The Manti Te’O Saga - merged threads.

[TheGator]

Te’o's family, and his father in particular, were floored when a native Hawaiian newspaper, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, printed an incredibly embarrassing picture of the island’s native son following Alabama’s 42-14 drubbing of the Golden Domers.

The picture showed Crimson Tide running back Eddie Lacy upright, powering over Te’o, who is on the ground in a pile of dust. It is not exactly the most flattering picture of Te’o — and it was not necessary, especially the way Te’o's father, Brian, sees it.

Brian Te’o is now imploring those on Honolulu to cancel their subscriptions


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http://gamedayr.com/gamedayr/manti-teos-father-blacklists-hawaiian-newspaper-over-photo-after-2013-bcs-national-championship-photo-game/

[gator1986]

Hahaha!!! Why's he mad because its showing how his kid was overrated?!?

[Bryan85]

I'm waiting for someone to say...."That picture was taken out of context."

[MtownGator]

Man the truth really hurts. Guess his dad is another sore loser.

[secgator]

It probably WAS taken out of context.

It should have read, "shown here is the 15th time in the game that ND Defensive player and runner-up in the Heisman Trophy and Hawaii native Manti Te'o was on the ground after an Alabama runner had just gained a first down. Picture is from early in the 2nd quarter of the BCS National Championship Game"

Then it would be in full context and as close to accurate as possible.

[og8trz]

There would be no media if Tim's Dad did that!

[gator1986]

There would be no media if Tim's Dad did that!

America hates white people...

[rpmGator]

From his position he can see Uranus.

[gator1986]

From his position he can see Uranus.

Lol

[gatorr4life]

I don't disagree with the picture, but if the article ridiculed him, them I could understand his position. Manti teo is a great role model and did/said all the right things when interviewd. He's a good guy and should be portrayed as such. Just my opinion.

[Freddy02]

Couldn't believe when they showed all his awards during the NC game that it wasn't followed by.... "boy these voters were wrong"

Was there a flattering photo of him doing anything positive of any significance? He may be a hell of a good guy, but he's not an SEC caliber player.

[g8rfan22]

I don't remember who posted the joke, but it was hilarious.

"Is that a tattoo on Te'o's arm or tread marks from Lacy and Yeldon?"

Classic....

[gatorr4life]

Couldn't believe when they showed all his awards during the NC game that it wasn't followed by.... "boy these voters were wrong"

Was there a flattering photo of him doing anything positive of any significance? He may be a hell of a good guy, but he's not an SEC caliber player.

Great/good players have bad games too. In this case, it just happened to be in the championship game. To say he's not an SEC caliber player is laughable. He got invited to New York, but he's not SEC material? Tell me, please.....what, exactly, would make him an SEC caliber player? I'm all ears....:huh:

[TheRealTejasGatorII]

what, exactly, would make him an SEC caliber player? I'm all ears....:huh:

Make a takle for starters.

[Freddy02]

Doing well against good competition. Something their schedule couldn't provide.

Maybe upper echelon SEC player would be a better statement cause... maybe Vandy.

[G8R92]

Good thing Urban Meyer wasn't his father. That reporter/photographer would get a beat down......

[LimeyGator]

It's not often you see accurate media reporting nowadays. Credit the paper, that's what most of the rest of the non-Domer world saw Te'o doing all night. Lying down, watching Bama sail past him...

[Swampmaster]

did manti make one tackle during that game?? musberger said he was the greatest LB in college history.

[gator1986]

did manti make one tackle during that game?? musberger said he was the greatest LB in college history.

Musberger is a dumb @$$!!

[fubar1]

did manti make one tackle during that game?? musberger said he was the greatest LB in college history.

I think he had at least 10 tackles. Kid had a productive game, but he didn't make many impactful plays.

[gator1986]

I think he had at least 10 tackles. Kid had a productive game, but he didn't make many impactful plays.

Well impact plays is what the greatest LB of our times is suppose to make!

[Bushmaster]

Teo had 10 tackles. He could play in the sec but he wouldnt be a standout. He was the best defensive player on nds ream. That is why he got the hype along with having a cool name.and his mama died, or his grandma.

RG3 is the same thing. Russell Wilson is juzt as good. So os Caperneck. They just dont have a cool name.

[fubar1]

Well impact plays is what the greatest LB of our times is suppose to make!

I didn't call him that. But someone questioned if he made even one tackle.

[northandsouth]

Read somewhere where a comment was posted on the Manti facebook page in response to his father's comments about canceling the Honolulu paper...

Does this mean I should cancel my DirectTV for them showing your son miss fifteen tackles during the game?

[atlantagator86]

What I don't understand is how anyone would really know it was Te'o' from that picture unless it identified him.

[gatordavisl]

did manti make one tackle during that game?? musberger said he was the greatest LB in college history.No, he did not say that. I believe the line was "most heralded" or "most decorated." It was in reference to the number of awards he won, which was extraordinary.

