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Deadspin: (Notre Dame football player) Manti Te’o’s Dead Girlfriend is a hoax

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He says that he met her. Her photos are all over everywhere.

How does he not put that together and say 'yo that's not my fake-gf'?

The only way is if the girl in the photos is IN on the hoax and is the one that posed as her the whole time (this incriminating herself by comin forward).

So basically lol
 
Pimpwerx said:
Notre Dame is going all-in on this shit. I'd love to know what the truth is. I don't believe he didn't know. PEACE.
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Just from the timeline, sounds like ND found out about this between the end of the season and the MNC game, and decided to sit on it so as not to screw with their star player and their chances of winning. (lolol)

That didn't work, and now they're realizing it makes them look bad, so they're going a different route. If they were smart with paper trails and such, they might have plausible deniability for when Manti eventually caves and admits he did it himself.
 
At least now Te'O is a draft candidate and not a college player so hopefully the media won't coddle him whenever he speaks. I want to hear him try and answer about the Stanford meeting.
 
This story is so fascinating to me and I feel that it is just going to get more so as time goes on.

I said much earlier in the thread that when I was reading the article I felt it was about to come to the conclusion that Te'o is gay and concocted the whole girlfriend story with his lover (Tuiasosopo).

If, IF, it turns out that he made it up to hide his homosexuality, this story may indeed become one of the most important to come from the sports world in decades. Creating this story, perpetuating the myth, using it to enhance exposure for both himself and his team, garnering undeserved sympathy and outpouring of affection is despicable and deplorable.

HOWEVER, this would open up a very large and important discussion about homosexuality in sports. Te'o is a Mormon at a Catholic university playing football, he has not exactly ever been in an environment that would allow him to be gay.

Unfortunately, if this was all a hoax created by Te'o, he would be a terrible messenger for that conversation. He would be shouted down as a liar and for having taken advantage of so many people that it would eclipse the conversation that needs to be had as to WHY he did what he did. I have thought an athlete was going to come out for quite some time and I don't it want to be a reluctant athlete like Te'o.

If, IF, this is indeed what happens going forward I hope we are able to separate the shame he should feel for letting this hoax get so large and not shame him for actually being gay.
 
Again from the deadspin article


That photo hadn't appeared on the internet—at least, not to Reba's knowledge. She had taken it in December 2012 and sent it directly to an old high school acquaintance. The two hadn't talked since graduation, but the classmate, whom Reba remembered fondly, contacted her on Facebook with a somewhat convoluted request: His cousin had been in a serious car accident, and he had seen her photos before and thought she was pretty. Would she be so kind as to take a picture of herself holding up a sign reading "MSMK," to put in a slideshow to support the cousin's recovery? (He didn't explain what MSMK meant, and Reba still doesn't know.) Baffled but trusting, Reba made the sign and sent along the photo.

And now here it was on a dead girl's Twitter profile. After googling Lennay Kekua's name, Reba began to piece things together. She called up the classmate. He expressed alarm, Reba told us later, and "immediately began acting weird." "Don't worry about it," he told her. Moments after the phone call, Reba's picture was removed from the @LoveMSMK Twitter profile. Then, in a series of lengthy phone calls, Reba told us everything she knew about the classmate, a star high school quarterback turned religious musician named Ronaiah Tuiasosopo.
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The picture that was attributed as being the dead gf was acquired by Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, who is Te'o's an acquaintance of Te'o. The only explanation is that Ronaiah is the hoaxer. And even that doesn't fit since Te'o has already claimed to have met the girl in person so many times.


Hobbestetrician said:
This story is so fascinating to me and I feel that it is just going to get more so as time goes on.

I said much earlier in the thread that when I was reading the article I felt it was about to come to the conclusion that Te'o is gay and concocted the whole girlfriend story with his lover (Tuiasosopo).

If, IF, it turns out that he made it up to hide his homosexuality, this story may indeed become one of the most important to come from the sports world in decades. Creating this story, perpetuating the myth, using it to enhance exposure for both himself and his team, garnering undeserved sympathy and outpouring of affection is despicable and deplorable.

HOWEVER, this would open up a very large and important discussion about homosexuality in sports. Te'o is a Mormon at a Catholic university playing football, he has not exactly ever been in an environment that would allow him to be gay.

Unfortunately, if this was all a hoax created by Te'o, he would be a terrible messenger for that conversation. He would be shouted down as a liar and for having taken advantage of so many people that it would eclipse the conversation that needs to be had as to WHY he did what he did. I have thought an athlete was going to come out for quite some time and I don't it want to be a reluctant athlete like Te'o.

If, IF, this is indeed what happens going forward I hope we are able to separate the shame he should feel for letting this hoax get so large and not shame him for actually being gay.
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Agreed. Especially since he is a Mormon (am I right on that?) and is attending a Catholic School. Together with being a football player would make the pressure enormous to stay in the closet.
 
He truly goes all in on that, he left no fucking wiggle room for him, why is he tying his career to that story?
This shit is fucking bizarre.
zyxwvu4321 said:
I'm not watching it, but this presser sounds like a trainwreck. Is it a trainwreck?
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It's just fucking weird, like surreal weird, I never seen anything like it.
 
I H8 Memes said:
Again from the deadspin article




The picture that was attributed as being the dead gf was acquired by Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, who is Te'o's an acquaintance of Te'o. The only explanation is that Ronaiah is the hoaxer. And even that doesn't fit since Te'o has already claimed to have met the girl in person so many times.
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When Te'o said he met her he meant online....according to ND.
 
"They started out as just friends," Brian Te'o said. "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. But within the last year, they became a couple.

"And we came to the realization that she could be our daughter-in-law. Sadly, it won't happen now.""
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There's no way that describes an online only relationship.
 
I H8 Memes said:
Again from the deadspin article




The picture that was attributed as being the dead gf was acquired by Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, who is Te'o's an acquaintance of Te'o. The only explanation is that Ronaiah is the hoaxer. And even that doesn't fit since Te'o has already claimed to have met the girl in person so many times.
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ND confirmed it was online only.
 
Going to bed. When I awake I want an OJ style chase to have occurred and footballs to be used as alternatives to gunfire.
 
vas_a_morir said:
So say he's gay, as that one post seems to imply...

and he lied about his GF, and things got so out of control. It might explain why none of his closest friends spilled the beans. And I could see how this all happened, too. He seriously had to keep going with the lie.

This is interesting, and I'd say the gay theory is the first one to work to explaining this. Perhaps ND would expel him for being a practicing homosexual if it was discovered?
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A practicing homosexual? As opposed to an ethnic homosexual?
 
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