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Manti Te'o Hoax

Posted: January 16th, 2013, 7:29 pm
by Sly Fox
Wow!
deadspin.com wrote:Image
Manti Te’o’s Dead Girlfriend, The Most Heartbreaking And Inspirational Story Of The College Football Season, Is A Hoax
Timothy Burke and Jack Dickey


Notre Dame's Manti Te'o, the stories said, played this season under a terrible burden. A Mormon linebacker who led his Catholic school's football program back to glory, Te'o was whipsawed between personal tragedies along the way. In the span of six hours in September, as Sports Illustrated told it, Te'o learned first of the death of his grandmother, Annette Santiago, and then of the death of his girlfriend, Lennay Kekua.
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Re: Manti Te'o Hoax

Posted: January 16th, 2013, 8:20 pm
by Purple Haize
You beat me to it! He HAD to have been in on it. Otherwise there is another female involved. The third option would that he and T'sopo( not trying to spell that name) are more likely to attend ATrain type events and needed an 'out' before it went national.

Re: Manti Te'o Hoax

Posted: January 16th, 2013, 8:35 pm
by jbock13
Purple Haize is a hoax. He isn't real :shock:

Re: Manti Te'o Hoax

Posted: January 16th, 2013, 8:41 pm
by logic
This is absolutely bizarre for lack of a more outrageous term.

Re: Manti Te'o Hoax

Posted: January 16th, 2013, 8:43 pm
by thepostman
Watch Catfish and Catfish the tv show. I find both fascinating and yet can't believe people still fall into this kind of trap.

Re: Manti Te'o Hoax

Posted: January 16th, 2013, 10:14 pm
by alabama24
Here is the big question in my mind: How well did ND investigate. Were they truly convinced of Te’o’s innocence in the matter BEFORE they got whooped by BAMA? In retrospect, it might have been in their best interest to bench him. :lol:

Re: Manti Te'o Hoax

Posted: January 16th, 2013, 10:17 pm
by Purple Haize
jbock13 wrote:Purple Haize is a hoax. He isn't real :shock:
I got nothing but laughter.....

Re: Manti Te'o Hoax

Posted: January 16th, 2013, 10:28 pm
by thepostman
Purple Haize wrote:
jbock13 wrote:Purple Haize is a hoax. He isn't real :shock:
I got nothing but laughter.....
will you now post a picture of your 4 pack on twitter to prove you are real?

Re: Manti Te'o Hoax

Posted: January 16th, 2013, 10:31 pm
by Purple Haize
thepostman wrote:
Purple Haize wrote:
jbock13 wrote:Purple Haize is a hoax. He isn't real :shock:
I got nothing but laughter.....
will you now post a picture of your 4 pack on twitter to prove you are real?
I have more of a kegger than a 4-pack. Play Basketball

Re: Manti Te'o Hoax

Posted: January 16th, 2013, 10:47 pm
by adam42381
Dude, you need to hit the rack.

Re: Manti Te'o Hoax

Posted: January 16th, 2013, 10:49 pm
by thepostman
If he's serious he will

Re: Manti Te'o Hoax

Posted: January 16th, 2013, 11:11 pm
by jbock13
Purple Haize wrote:
jbock13 wrote:Purple Haize is a hoax. He isn't real :shock:
I got nothing but laughter.....
Just kidding as usual. You know that you a very intelligent, poignant, and erudite individual.

Re: Manti Te'o Hoax

Posted: January 16th, 2013, 11:39 pm
by Purple Haize
jbock13 wrote:
Purple Haize wrote:
jbock13 wrote:Purple Haize is a hoax. He isn't real :shock:
I got nothing but laughter.....
Just kidding as usual. You know that you a very intelligent, poignant, and erudite individual.
I don't know what half those words mean but ill take it as a compliment

And I hit the rack about once a month! Haven't you heard me speak of Soul Brothers ribs? :dontgetit

Re: Manti Te'o Hoax

Posted: January 17th, 2013, 12:19 am
by TallyW
Reminded me of SJ.

Re: Manti Te'o Hoax

Posted: January 17th, 2013, 12:23 am
by lynchburgwildcats
I could swear the man known as Manti Te'o was a myth, I don't recall a Manti Te'o even playing in the National Championship game.

Re: Manti Te'o Hoax

Posted: January 17th, 2013, 12:38 am
by NotAJerry
Between this story, and the guy who got caught outsourcing his job to China, this has been the best bizarre news day in quite a while.

Re: Manti Te'o Hoax

Posted: January 17th, 2013, 12:46 am
by flamesfan30
kelsey goss lives.

Re: Manti Te'o Hoax

Posted: January 17th, 2013, 12:52 am
by SuperJon
TallyW wrote:Reminded me of SJ.
At least we didn't kill our girl off.

Re: Manti Te'o Hoax

Posted: January 17th, 2013, 1:47 am
by NotAJerry
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Re: Manti Te'o Hoax

Posted: January 17th, 2013, 1:53 am
by lynchburgwildcats
What makes this story even more pathetic is that the fake pics of the girl weren't even from that of a hot girl. If you're going to fabricate the whole deal, do it the right way. Bring it hard or don't bring it all - smoke show or nothing! Seriously, if I were to be this pathetic, I'd find the hottest "regular" girl on Facebook and use her pictues.

Re: Manti Te'o Hoax

Posted: January 17th, 2013, 2:02 am
by jbock13
lynchburgwildcats wrote:What makes this story even more pathetic is that the fake pics of the girl weren't even from that of a hot girl. If you're going to fabricate the whole deal, do it the right way. Bring it hard or don't bring it all - smoke show or nothing! Seriously, if I were to be this pathetic, I'd find the hottest "regular" girl on Facebook and use her pictues.
Seriously?

Re: Manti Te'o Hoax

Posted: January 17th, 2013, 7:47 am
by 01LUGrad
This is nuts. My first reaction as a ND fan was to jump straight to the "Manti made the whole thing up" conclusion. But then ND's athletic director got up in the press conference last night and was pretty convincing that it really was a hoax, citing independent investigator's findings. Combine that with the fact that Brian Kelly decided to come back to school even though he realized this was going to surface, and I'm now trending to the "Wow, Manti has got to be the stupidest dude on the planet" conclusion.

Either way, this is bad. As I wrote somewhere else, Lance Armstrong thinks Manti Te'o looks like an idiot right now.

Re: Manti Te'o Hoax

Posted: January 17th, 2013, 8:44 am
by LUconn
I'm sure he fell for a fake girl, embellished their relationship a little and then it got out of hand from there.

Re: Manti Te'o Hoax

Posted: January 17th, 2013, 10:38 am
by Sly Fox
Oh, even if he is gullible it is tough to deny he certainly used the girl he never met as a tool for his own personal Heisman hype machine.

Have you guys seen the stories coming out now from another Samoan NFL player?
The Sporting News wrote:Manti Te'o girlfriend hoax: Former NFL player says Lennay Kekua 'real,' met her in person

Staff report Sporting News


Lennay Kekua, the supposed fake late girlfriend of Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o, "is real," according to a former NFL player who said he met her in person twice in 2011.

Reagan Mauia, who was cut by the Arizona Cardinals last October, told ESPN.com on Wednesday that he was introduced in June of that year to a woman claiming to be Kekua. The meetings took place in American Samoa where Mauia, Pittsburgh Steelers safety Troy Polamalu and other Polynesian teammates were doing charity work.
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Re: Manti Te'o Hoax

Posted: January 17th, 2013, 10:41 am
by 4everfsu
Te'o was in on the hoax or the value of a Notre Dame education is not worth its cost.