The photo is an accurate depiction of the game's events (minus the tread marks) and the reaction by Teo's father is laughable.

[AlfaGator]

Bama kicked him right in the pineapples.

[GatorLaw]

. . . Tell me, please.....what, exactly, would make him an SEC caliber player? I'm all ears....:huh:

Being better

[fox]

Lacy looks scared of cockroaches.

[TheRaid]

The picture depicts exactly what happened.

[secgator]

What I don't understand is how anyone would really know it was Te'o' from that picture unless it identified him.

Left upper arm tatoo distinctly Te'os.

I have no idea how many tackles he made or missed, but the whole idea of his father pushing for cancellations of the newspaper simply because they posted a pic of what was a fairly common sight in the game is laughable.

How many times have we seen the Gainesville paper put a photo in of a Gator loss which shows the other team scoring or hauling in a pass or running over a Gator?--probably several.

A game of this magnitude, with Bama winning it convincingly SHOULD have a photo in the media showing a Bama player doing something positive. Not the Gumps fault the ND players can't tackle and a photographer just happened to get the shot.

[32250Gator]

Wow.....can't believe the majority here hold the irrational opinion that Te'o isn't an SEC caliber player. Not only is he an SEC caliber player, but he would challenge Minter & Mosely for their spot on the all SEC team. The guy is going to be a top 25 pick and most here think he wouldn't even play in the SEC?? Really??:huh:

[Dreamliner]

I can identify with the love of a father.

[magnafides]

Great/good players have bad games too. In this case, it just happened to be in the championship game.

vs. Navy: 6 tackles (3 solo), 0 TFL, 0 sacks
vs. BC: 5 tackles (4 solo), 0 TFL, 0 sacks
vs. WF: 6 tackles (3 solo), 0 TFL, 0 sacks
vs. USC: 5 tackles (3 solo), 0 TFL, 0 sacks

The guy made some decent plays on some INTs where the ball was deflected or the QB didn't see him, but other than that there really isn't much there. Everyone makes a big deal about his tackle count but that is only good for ~50th in FBS and worse than 100th for solo tackles. And, only 5.5 TFL and 1.5 sacks on the season? Really?

He did have 10 tackles in the NCG, but only 3 solo, 0 TFL, and 0 sacks.

[Gatorrick22]

did manti make one tackle during that game?? musberger said he was the greatest LB in college history.

He's the most overrated LB is college history.

[CRIMDEFgator]

Wow. I have weird feelings about this. Why are we water carriers for Bama all of a sudden? You would think by the gloating that we had won the NC, instead of looking like fools against the Big East. Truth is ND, including Teo, were overrated. Not his fault! How is that the kid, or his dad's fault? For the hometown paper to print it, when there were uncountable equally embarrassing moments for ND in the game, is kind of a slap in the face to a local kid. Furthermore, lets put it in perspective; Saban is scum and Bama is a lowdown dirty football factory. The SAT score of one ND player probably equals Bama's entire roster. I hated to see ND in the game, because they didn't belong there and I wanted a good game... that is all. I don't gloat over a hated rival with a dirty coach and program winning an NC. Why would I? Why would you?

[secgator]

I don't think many in here are gloating over a hated rival as much as finding what Te'o dad is calling for to be a genuine laugher. It may have been a local hero boy, but his team got destroyed in the biggest college game of the year, and they chose to use a pic which should, if nothing else...demostrate just HOW much ND was ovdermatched. I doubt it was the intent necessarily of the paper to try and embarress Te'o as much as show just how much of a slaughter the game actually was, and how much better the Gumps were than that sacred school up north which had NO BUSINESS whatsoever being in the game at all.

May as well show some pics of Te'o---there ain't gonna be many chances for a local boy from Hawaii to EVER be in the BCSCG.

[oragator1]

I don't think people hate him as much as they realize the J. Clownsy and Jarvis Jones alone dwarf him on the field, yet because he played for ND he was lionized. He got more votes for a pure defensive player than anyone in history and there are at least 2 kids this year that are light years better than him, let alone the other 70 years of the award, or however many years it's been. There have literally been dozens of defensive players way better than hin just in my 25 years of really watching CF. Seeing him play a real team and exposed for what he is, a very good but by no means singular talent was why there is the schaedenfruede. Just more of the ridiculous sycophants that slurp up all things ND getting him far more than he earned.
Having said all of that, by all accounts he is an excellent human being and I hope he has a great career, just happy to things level more to where they should have been all along. Reminds me of Troy Smith in 2006, all season he was all world and his team was unbeatable, and in no small part because of our game he fell from 1st rounder all the way to the third round.

