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Today's OT Blockbuster: Manti Teo Hoax (Deadspin)

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http://deadspin.com/5976517/manti-teos-dead-girlfriend-the-most-heartbreaking-and-inspirational-story-of-the-college-football-season-is-a-hoax?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Um, wow.
 
I was just going to post this as I was emailed the link.

Bizarre.

If the Alabama game didn't send his draft stock plummeting enough.

This will.
 
I always think of things in terms of motive. Why would anyone make that up????

If true, I can only come to one conclusion and that is that maybe he wanted to have people think he had a GF when perhaps he really wasn't into girls? He clearly could have had his pick of any girl at Notre Dame. If that's the case (and I'm purely speculating), then its sad a person still needs to hide in our society but even sadder that a person would go to such dishonest extents to make up such a story.

If he really made this up, I hope he never plays a down in the NFL.
 
From what I'm seeing it's that Te'o is the victim of an internet catfish. He started a relationship with a woman he had met online and never met and then was informed that she had died.

Remember that Te'o is mormon. Probably not a lot of mormon girls running around South Bend/Notre Dame campus, so if he wanted to date a mormon then the internet was probably his best bet.

If he did make this up then it's horrible, but I tend to lean towards him being deceived and taken advantage of.
 
WestWYOPoke said:
From what I'm seeing it's that Te'o is the victim of an internet catfish. He started a relationship with a woman he had met online and never met and then was informed that she had died.

Remember that Te'o is mormon. Probably not a lot of mormon girls running around South Bend/Notre Dame campus, so if he wanted to date a mormon then the internet was probably his best bet.

If he did make this up then it's horrible, but I tend to lean towards him being deceived and taken advantage of.
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Boy, those are a lot of IF'S.
 
WestWYOPoke said:
From what I'm seeing it's that Te'o is the victim of an internet catfish. He started a relationship with a woman he had met online and never met and then was informed that she had died.

Remember that Te'o is mormon. Probably not a lot of mormon girls running around South Bend/Notre Dame campus, so if he wanted to date a mormon then the internet was probably his best bet.

If he did make this up then it's horrible, but I tend to lean towards him being deceived and taken advantage of.
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He or his dad stated several times that he met her at Stanford after a game, and that she visited him in Hawaii multiple times. So was he lying about that?

And I don't think Deadspin or any media outlet would run a story like this without having there facts straight. The whole thing reeks. We will see though.
 
WestWYOPoke said:
From what I'm seeing it's that Te'o is the victim of an internet catfish. He started a relationship with a woman he had met online and never met and then was informed that she had died.

Remember that Te'o is mormon. Probably not a lot of mormon girls running around South Bend/Notre Dame campus, so if he wanted to date a mormon then the internet was probably his best bet.

If he did make this up then it's horrible, but I tend to lean towards him being deceived and taken advantage of.
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I don't believe this at all (even after reading Te'o 's lawyer concoted statement published by ESPN). He said that he MET her after a game vs. Stanford in 2009. Te'o 's dad said that Manti and her would hang out together in Hawaii.
 
http://articles.southbendtribune.com/2012-10-12/sports/34419536_1_brian-and-ottilia-manti-te-o-irish-head-coach" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
 
Does anyone think it is reasonable to assume that ANY person, let alone a star athlete, could be duped for 3 YEARS into thinking he was in a real relationship with a fictious online GF. C'mon man
 
OrediggerPoke said:
Does anyone think it is reasonable to assume that ANY person, let alone a star athlete, could be duped for 3 YEARS into thinking he was in a real relationship with a fictious online GF. C'mon man
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UGH NOOO
 
https://twitter.com/MacWrigley/status/291681415383363586" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
 
Hahaha, in the presser, they claimed he was the victim of a hoax, even though she supposedly met with him a bunch of times? If she took a picture from a random girl on the Internet, did she really look THAT much like her and pulled it off?

What on earth did she have to gain from faking?
 
OrediggerPoke said:
Does anyone think it is reasonable to assume that ANY person, let alone a star athlete, could be duped for 3 YEARS into thinking he was in a real relationship with a fictious online GF. C'mon man
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research the term "catfish", this kind of thing actually happens. not saying that's the case here but it does exist.
 
WestWYOPoke said:
OrediggerPoke said:
Does anyone think it is reasonable to assume that ANY person, let alone a star athlete, could be duped for 3 YEARS into thinking he was in a real relationship with a fictious online GF. C'mon man
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research the term "catfish", this kind of thing actually happens. not saying that's the case here but it does exist.
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There's a series on MTV called "catfish" that all about this very thing.
 
WestWYOPoke said:
From what I'm seeing it's that Te'o is the victim of an internet catfish. He started a relationship with a woman he had met online and never met and then was informed that she had died.

Remember that Te'o is mormon. Probably not a lot of mormon girls running around South Bend/Notre Dame campus, so if he wanted to date a mormon then the internet was probably his best bet.

If he did make this up then it's horrible, but I tend to lean towards him being deceived and taken advantage of.
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Way too many IFs. I'm a member of the LDS church and i dated A LOT of non mormons. He can't be that desperate. Its hard for me to believe that a star athlete, celebrity was that desperate for love that he would only meet a Mormon online. I'm not buying it. I wanna give him benefit of the doubt, but this is too odd to think he didn't know (or at least wasn't suspecting it). I have NO idea what the motive would be for him to do this, if so. He is stuck right now. Either way, this is humiliating for him.

I thought this was a Onion story at first, cause it wasn't believable.

This will haunt him forever. So easy to mock.

I saw someone on twitter put, "whose gonna tell Manti the truth behind pro wrestling"
 
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