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Deadspin: (Notre Dame football player) Manti Teos Dead Girlfriend is a hoax
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Coldnoodle
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But then he doesn't get the national publicity.
But then he'd be expected to see other girls eventually. Edit: ^^^ that too
Joel Was Right
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Good question
I grew up in the most conservative of conservative protestant denominations - Church of Christ (not be confused with United Church of Christ, which is the most liberal of protestant denominations), and even I didn't hear this nonsense. We didn't let women lead prayers!
When life gives you lemons, you make bullshitade.
Why would Manti's brother claim that they had met in person in Hawaii, though?
Gash, are you a ND fan?
jordan0386
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Too easy.
LOL Why is there a press conference for this? He is clearly improvising for half of these questions. What the fuck does he know? They must seriously be hiding something for whatever reason. Yes, the situiation is odd, but honestly, making it this big of a fuss is even stranger. There has to be something behind this all.
I grew up in a Southern Baptist church, and I've never heard that term either. Just "homosexuality".
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Because they're trying to make him sound like the victim, but he's probably involved in it.
CommonSense
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The shittalkers in the NFL are going to eat this guy's heart next year...
Talladega Knight
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i swear he just had a mini stroke in mid sentence
If only Kevin Garnett played football.
Dude Abides
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Choking up wtf.
LongDongJunon
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Tears?
Really?
Really?
Hobbestetrician
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"I bet your girlfriend WAS a box of Honey Nut Cheerios!"
He would've trashtalked kickers and (non australian) punters.
Dude Abides
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Has anyone asked him specifically whether he knows how the accounts of face to face meetings came about?
LQX
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Yep, this is going to haunt him all the way to the NFL.
Nope, it's only the AD of Notre Dame. Not even clear if/when Te'o will be answering questions.
JustProgress
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The AD cried? Wat
mightynine
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Oh he's deferring to Te'o on that. It depends what the meaning of met is.
We going Bill Clinton with this?
Why is that guy crying? Lol
Yeah, it was pretty pitiful.
Paraphrasing, "The most trustworthy person that I've ever met, can no longer trust again. That's the true tragedy in this" was what he said after he managed to compose himself from crying.
mightynine
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The Panera iced tea is that good!
BobTheFork
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The NFL will explain everything?
Bluecondor
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If these details from the Deadspin story are accurate, the "online" alibi has absolutely no credibility:
"Nov. 28, 2009: 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.
2010-2011: Te'o and Kekua are friends. "She was gifted in music, multi-lingual, had dreams grounded in reality and the talent to catch up to them" (South Bend Tribune). "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."
I can't tell from the Deadspin story - when was the first time Kekua was mentioned in a newspaper story? And - even if the 2009 story is inaccurate, the quote from his own father makes it impossible to believe that it was an online-only relationship.
Like pretty much everyone else in the thread, I just can't fathom why Manti Te'o decided to make this up.
"Nov. 28, 2009: 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.
2010-2011: Te'o and Kekua are friends. "She was gifted in music, multi-lingual, had dreams grounded in reality and the talent to catch up to them" (South Bend Tribune). "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."
I can't tell from the Deadspin story - when was the first time Kekua was mentioned in a newspaper story? And - even if the 2009 story is inaccurate, the quote from his own father makes it impossible to believe that it was an online-only relationship.
Like pretty much everyone else in the thread, I just can't fathom why Manti Te'o decided to make this up.
CommonSense
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el retorno
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A lot of people have a theory
arts&crafts
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el retorno
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#impeachmanti
arts&crafts
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Why? She will make 15mil when she interviews him 1 on 1
Bluecondor
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LOL!
But, even if the secretly gay story is true, this still doesn't explain the lengths to which he went to make up details about the girlfriend. If he was trying to hide the truth about being gay, why wouldn't he just make up a story about a "girlfriend from home" and just leave it at that?
Think about it - if he really wanted to hide his sexuality, he could have asked a female friend to pose as his girlfriend on Twitter/Facebook. Who would ever question that?
Instead - he invents this story about the girlfriend dying of leukemia on the day that his grandmother died?
I can't wait to hear more about this story.....
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