[GatorLaw]

Wow.....can't believe the majority here hold the irrational opinion that Te'o isn't an SEC caliber player. Not only is he an SEC caliber player, but he would challenge Minter & Mosely for their spot on the all SEC team. The guy is going to be a top 25 pick and most here think he wouldn't even play in the SEC?? Really??:huh:

Maybe you've seen him play a lot, I haven't. The only time I've seen him play was in the NC game. And considering the number of tackles he missed in that game I think he probably would be a starter for most teams in the SEC but I don't think he'd be anything exceptional. Certainly nothing like all the accolades he's gotten at ND. Maybe the NC game was an aberration, maybe he normally encounters players like Lacy and the other Alabama RB and stops them cold. But if so he certainly forgot how to do it in the NC game.

Loosely translated, in English Manti Te'o means Missed Tackle.

[Tebowism0823]

Father is wrong here. The kid is a good player but not great.

[Tito22]

Great/good players have bad games too. In this case, it just happened to be in the championship game. To say he's not an SEC caliber player is laughable. He got invited to New York, but he's not SEC material? Tell me, please.....what, exactly, would make him an SEC caliber player? I'm all ears....:huh:

Exactly. Some peoples brains on this board should be donated to science. Using their logic:

None of our Gator defenders.are big east caliber because they got owned from the jump by Louisville. None of our Gator defenders last year were SEC caliber because Alabama and LSU rolled over us.

[rpmGator]

Making a tackle isn't getting tripped over. There are a lot of pictures out there, including a TD run, where the hit was on the two, and the RB that was tackled, was four yards deep in the end zone when he landed.

Teo will be fine and go on to the next level, but the bigger backs ran over him at will. The pictures tell a different story than the stat line.

Bama went after him in the game. Throwing over him, running over him. Blocking him. It looked like they went after ND's best, and it worked.

[G8R92]

He's the most overrated LB is college history.

Brian Bosworth is.

[TheGator]

Brian Bosworth is.

True statement. The days of steroids.

[gator1986]

True statement. The days of steroids.

Manti is juicing too ill put money on that

[rpmGator]

Think his juice is pineapple...

[gator1986]

Yea and rum... He played like he was drinking those all night

[REM08]

In this country, we jump all over newspapers for being biased and spinning whatever they propagate out to us consumers. We should applaud this paper for showing something like it was. I can't imagine another picture that would have better embodied the title game.

[gatorjlm]

He was clearly misquoted in that picture.

[gatorr4life]

vs. Navy: 6 tackles (3 solo), 0 TFL, 0 sacks
vs. BC: 5 tackles (4 solo), 0 TFL, 0 sacks
vs. WF: 6 tackles (3 solo), 0 TFL, 0 sacks
vs. USC: 5 tackles (3 solo), 0 TFL, 0 sacks

The guy made some decent plays on some INTs where the ball was deflected or the QB didn't see him, but other than that there really isn't much there. Everyone makes a big deal about his tackle count but that is only good for ~50th in FBS and worse than 100th for solo tackles. And, only 5.5 TFL and 1.5 sacks on the season? Really?

He did have 10 tackles in the NCG, but only 3 solo, 0 TFL, and 0 sacks.

Fair enough.:laugh:

[gatorev12]

Doing well against good competition. Something their schedule couldn't provide.

Maybe upper echelon SEC player would be a better statement cause... maybe Vandy.

Yes, because Oklahoma and Stanford would get waxed by Vandy, I agree.

[Bushmaster]

I think the paper was a dick for running that picture. If my hometown newspaper put a picture of my son, whose team was playing in a National Championship game, in an embarrassing position, I would be a little pissed. Teo didn't stink up the field by himself and is easily the best player on NDs team.

Its your hometown paper, the town you grew up in. To kick Teo like that is just low class.

[Swamp_of_Gators]

Alabama ran right at him, if he was all he was hyped up to be, he would have had about 20+ tackles. I wouldn't even give him credit for the 10 tackles he had. It was more like the Alabama RBs were tackling him.

[gator1986]

I think the paper was a dick for running that picture. If my hometown newspaper put a picture of my son, whose team was playing in a National Championship game, in an embarrassing position, I would be a little pissed. Teo didn't stink up the field by himself and is easily the best player on NDs team.

Its your hometown paper, the town you grew up in. To kick Teo like that is just low class.

It's not low class to me...

[secgator]

I think the paper was a dick for running that picture. If my hometown newspaper put a picture of my son, whose team was playing in a National Championship game, in an embarrassing position, I would be a little pissed. Teo didn't stink up the field by himself and is easily the best player on NDs team.

Its your hometown paper, the town you grew up in. To kick Teo like that is just low class.

As REM08 said--that photo embodied what the game actually WAS it a nutshell. Period. It isn't like Te'o probably hasn't had more than his share of good press all over the island throughout his senior year, but when a photo shows him in a somewhat negative light--albeit the friggin truth---everyone should boycott the paper and cancel their subscription?? Yeah, right.

