest rumors

1) One of Teo's good male friends is involved in this, and...

2) that friend may be more than a friend, and this may have been a cover story that got out of control.

 

[PapaG]

This does help explain how terrible Teo played in the BCS title game, since apparently he told Notre Dame about it on 12/26/12.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

the game after my fake girlfriend died, i got some inside penetration, but my grief stopped me from sacking the all-american tight end

 

[3RA1N1AC]

he met the girl and then "dated" her online, cock pics en route

 

[PapaG]

 

[Nikolokolus]

Newest rumors

1) One of Teo's good male friends is involved in this, and...

2) that friend may be more than a friend, and this may have been a cover story that got out of control.

This is exactly what I was thinking. T'eo is a Mormon and the Tuiassiosopo kid is some devout christian ... plenty of reasons to invent a cover story about a girlfriend if that's what was going on.

 

[Sedatedfork]

This is exactly what I was thinking. T'eo is a Mormon and the Tuiassiosopo kid is some devout christian ... plenty of reasons to invent a cover story about a girlfriend if that's what was going on.

It's a plausible theory.

 

[Sedatedfork]

Check out this interview -- the very first three minutes. Very weird...

[video=youtube;ao109a38uVY]

At 2:50 or so -- she wrote love letters to him before every game? They would talk at night and in the morning and pray together???

 

[Nikolokolus]

You guys get that this guy is gay and invented a girlfriend right?

 

[speeds]

Bizarre.

 

[PapaG]

Umm...

[video]https://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=HKDus7QjJ_w[/video]

 

[3RA1N1AC]

doesn't add up, they talked for hours every night? umm that's a pretty elaborate "hoax" he's def in on it

and lol nik, is your gaydar going off or something?

 

[PapaG]

You guys get that this guy is gay and invented a girlfriend right?

Yeah, I'm pretty much convinced of it at this point. It can't be easy to be a great player and have to hide being gay from your teammates. Those of us who played sports know that the locker room is a complex place socially, and if you don't assimilate to the majority, you're a true outcast.

I think that the media started asking to meet his "girlfriend" when Teo suddenly became a national story because of his play and Notre Dame's play, and the only way out of it was to lie about her dying and just hoping it went away.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Umm...

[video]https://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=HKDus7QjJ_w[/video]

Best comment, Lennay Kekua is KEYSER SOZE

 

[3RA1N1AC]

the only way out is to kill her off? lol youve heard of breaking up before right?

 

[Nikolokolus]

doesn't add up, they talked for hours every night? umm that's a pretty elaborate "hoax" he's def in on it

and lol nik, is your gaydar going off or something?

Add it up.

Huge football star at a huge university with a devout Mormon background and a huge polynesian family (from my experience with my wife's "adopted Hawaiian family, that means they are all up in your business).

"Friend" in California that ends up making up a fake online presence ... friend is also polynesian with a devout Christian background and the same kind of huge "nosey" family.

So how do these two carry on a multi-year online romance without tipping off their families and the rest of the world that they are gay?

My guess is that people started to get suspicious, so these two decided to "kill" the fake persona and hoped that nobody would notice.

 

[Sedatedfork]

Hah -- here's another one. I remember listening to the post-interview comments in the car when this happened.

http://audio.wgr550.com/a/64902446/10-17-notre-dame-lb-manti-te-o-on-the-jim-rome-show.htm

About 4:45 for a few minutes.