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

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bluehat9 said:
Manti and Swarbrick lie detector test results...right after the break!


edit: and stephen a. smith is just taking a dump all over Te'o on First Take (of course bayless took the opposite approach since that's the show).
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Rofl haha.

Dude just needs to come clean already. Or release the phone number. Something. You can't run away from shit like this when you're waist deep ready.
 
BronsonLee said:
In my opinion, two possible things:
Meeting someone else
Getting stood up, being embarrassed about it, and saying otherwise

Also, I think the anonymous tip that Deadspin caught was given to them for a very specific reason. It's entirely in the realm of possibility that it was someone with a grudge against him who knew about this, and wanted to cause problems. Like a hoaxer being denied extortion, or a recently broken up with boy/girlfriend. It smacks of revenge.
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What about just random Stanford students? To me it is shocking that the girlfrend of a rival school's star player wouldn't be investigated by Stanford students. I mean if this happened in the SEC this would have been outed as a fake in about 5 minutes after NBC talked about it on air.
 
LyleLanley said:
If he wasn't in on the hoax isn't it kind of crazy that they never skyped once?
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Isn't it kind of crazy that they "knew" each other for 3 years but never actually met in person? What red-blooded male is not going to figure out a way to go visit his "girlfriend" in that amount of time?
 
isoquant said:
Who's this 'RT' guy people are referring to?
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Why it's Ray Traylor. Otherwise known as the BIG BOSS MAN!

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isoquant said:
Who's this 'RT' guy people are referring to?
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for the love of god i can't type the kids name, but its in the deadspin article. former high school football star who apparently was behind the Lennay Kakau person.

this story is a giant bag of fucked up. i watch the shit out of catfish and get that it can happen, but how the hell does this happen to one of the most polarizing football players in the country?

i'm confused how before yesterday there was 1 story which all outlets reported (met in 09, yada yada yada) and after yesterday...totally different story.

can't wait to hear him speak

andycapps said:
Isn't it kind of crazy that they "knew" each other for 3 years but never actually met in person? What red-blooded male is not going to figure out a way to go visit his "girlfriend" in that amount of time?
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its staggering. in this 'age' of facetime, skyping, video chat, etc....there was never a red flag that this chick didn't want to meet up or have face2face conversations? unreal
 
Azwethinkweiz said:
On the Dan Patrick show this morning, they thought it was someone at ESPN who was sick of them dragging their feet after having the story for about a week.
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Oh MAN. That's a good thought too. That's definitely up there too.

dionysus said:
What about just random Stanford students? To me it is shocking that the girlfrend of a rival school's star player wouldn't be investigated by Stanford students. I mean if this happened in the SEC this would have been outed as a fake in about 5 minutes after NBC talked about it on air.
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Would Deadspin even act on such a tip? No offense to Stanford students, but it seems like the tip needed to supply a significant bit of info towards being a fake. People lie about their colleges all the time, no? That's not too newsworthy.
 
BronsonLee said:
Oh MAN. That's a good thought too. That's definitely up there too.



Would Deadspin even act on such a tip? No offense to Stanford students, but it seems like the tip needed to supply a significant bit of info towards being a fake. People lie about their colleges all the time, no? That's not too newsworthy.
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i saw a tweet this morning from a former stanford football player who said that Te'o would ask the guys on the team if they knew or heard of this chick. guess no one acted on it
 
dionysus said:
What about just random Stanford students? To me it is shocking that the girlfrend of a rival school's star player wouldn't be investigated by Stanford students. I mean if this happened in the SEC this would have been outed as a fake in about 5 minutes after NBC talked about it on air.
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Stanford students have to spend time doing stuff that students at SEC schools don't. Like going to class.
 
Azwethinkweiz said:
On the Dan Patrick show this morning, they thought it was someone at ESPN who was sick of them dragging their feet after having the story for about a week.
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I'm betting on Rece Davis. Alabama guy who's tired of listening to Holtz. That's a Bingo.
 
What I'm trying to figure out is why people are sticking their neck out for this guy when they never even met him. None of these articles that have been released seem fishy at all to any of them.

They're pulling the Chris Crocker, "Leave Manti Alone."
 
