Holy Shit, the guy who wrote that Te'O Sports Illustrated cover story
STILL believes that Te'O was duped:
From Deadspin:
"I've obviously been maybe branded a little bit naive for writing what I did, but I mean I don't think he has it in him to be a part of this," he said. "I think he was duped, hook, line and sinker."
Holy shit, man. Most of the time when I've seen someone claiming that Te'O is innocent, I assume it is because they haven't read the recently published SI transcripts.....but now the fucking guy that he lied to says he thinks Te'O is innocent. Seriously? You believe that shit about him being on the phone with her 8 hours a night? That he never once asked to visit or interact with this supposed girlfriend? That his voice brought her out of a coma?
I'm reading through the SI transcript again and
holy shit does none of this make any sense. Te'o is lying. Period. Either now or then or both.
1. If he never met her why did his dad,
who got the information from Te'o, tell the South Bend paper they met at Stanford in 2009?
but in the SI transcript he says:
SI: How did you meet her?
TE'O: We met just, ummmm, just she knew my cousin. And kind of saw me there so. Just kind of regular.
SI: How long were you dating? I know that can be a complicated question.
TE'O: Oct. 15 was the official date. Of last year. I've known her for four years. So we've been friends.
SI: So you dated for about a year.
TE'O: Yeah.
So this "official date" was entirely online? REALLY?!
and then the story about her in the hospital:
SI: She couldn't communicate?
TE'O: No. She could only breathe. One of the miraculous things was when I talked to her and she would hear my voice her breathing would pick up. Like quickly, and then she would start crying. But her breathing would quicken, and she would start crying.
So her brother was in the room with the nurse. They were monitoring her. She said, "Who is she on the phone with?" Her boyfriend. She was like, "That's amazing. She doesn't do that with anybody else." So that happened. And then she flatlined and we were losing her.
So that's what, 3 people at least? All in on the hoax?
SI: I just want to make sure. Lennay had an iPad. She wrote a series of 12 letters to you every Friday before a game.
Who read these to you?
TE'O:
Her brother or her sister. Noa is her twin brother.
SI: How long was each letter?
TE'O: It was about a page.
Continuing:
TE'O: So right when I landed, I was expecting to get a voicemail saying she's gone. So I landed and
I had a voicemail from her brother saying, "Brother, call me back right now." So you can imagine what's going through my head. I was like, "What am I going to do? How am I going to take this?'"And so I called him back, the doctor came in and he saw something and he wants to try some treatment on her to see if it works. From there she slowly started to get better. Slowly. Eventually she came out of her coma and she started having memory problems and she couldn't remember because of the accident. That's how much damage she had to her frontal lobe. She had memory problems.
I was actually the first person that she talked to. She was breathing, breathing. When I talked to her, I would say, "Babe, do you know who this is?" I knew she knew who it was because her breathing would pick up. I was like, "Relax, chill. Breathe slowly. Breathe slowly." And then, that was when she first started to speak was that conversation. I was like, "Babe, I love you. I love you." Very slightly she said, "I love you."
I'm not a doctor but HOW IN THE HELL DOES HE GET TO BE THE FIRST PERSON TO TALK TO HER? DID SHE COMA DIAL HIM?!? There had to be a family member in the room who she would recognize first rather than a voice on the phone.
