Starphoenix
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Come to San Antonio, Panthers.
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NFL 2012 Conference Championship |OT| My Brother's Kaeper
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Come to San Antonio, Panthers.
It will be interesting if ESPN picks up the story. I sent a link to the AJC sports editors.
Dutch Gronk
Banned
Manti was actually dating Tim Tebow! Who cheated on him with Mark Sanchez, who licked Rex his wife her feet! CONTROVERSY!
Seriously though, how much does this mess with his draft position? Even if Notre Dame came up with all this bullshit, he happily went along with it, enjoying all the hype one man can get. Like Squiken said, drafting the kid brings a whole lot of shit on the side with it if all this is true.
Edit: I just noticed I called him a kid, I'm so old...
Goro Majima
Kitty Genovese Member
Well I'm sure New England will draft him in the 3rd or something crazy.
Dutch Gronk
Banned
Yeah, we need more big, slow linebackers. That will fix the problem.
ActStriker
Member
We already have enough LBs who can't cover, but at least they can tackle.
Futurevoid
Member
I was going to say. You can hear that draft stock plummeting....
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Holy shit this is amazing. He was totally in this all along. The dude is a complete fucking sociopath.
I suddenly want this guy on the Jets (after the massive draft stock drop). Dude is the next Ray Lewis.
Fucking insane.
Also sad that Deadspin is pretty much the pinnacle of integrity in sports journalism. At least in some respects.
Future PhaZe
Member
How long until ESPN picks this up?
Man, that story is insane.
But it's also a weird journalism case because there's a certain degree of privacy you wouldn't breach, particularly as a big outlet. I'd think it below even the student paper to hunt down a player's girlfriend to ask about him.
Regardless, it's still an embarrassing failure of fact checking.
But it's also a weird journalism case because there's a certain degree of privacy you wouldn't breach, particularly as a big outlet. I'd think it below even the student paper to hunt down a player's girlfriend to ask about him.
Regardless, it's still an embarrassing failure of fact checking.
Goro Majima
Kitty Genovese Member
Well it took them like 3 days to get to the Favre stuff. I don't think they have designs on Teo being a commentator anytime soon so probably a few hours.
Holy crap.
Dominican Power
Member
Aren't they like family friends?
Futurevoid
Member
Speaking of the Jets, Bart Scott is a moron (I know, nothing new)
The mind boggles.
The mind boggles.
Dutch Gronk
Banned
Uuuuh...
Now I have not seen Lewis play whilst at Miami, but from what I read, he was a whole lot better than Te'o. Te'o is slow, can't cover all that great and once he's blocked he never gets off those blocks. Don't see him dominating like Lewis.
My dad had some issues of SI from back in the 1950's and 1960's he saved because of the big stories, like Arnold Palmer playing the Masters and winning, the Jets over the Colts, etc. They used to have the best writing. Now I never think of SI as a quality publication. Just a swimsuit issue once a year.
TheDrizzlerJ11
Member
Is he complaining or boasting?
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
I meant the whole psychopath part.
Dude is seriously going to be lucky to get drafted (if Deadspin is right). I'd imagine some team is going to take a late late flier on him.
The long form writing is actually still good. They can pay for the big writers.
It's just that they only have two or three of those in every issue now.
Futurevoid
Member
Complaining of course. The media treats them unfairly!TheDrizzlerJ11 said:
yeah fucking right *rollseyes
So how did Manti talk to her on the phone nightly?
Or never ever see her on her deathbed?
DeaconKnowledge
Member
When having a fake girlfriend goes too far.
Futurevoid
Member
Not enough :jnc's in the world. Let me make sure I'm reading this right - so this person met him, got him to care and then faked her own death under that name? HAHAAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHH
How did he not know his girlfriend was a real person? All that shit about her dying? She was his guest at a USC game. Fucking Notre Dame. Such lame spin
Starphoenix
Member
djplaeskool
Member
Wow. They're trying to get in front of this thing real quick, eh?
Dutch Gronk
Banned
Did he never visit his 'girlfriend' in the hospital? Or was the hospital in on it too?
And who's funeral did he go to?
Norte Dame is blowing so much smoke out of its ass right now they don't even know where they are anymore.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Brian Kelly covered up a rape incident.
Covering up a
This does pale in comparison.
How can he not know about the hoax when he allegedly met her in-person and then the photos on her Twitter account were very obviously a completely different girl that he had never met? Also kind of fucked that Notre Dame knew for nearly a month and never said anything. Pretty obvious they wouldn't have were it not for the Deadspin report.
Spectral Glider
Member
Sometimes there are no words. I watched the piece on 20/20 the other day about some chick that created an entire fake facebook family. Some people are just fuckin warped.
NihonTiger90
Member
Coming soon to a theater near you: "Te'o and the Real Girl"
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Oh wow. ESPN already covering this, lead story on PTI.
Dutch Gronk
Banned
So now Te'o his fake dead girlfriend is tweeting him from the fake grave. Is this real life?
He also killed a kid. Let's not forget that.
Oh I'm in one of the front cars on the Notre Dame hate train. This is just another log on the fire. This is the good kind of Schaubenfreude
Goro Majima
Kitty Genovese Member
So was she not his girlfriend? Now she's just "some girl" that he met once?
Dutch Gronk
Banned
Maybe Te'o is the kid from 'Sixth Sense' and the girl was dead all along!
Spectral Glider
Member
America was the victim of a hoax too, that hoax being the bullshit idea that ND was a #1 team.