LQX said:
Of course Skipp Bayless believes Te'o. Ha.
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I catch him on the podcast so I got to wait til it's available tonight. Skip has a huge Te'o mancrush, almost bordering on his Tebow one. He even said he expects Te'o to be the next Ray Lewis.

It seems like Skip curses the athletes he loves the most lol.
 
On the DP show the SI article writer just claims he believes Manti is telling the truth and he feels sorry for Manti. Talks about how all these acquaintances, a priest, players, the coaches, all just had the best things to say about Manti and also his girlfriend they never met. Apparently he talked about his girlfriend a whole lot.

The more I hear about how Manti is this perfect guy with upstanding morals and just naive, the more I think this is the sign of a psychopath. No one is as perfect and innocent as all these acquaintances say he is. Then again I want this to be like an episode of a soap opera so....
 
BertramCooper said:
Not ones that contradict the stupid narratives they help create.

When was the last time ESPN broke a really big sports story? They let the online sites do that, and then just babble incoherently about them for months afterward.
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Exactly. They get to cash in on the long tail of the story without having to ever jeopardize their access to their sources by being the ones to betray/investigate them.
 
dionysus said:
On the DP show the SI article writer just claims he believes Manti is telling the truth and he feels sorry for Manti. Talks about how all these acquaintances, a priest, players, the coaches, all just had the best things to say about Manti and also his girlfriend they never met. Apparently he talked about his girlfriend a whole lot.

The more I hear about how Manti is this perfect guy with upstanding morals and just naive, the more I think this is the sign of a psychopath. No one is as perfect and innocent as all these acquaintances say he is. Then again I want this to be like an episode of a soap opera so....
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The SI writer sounded super naive to me, like "I just can't believe Manti would do it." The elaborateness of this hoax with Teo having no knowledge just strains belief, especially with a known friend of his being involved. I thought the SI guy did himself no favors.
 
GitarooMan said:
The SI writer sounded super naive to me, like "I just can't believe Manti would do it." The elaborateness of this hoax with Teo having no knowledge just strains belief, especially with a known friend of his being involved. I thought the SI guy did himself no favors.
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man, you can't upset the almighty Notre Dame! Tread carefully! Let the online pleebs handle it, the ivory castles are too busy caressing ego's
 
Cardinals Player Says He Met Manti Te’o’s Fake Dead Girlfriend


"This was before her and Manti," Maui'a 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."
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HiiiLife said:
I'm just noticing plenty of my friends that don't even watch sports talk about this. More than the Sandusky story.
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Probably because this is a fun story to discuss -- and there's still some mystery to it. It's not so much about sports as it is about celebrity culture, and media, and it's that rare case where the most conspiracy-theory-sounding angle (that Te'o himself is involved) is most likely the truth of what happened.

There's nothing fun about the Sandusky story. It's just depressing and sick.
 
LyleLanley said:
If he wasn't in on the hoax isn't it kind of crazy that they never skyped once?
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As I said earlier, I have a long distance boyfriend I met online and we talk on skype all the time. But neither of us have webcams so we don't see each other while we do it. So it's not completely unusual that Manti never saw this 'girl' on webcam.
 
Perhaps I can understand him not seeing her once on Skype. But he didn't do a spontaneous surprise visit once while she was dying of leukaemia? Bollocks.
 
Koomaster said:
As I said earlier, I have a long distance boyfriend I met online and we talk on skype all the time. But neither of us have webcams so we don't see each other while we do it. So it's not completely unusual that Manti never saw this 'girl' on webcam.
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yes it is unusal. Not saying it's wrong or anything along those lines, but NEVER actually seeing someone you claim to be in love with is unusual.

have you NEVER actually seen your long distance BF?
 
Koomaster said:
As I said earlier, I have a long distance boyfriend I met online and we talk on skype all the time. But neither of us have webcams so we don't see each other while we do it. So it's not completely unusual that Manti never saw this 'girl' on webcam.
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how long have you guys been together?
 
Watching the video of Brain Kelly giving Te'o the game ball after the Michigan win, even Te'o's body language is really strange. Constantly looking at the ground and he looks more nervous than sad. I wish i knew more about reading microexpression
 
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