You can bet that there were photos of Te'o up on stage at the Heisman wearing his lei or whatever that was. Fine--it was him in a moment of glory. There were no doubt photos of him making one his many tackles over the course of the season against mediocre opponents....fine. But in a game that was for all the marbles, a photo showing what was a very common sight...ND player on their arse being run over and run around by a Bama player--sorry, the truth may hurt and be embarressing to his dad but the game was what it was--a slaughterfest and this photo states it perfectly.

How many folks were bellyaching and whining when the photo of Tebow crying at the SEC game loss to Alabama back in 09 was plastered on every paper in the free world? Rallying the public to boycott the papers which showed THAT photo?? Admonishing folks to cancel their subscriptions simply because the photo was an iconic image of how much that loss meant to Tim (and Gator fans as well)?? I don't remember much outrage from that one, and it had FAR more significance than this photo.

So Te'o had a bad game...big friggin deal. He was likely the ONLY local home boy from Hawaii who has ever played in a game of that magnitude and the whole sports world has seen or heard about him all season for a multitude of reasons. The photo ran--the photo made an accurate statement. Sorry dad--the truth is what it is and your boy's team lost and played like manure---it wasn't as if Te'o lost the game himself either. The whole team played badly and need to accept the good with the bad....especially a photo which paints the entire game story concisely and ACCURATELY.

[rpmGator]

Manti already got a "participated" ribbon for playing in the title game, now some want the newspaper to find a pic of him not star gazing or daisy hunting, during live action.

They plan to find some pics of him playing Pitt, to prove he is the best once more.

[petro]

Freeze vid at 26 seconds. That appears to be the picture. Te'o didn't get trucked at all on that play, but he clearly missed an attempted flying arm tackle. Something that ND was doing all night.


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[Gatorrick22]

Brian Bosworth is.

You're probably right, but Oklahoma wasn't pimping him for Heisman as much as ESPiN/Notre Dame were both pimping Te'o for Heisman.

And to think he actually got second place in the Heisman voting? Complete, and shameless, pimping by that network. It reminds me of how hard ESPiN tried to get Michigan in the BCSCG to play OSU instead of us in 2006.

[Swamp55]

He was clearly misquoted in that picture.

LOL :laugh:

[Gatorrick22]

He was clearly misquoted in that picture.

Lol.....

[tilly]

He was clearly misquoted in that picture.

Lol...the photo was clearly taken out of context.

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[TheGator]

Freeze vid at 26 seconds. That appears to be the picture. Te'o didn't get trucked at all on that play, but he clearly missed an attempted flying arm tackle. Something that ND was doing all night.


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The video looks worse than the picture. :laugh:

[G8RNTN]

Think it funny... Pops mad because he realizes his son was so freaking overrated he is embarrassed by it!!! Oh well:laugh:

[Al E Gator]

Looks like the pic captured Te'o doing his famous possum routine!...where early on in the game, he pretends to play dead to give Alabama the false hope of thinking they are on top of the Irish!...THEN Te'o suddenly wakes up and SINGLE-HANDEDLY shuts down the entire Alabama offense! Totally baiting the Crimson Tide in that pic!...

Wait, what?? Game's already over?? What??...

[geauxgator1]

The picture depicts exactly what happened.

That's right....as they say..one picture tells a thousand words...it put the game in proper perspective.

[geauxgator1]

It's just that ND gets overhyped whenever they are in the hunt for a MNC.. Since they hadn't been there for awile, the press was drooling all over them before their predictable collapse. The father needs to lighten up.. the kid is now a star, so it comes with the territory.

[Gatorrick22]

Looks like the pic captured Te'o doing his famous possum routine!...where early on in the game, he pretends to play dead to give Alabama the false hope of thinking they are on top of the Irish!...THEN Te'o suddenly wakes up and SINGLE-HANDEDLY shuts down the entire Alabama offense! Totally baiting the Crimson Tide in that pic!...

Wait, what?? Game's already over?? What??...

More like....... he was playing dead. And it worked.

[DawgFanFromAlabam]

The video looks worse than the picture. :laugh:

Clearly that video has been edited. I didn't see a single hold by the Bama line.

The real question in why did Elway want to ruin Te'o's career?

[geauxgator1]

Clearly that video has been edited. I didn't see a single hold by the Bama line.

The real question in why did Elway want to ruin Te'o's career?

Because Vince Dooley told him to?

[CRIMDEFgator]

Vandy could've given the Tide a better game. Sad. UF or UGA would've played them to an FG either way. TAandM would've beaten them - again (and 9 times out of 10). The Aggies are the best team in the country. This we have learned.

[Gatorrick22]

Vandy could've given the Tide a better game. Sad. UF or UGA would've played them to an FG either way. TAandM would've beaten them - again (and 9 times out of 10). The Aggies are the best team in the country. This we have learned.

