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[MG310]

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.

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[Yaboosh]

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.....

He could have started this whole lie to hide his sexuality from his parents/family.

 

[cdyhybrid]

He could have started this whole lie to hide his sexuality from his parents/family.

And the school, and his church, and his team.

 

[mre]

Anyone bust out the "Manti Lied and Lennay Died" line, yet?

 

[mre]

From the CFB thread:

I expected more from Bleacher Report.

 

[Buckethead]

Posted? Jokes are flying:

http://media.lockerdome.com/uploads/5c3c88f245ba6ee34f428aa7f395f0f3_large

I will buy this t-shirt.

 

[squicken]

From the CFB thread:

Why is "You" on there? Are we supposed to research their stories now?

 

[cdyhybrid]

Why is "You" on there? Are we supposed to research their stories now?

I dunno. It's funny because apparently some non-media people alerted the Deadspin guy that something was fishy and convinced him to start digging.

I expected more from Bleacher Report.

Ahem, I think you mean CNN-Bleacher Report.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

I expected more from Bleacher Report.

Top 10 Fake Dead Girlfriend Stories Of All Time

 

[Pristine_Condition]

Anyone bust out the "Manti Lied and Lennay Died" line, yet?

No, but variations of the CJK5H line are going around, like MTK1FGF (I'm assuming FGF stands for "Fake Girlfriend.")

 

[Pristine_Condition]

Top 10 Fake Dead Girlfriend Stories Of All Time

Cool slideshow, bro.

 

[cdyhybrid]

No, but variations of the CJK5H line are going around, like MTK1FGF (I'm assuming FGF stands for "Fake Girlfriend.")

I think we should clarify the CJK5H(A) acronym for the sake of everyone in this thread.

 

[SerArthurDayne]

I think we should clarify the CJK5H(A) acronym for the sake of everyone in this thread.

Looks like Google does all the work. Although I was hoping it would autofill a pleasant surprise, you have to actually enter the search terms first.

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

OMG Internet.

 

[Pristine_Condition]

I think we should clarify the CJK5H(A) acronym for the sake of everyone in this thread.

Oh. Yeah. Forgot this wasn't the NCAAF thread! LOL

I think anybody can Google search the meme, and get a better explanation of it from that.

So CJK5H stands for "Craig James Killed 5 Hookers," in case anybody is curious and wants to look it up.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

From @dan_bernstein CBS 670 The Score (BY CRACKY!)

"Talked to a source who says #Swarbrick's lone goal was to insulate #ND and put any inconsistencies on #Teo, no matter how it came off."

 

[Phonomezer]

I keep reading the thread title as "Meatspin" ;_;

 

[Cyan]

Oh. Yeah. Forgot this wasn't the NCAAF thread! LOL

I think anybody can Google search the meme, and get a better explanation of it from that.

So CJK5H stands for "Craig James Killed 5 Hookers," in case anybody is curious and wants to look it up.

Allegedly!

Allegedly.

 

[MrJames]

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

http://i.imgur.com/eBFHG.jpg

God bless the internet.

 

[CB3]

From @dan_bernstein CBS 670 The Score (BY CRACKY!)

"Talked to a source who says #Swarbrick's lone goal was to insulate #ND and put any inconsistencies on #Teo, no matter how it came off."

I got that feeling when the most crucial questions asked were passed off to letting Teo explain.

 

[Branduil]

LOL

 

[DarkFlow]

If only Kevin Garnett played football.

We have ray Lewis, he can shit talk him on the field, and stab him off it,

 

[HalfBakedProphet]

This is totally bizarre but somehow it makes complete sense

 

[pieatorium]

lol

 

[alr1ght]

 

[BlazinAm]

Where are the boobs man?

 

[Pristine_Condition]

Just watched the highlights of the Notre Dame AD's press conference.

I can't be the only one who expected a statement from the family of Joe Paterno after all that, am I?

 

[bjb]

This is the most humiliating thing I have ever seen for a (future) professional athlete. LOL

 

[vas_a_morir]

This is the most humiliating thing I have ever seen for a (future) professional athlete. LOL

Easily. It's like this:

x1,000,000

I seriously, no joke, hope he doesn't kill himself over this.

 

[Barack Lesnar]

This is the most humiliating thing I have ever seen for a (future) professional athlete. LOL

It's unbelievable, you couldn't make this up, just an unbelievable story. I keep wanting to read every little bit of info that comes out too, it's really fascinating.

 

[Branduil]

Easily. It's like this:

x1,000,000

I seriously, no joke, hope he doesn't kill himself over this.

The fake girlfriend's fake brother will.

 

[BigAT]

Uh...?

Lennay Kekua – Manti Te’o's Fake, Dead Girlfriend – Was Real, Says Arizona Cardinals Fullback Reagan Mauia, Who Claims to Have Met Her

 

[Ermac]

 

[Patryn]

So, uh, Arizona Cardinals fullback Reagan Mauia is now saying that she actually is real and, uh, he met her.