:huh:

[Spurffelbow833]

There would be no media if Tim's Dad did that!

I don't recall Tim ever being on the losing end of this kind of photo-op.

[orangeblueorangeblue]

Upon receiving the news of the two deaths, Te'o went out and led the Fighting Irish to a 20-3 upset of Michigan State, racking up 12 tackles. It was heartbreaking and inspirational. Te'o would appear on ESPN's College GameDay to talk about the letters Kekua had written him during her illness. He would send a heartfelt letter to the parents of a sick child, discussing his experience with disease and grief. The South Bend Tribune wrote an article describing the young couple's fairytale meeting—she, a Stanford student; he, a Notre Dame star—after a football game outside Palo Alto.

Did you enjoy the uplifiting story, the tale of a man who responded to adversity by becoming one of the top players of the game? If so, stop reading.

http://deadspin.com/5976517/manti-teos-dead-girlfriend-the-most-heartbreaking-and-inspirational-story-of-the-college-football-season-is-a-hoax

[MiddleTNgator]

My buddy just called to tell me about this. Crazy.

[GataBaitx3]

My buddy just called to tell me about this. Crazy.

Mine did, too. This is messed up.

[LimeyGator]

Wowsers.

[ReggieNelson]

dear god

[ArtVandelay]

I didn't think it was possible for me to hate Notre Dame more than I did before.

What a douche!!!

How could the University let this story keep going?

[gator1986]

Manti Te'O is a moron if this is true... And I don't care if people like my choice of words if that story is true... Using someone as a means for his own personal gains, what a douche!!!!!

[revthejedi]

I'll reserve judgment until Te'o speaks on it.

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[TWGator]

I'll reserve judgment until Te'o speaks on it.

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What, exactly, do you expect him to say? "Uh, whoops!"??

[gator1986]

What, exactly, do you expect him to say? "Uh, whoops!"??

April fools! That would lighten it up at least a tad...

[orangeblueorangeblue]

It's like a "my girlfriend, back in Canada" tale gone far, far too far.

[MadduxFanII]

Was just coming to post this.

I mean, holy...

Kudos to Deadspin for some exhaustive reporting.

[GT Gator]

I didn't think it was possible for me to hate Notre Dame more than I did before.

What a douche!!!

How could the University let this story keep going?

I hate Notre Dame as much as the next guy, but I don't think you can pin this on the University. Maybe some blame should be put on their newspaper, but not much else.

If this is true, this Te'o's fault exclusively.

[GatorSean]

I mean... I don't even know what to think. Can this actually be true? Could he have really made this whole thing up, and none of the other so called journalist who did stories on it couldn't figure it out? Holy crap.

[nawlinsgator]

Man...got a cliff notes version of that article?

[co_gator89]

Really? Uhhh.....wow?

[orangeblueorangeblue]

Man...got a cliff notes version of that article?

It's not very long.

The Cliff's Notes version would be, uh, the headline.

[GatorSean]

Man...got a cliff notes version of that article?

That's what true journalism is supposed to look like. There is actually background information and facts to backup what they are writing about.

But to put it simply, the ND linebacker made up a story about how his girlfriend died. She wasn't his girlfriend, she didn't die, she didn't even exist. The pictures used are from somebody else's FB account.

[gator1986]

I mean... I don't even know what to think. Can this actually be true? Could he have really made this whole thing up, and none of the other so called journalist who did stories on it couldn't figure it out? Holy crap.

No because they just go with it, they make $$$ on it too.... Ddduuuuuhhhhhhh

[revthejedi]

What, exactly, do you expect him to say? "Uh, whoops!"??

You're right, I can't wait until this breaks on ND forums. The fallout will be epic, they view him like we do Tim.

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[ArtVandelay]

I hate Notre Dame as much as the next guy, but I don't think you can pin this on the University. Maybe some blame should be put on their newspaper, but not much else.

If this is true, this Te'o's fault exclusively.

Te'o is definitely the main culprit, but the school must have known it wasn't true and they kept going along with the story because it was good press for them.

[UFFL]

And with this, ND could be back in the pits

[orangeblueorangeblue]

And with this, ND could be back in the pits

Huh?

[WarDamnGator]

My wife used to work with a guy that would tell stories about his life in Cuba and the death of his wife and kids, over coming childhood disease, etc. He got all kinds of sympathy from his co-workers. Then one day my wife ran into his mother, and mentioned how hard her son had it, and the mother was shocked. "He never lived in Cuba, he was never married, he had no childhood illness ... ". It seems like some people are compulsive liars and sympathy junkies. It's a mental disorder. Maybe Te'o has a reasonable explanation for all this, but I doubt it.

[scrappygator]

If this is true, he needs to be a 1st round draft pick of the Oakland Raiders. Fit right in.

[pcbball5ca]

Disgusting

[UFFL]

Huh?

ND has been irrelevant in the media for a few years. The media will be more careful when they report on ND now

[GatorSean]

He probably should of stuck with his childhood favorite team, USC. It seems he and Kiffen are two peas in a pod.

[gator1986]

I wonder if it is really a boyfriend, but he made it a girlfriend so everyone wouldn't know he was gay? Sell that one to Star magazine, we could easily start the rumor...

[revthejedi]

&ldquo;@McMurphyESPN: Notre Dame statement: "Notre Dame coaches informed Dec 26 by Manti Te'o & parents Manti had been victim of what appears to be a hoax"

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[Nicho]

He tried to drop a hint by naming her after what sounds like the Hawaiian word for bullsh*t ("Kekua").

[Sylez_G_Koolaid]

Bro sounds like a drama queen. Wouldn't draft him.

[exiledgator]

Um... I.... um.... he...

wow. really?

[GatorSean]

&ldquo;@McMurphyESPN: Notre Dame statement: "Notre Dame coaches informed Dec 26 by Manti Te'o & parents Manti had been victim of what appears to be a hoax"

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Manti is the victim? That will be a heck of a story to weave.

[Gatorzz]

Saddest part about this whole story is the fact that Manti, the superstar linebacker of the Irish, wasn't getting any real live college ass. He was having cyber sex with his buddy.

[fox]

He is gay, right?

[gator1986]

He is gay, right?

Yes!! Perfect start the rumor!! Muahahahaaaa!! My diabolical plan is coming to fruition... 💩

[lifetimeg8r]

Just plain awful ...

[LAGatorDoc]

I have always wanted to find a use for this word, as it is one of those $10 words, but I haven't had the opportunity to do it until now: Flabbergasted!!!

[UFFL]

@TonyPauline: already getting phone callsh GM's say if the Te'o story is true it will have major impact on his draft grade.

good

[62gator]

All those missed tackles he had in the BCSNCG.........weren't really missed tackles. He was actually hugging his "girlfriend" ...

[KronoGator]

Manti is the victim? That will be a heck of a story to weave.

School helped perpetrate the first fraud, I'm sure they will make this one work as well.

[swampspring]

Oh wow! Just wow. I'm actually stunned by this story because I was rooting for the guy all year, despite my hatred of ND, because of his circumstance. For sentimental reasons, I honestly wanted him to win the Heisman even though I knew Manziel was the best player. I'm glad the award went to the right person, but just wow.

[g8tr96]

If this is true, and appears to be, how in the hell did he think he would not get caught? I mean.....with the many ways to gather personal info on anybody, you would think that eventually someone is going to dig around just see what comes up.

What a dumbass. His bowl performance easily dropped him in the draft....costing him a lot of money. Now this will most likely drop him even further and cost him even more money. Idiot.

[Headshot]

Update (5:17 p.m.): Notre Dame responds:

On Dec. 26, Notre Dame coaches were informed by Manti Te'o and his parents that Manti had been the victim of what appears to be a hoax in which someone using the fictitious name Lennay Kekua apparently ingratiated herself with Manti and then conspired with others to lead him to believe she had tragically died of leukemia. The University immediately initiated an investigation to assist Manti and his family in discovering the motive for and nature of this hoax. While the proper authorities will continue to investigate this troubling matter, this appears to be, at a minimum, a sad and very cruel deception to entertain its perpetrators.

Dennis Brown
University Spokesman | Assistant Vice President

[malligator]

Wish this had come out before Peter's tweet. :)

[Minister_of_Information]

Unbelievable.

[malligator]

Update (5:17 p.m.): Notre Dame responds:

On Dec. 26, Notre Dame coaches were informed by Manti Te'o and his parents that Manti had been the victim of what appears to be a hoax in which someone using the fictitious name Lennay Kekua apparently ingratiated herself with Manti and then conspired with others to lead him to believe she had tragically died of leukemia. The University immediately initiated an investigation to assist Manti and his family in discovering the motive for and nature of this hoax. While the proper authorities will continue to investigate this troubling matter, this appears to be, at a minimum, a sad and very cruel deception to entertain its perpetrators.

Dennis Brown
University Spokesman | Assistant Vice President

So the hoax convinced Manti so much that he fell asleep on the phone to the sound of another dude breathing?

[g8rfan22]

Does his draft stock drop? Crazy!!!

[Sylez_G_Koolaid]

Update (5:17 p.m.): Notre Dame responds:

On Dec. 26, Notre Dame coaches were informed by Manti Te'o and his parents that Manti had been the victim of what appears to be a hoax in which someone using the fictitious name Lennay Kekua apparently ingratiated herself with Manti and then conspired with others to lead him to believe she had tragically died of leukemia. The University immediately initiated an investigation to assist Manti and his family in discovering the motive for and nature of this hoax. While the proper authorities will continue to investigate this troubling matter, this appears to be, at a minimum, a sad and very cruel deception to entertain its perpetrators.