Yeah.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

I'm not sure if it's just because it's night time and I'm by myself, but for some reason this part of the Deadspin story is freaking me out:

There was no Lennay Kekua. Lennay Kekua did not meet Manti Te'o after the Stanford game in 2009. Lennay Kekua did not attend Stanford. Lennay Kekua never visited Manti Te'o in Hawaii. Lennay Kekua was not in a car accident. Lennay Kekua did not talk to Manti Te'o every night on the telephone. She was not diagnosed with cancer, did not spend time in the hospital, did not engage in a lengthy battle with leukemia. She never had a bone marrow transplant. She was not released from the hospital on Sept. 10, nor did Brian Te'o congratulate her for this over the telephone. She did not insist that Manti Te'o play in the Michigan State or Michigan games, and did not request he send white flowers to her funeral. Her favorite color was not white. Her brother, Koa, did not inform Manti Te'o that she was dead. Koa did not exist. Her funeral did not take place in Carson, Calif., and her casket was not closed at 9 a.m. exactly. She was not laid to rest.

Lennay Kekua's last words to Manti Te'o were not "I love you."

 

[TheKaeptain]

Man this is just too much. WTF is wrong with CFB? If they had class they would be like the NFL with role models like Ray Lewis.

 

[iAmMaximus]

I don't even...

 

[vas_a_morir]

Uh...?

Lennay Kekua – Manti Te’o's Fake, Dead Girlfriend – Was Real, Says Arizona Cardinals Fullback Reagan Mauia, Who Claims to Have Met Her

what the fuck is going on

 

[Pristine_Condition]

Allegedly!

Allegedly.

Hey, I read it ON THE INTERNET, buddy. So it HAS to be true.

 

[iammeiam]

Uh...?

Lennay Kekua – Manti Te’o's Fake, Dead Girlfriend – Was Real, Says Arizona Cardinals Fullback Reagan Mauia, Who Claims to Have Met Her

This immediately makes me assume meeting her was a cover story agreed to should any doubt come up, prior to the Deadspin thing.

If you're going to do a hoax, have a distribution list saved of all the people you need to stop covering for you once it's found out. That's scamming 101!

 

[TangMeng]

Uh...?

Lennay Kekua – Manti Te’o's Fake, Dead Girlfriend – Was Real, Says Arizona Cardinals Fullback Reagan Mauia, Who Claims to Have Met Her

WHAT

A

TWIST

I don't know what to believe anymore

 

[MiamiWesker]

Sorry I didnt read the whole thread but can someone explain to me how in this day in age this was not figured out sooner. When the entire media was reporting a girl from stanford died didn't anyone from Stanford decide to check to make sure they didn't have a student die? How do they not say anything? How does nobody from Stanford say they have never met this girl? Then there is the media which is a joke, half the articles have conflicting stories, how do they not pick up on this?

 

[Korey]

So, uh, Arizona Cardinals fullback Reagan Mauia is now saying that she actually is real and, uh, he met her.

Yeah.

wtf

http://espn.go.com/college-football...ry-manti-teo-girlfriend-death-apparently-hoax

Reagan Mauia, an Arizona Cardinals fullback, said he believes Kekua existed because he met her in person when he and other Polynesian teammates and Pittsburgh Steelers star Troy Polamalu went to do charity work in American Samoa in June 2011.

"This was before her and Manti," Mauia said Wednesday evening. "I don't think Manti was even in the picture, but she and I became good friends. We would talk off and on, just checking up on each other kind of thing. I am close to her family. When she was going through the loss of her father, I was -- I offered a comforting shoulder and just someone to bounce her emotions off. That was just from meeting her in Samoa."

Mauia said Tuiasosopo -- whom Mauia believes is Kekua's cousin -- introduced the two. After the initial meeting, Mauia said he met her at an "after-party" for all of the athletes involved in the camp.

"She was tall," he said. "Volleyball-type of physique. She was athletic, tall, beautiful. Long hair. Polynesian. She looked like a model ... "

He said it is his understanding that Kekua's mother is operating her Twitter account. He said he'd never met her mother. When told by a reporter that she apparently might not have existed, Mauia said: "No, she is real."

Te'o is training in preparation for the NFL draft at the IMG Institute in Bradenton, Fla. He is No. 8 on Mel Kiper's latest draft board.

He's close to her family but never met her mother?

 

[TheKaeptain]

I don't even...

WTF

 

[Treefingers]

So, uh, Arizona Cardinals fullback Reagan Mauia is now saying that she actually is real and, uh, he met her.

Yeah.

Sounds like someone didn't get the memo.

 

[chuckddd]

Uh...?

Lennay Kekua – Manti Te’o's Fake, Dead Girlfriend – Was Real, Says Arizona Cardinals Fullback Reagan Mauia, Who Claims to Have Met Her

You know what? Fuck this. Let's get detective gaf on the case. No one gets to the bottom of ridiculous shit like this better than gaf.

 

[perfectchaos007]

what the fuck is going on

A snipe hunt

 

[BigAT]

What if the hoax IS the hoax?!?!?

 

[Lonestar]

At this rate, not sure if we can really believe that the Hawaiian Islands are real. Could be an elaborate hoax brought on by the Hawaiian People.