Dennis Brown
University Spokesman | Assistant Vice President

Bruh, I thought he claimed he met her in person at the Stanford game and they exchanged phone numbers there. Stop lying, Notre Dame!

[KronoGator]

The "others" being the Te'o family.

[MdlGator]

Not to mention he says he met her in person then started an internet relationship where she used pictures of some girl who says she had nothing to do with it. not buying it.

[Sylez_G_Koolaid]

So the hoax convinced Manti so much that he fell asleep on the phone to the sound of another dude breathing?

#NoHomo

[g8rfan22]

#NoHomo

Who knows....

[gator1986]

So the hoax convinced Manti so much that he fell asleep on the phone to the sound of another dude breathing?

So he is gay?!??

[LimeyGator]

@TonyPauline: already getting phone callsh GM's say if the Te'o story is true it will have major impact on his draft grade.

good

Draft stock, eh?

On the Plus side:
Incredible creativity.

On the Negative side:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSNyiSetZ8Y

[Headshot]

Bruh, I thought he claimed he met her in person at the Stanford game and they exchanged phone numbers there. Stop lying, Notre Dame!

He has gone into great detail about their relationship. He has talked about them vacationing together in Hawaii, meeting her on the football field after the Standford game.

This is sociopath type stuff.

[Sylez_G_Koolaid]

@josh_levin: Brent Musberger: A.J. McCarron's girlfriend is real & she's spectacular

lol

[gator1986]

lol

Hahaha!!!

[Sylez_G_Koolaid]

Faux John Madden‏@FauxJohnMadden

I don't know about you guys but I'm looking forward to Lennay Kekua's interview with Oprah


lol

[CAGator93]

Good day to steal a moped

[MiddleTNgator]

On ESPN now

[MiddleTNgator]

Says he met her online via statement on ESPN. Playing the victim card

[UFFL]

Guess who won't be on the cover on NCAA 14

Dodged a bullet there

[Lawdog88]

This might help Jelani more than we will ever know.

[geauxgator1]

You can't make this stuff up....Oh...wait I guess they did.

[GATORAZ]

ESPN is hard to watch right now

[Tolbert1906]

&ldquo;@McMurphyESPN: Notre Dame statement: "Notre Dame coaches informed Dec 26 by Manti Te'o & parents Manti had been victim of what appears to be a hoax"

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:lol:

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[MadduxFanII]

Alex Anzalone, one of our recruits and a former ND commit, just tweeted a picture he took with Te'o. Te'o's "girlfriend" liked the pic, then introduced herself to Anzalone. Alex is apparently pretty creeped out.

[CAGator93]

Not to worry Te'o. Your hometown newspaper will make sure the true story gets out there:

http://gamedayr.com/gamedayr/manti-teos-father-blacklists-hawaiian-newspaper-over-photo-after-2013-bcs-national-championship-photo-game/

[LimeyGator]

NFL Draft Interview:

"So Manti, we hear some people say you have some 'character' issues?"

"Yes, I am prone to making them up..."

[bleedorangeblue]

Watch this video if you really think he was a "victim" of a hoax. Unbelievable!
http://youtu.be/ao109a38uVY

[Jaggator]

Oh my! Just think what it would be like now had he won the Heisman.

[geauxgator1]

Alex Anzalone, one of our recruits and a former ND commit, just tweeted a picture he took with Te'o. Te'o's "girlfriend" liked the pic, then introduced herself to Anzalone. Alex is apparently pretty creeped out.

Best decision Alex made was not to go to ND.
I wonder if Brian Kelly jumps ship now?
This is too good to be true.

[Hilldw]

Per ESPN
Te'o issued a statement Tuesday afternoon:

"This is incredibly embarrassing to talk about, but over an extended period of time, I developed an emotional relationship with a woman I met online. We maintained what I thought to be an authentic relationship by communicating frequently online and on the phone, and I grew to care deeply about her.

"To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating.

"It further pains me that the grief I felt and the sympathies expressed to me at the time of my grandmother's death in September were in any way deepened by what I believed to be another significant loss in my life.

"I am enormously grateful for the support of my family, friends and Notre Dame fans throughout this year. To think that I shared with them my happiness about my relationship and details that I thought to be true about her just makes me sick. I hope that people can understand how trying and confusing this whole experience has been.

"In retrospect, I obviously should have been much more cautious. If anything good comes of this, I hope it is that others will be far more guarded when they engage with people online than I was.

"Fortunately, I have many wonderful things in my life, and I'm looking forward to putting this painful experience behind me as I focus on preparing for the NFL Draft."

He was asked again about his girlfriend on Jan. 3 prior to the BCS title game. He said: "This team is very special to me, and the guys on it have always been there for me, through the good times and the bad times...

So after reporting to ND on the Dec 26th he kept the hoax going on Jan. 3?! Messed up. How can he dodge the fact he knows and has interacted with Tuiasosopo who started the hoax? Is it possible that Te'o didn't know? Yes. Did he know?
But a friend of Tuiasosopo told Deadspin he was quote "80 percent sure" that Te'o participated and did so with publicity in mind.

The pic from Anzalone is hilarious btw. Look it up if you haven't seen it.

[revthejedi]

I like how Te'o/ND skate around the fact that Te'o said he met her.

*Unless the comments attributed to Te'o/his father are inaccurate.

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[ajjaxgator]

The corrections should be solid gold...
"Aside from the fact the he didn't know her, she wasn't in a car wreck, she didn't have leukemia, they didn't hang out in Hawaii, he didn't stay w/ her on the phone while she was in a coma, the sister doesn't exist, and she didn't die...(wait for it)...we stand by the story."

[gatorbogey]

had the author on lebatard's radio show down here in s. florida. a partial speculation is that te'o's friend create the girlfriend to cover te'o's sexuality. then the conspiracy to kill her off for some sympathy and to basically do away w/ the need to actually produce a live [body] girlfriend.

[exiledgator]

Amazing that ND is jumping behind this. Could have thrown him under the bus right now and walked away.

As they say in poker, they're pot committed now.

[CAGator93]

Can everyone get off Tebow's back now?

[Lawdog88]

Well, Te'oed will now have a meaning all its own.

[LimeyGator]

Can everyone get off Tebow's back now?

Unlikely. This was probably his fault...

[LimeyGator]

Amazing that ND is jumping behind this. Could have thrown him under the bus right now and walked away.

As they say in poker, they're pot committed now.

Committed seems an appropriate choice of wording...

[GATORAZ]

Jason McIntyre ‏@TheBigLead
Confirmed from 2 sources: ESPN has known about the Manti Te'o story for 10 days. Had been reporting it, but could not confirm.

[95Gator]

I'll reserve judgment until Te'o speaks on it.

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Te'o Statement:

"This is incredibly embarrassing to talk about, but over an extended period of time, I developed an emotional relationship with a woman I met online. We maintained what I thought to be an authentic relationship by communicating frequently online and on the phone, and I grew to care deeply about her. "To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating. "It further pains me that the grief I felt and the sympathies expressed to me at the time of my grandmother's death in September were in any way deepened by what I believed to be another significant loss in my life. "I am enormously grateful for the support of my family, friends and Notre Dame fans throughout this year. To think that I shared with them my happiness about my relationship and details that I thought to be true about her just makes me sick. I hope that people can understand how trying and confusing this whole experience has been. "In retrospect, I obviously should have been much more cautious. If anything good comes of this, I hope it is that others will be far more guarded when they engage with people online than I was. "Fortunately, I have many wonderful things in my life, and I'm looking forward to putting this painful experience behind me as I focus on preparing for the NFL Draft."


Sorry Te but that just doesn't cut it. This is bizarre to say the least.

[Bryan85]

"I first became suspicious when I never met her"

- Manti Te'o

[GatorBen]

Alex Anzalone's twitter "Who the heck was this?"

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BAw9sILCEAE16N8.jpg

[Minister_of_Information]

Calling this creepy is an insult to creeps everywhere.

[GrubGator]

This is really an indictment on the quality of women in South Bend. If your star football players has to make up a gf 2000 miles away and give her leukemia instead of finding a local coed that talent level must be very low in South Bend.

[geauxgator1]

"I first became suspicious when I never met her"

- Manti Te'o

LOL!

[steve6137]

Are the women at Notre Dame so homely that this guy had to make up an imaginary girlfriend...then kill her off?!

[philnotfil]

I'm... I don't even know the right words to describe this. Notre Dame knew on the 26th? Manti was still telling the story before and after the championship? ESPN has known for 10 days and didn't do anything with the story?

This story was his entire Heisman campaign, and it was all a lie? This is going to end up in a marketing textbook somewhere, and I'm not even sure if it will be presented positively or negatively. I mean, it got him to second in the Heisman voting when his stats say he shouldn't have even been in the conversation, that's pretty impressive. Then again, it was all a lie, that is usually frowned upon. Stretching the truth? No big deal, but straight lying about someone's death? Wow.

[GunGator]

Are the women at Notre Dame so homely that this guy had to make up an imaginary girlfriend...then kill her off?!

Maybe he was covering for the fact that he isn't interested in women...

Pure speculation on my part, but the football community isn't exactly welcoming to alternate life styles.

[kalaniocc]

You have to be kidding me

[geauxgator1]

I wonder what Dr. Lou recommends?

[steve6137]

Maybe he was covering for the fact that he isn't interested in women...

Pure speculation on my part, but the football community isn't exactly welcoming to alternate life styles.

You may be right.
Quite a commentary on our culture if being gay is worse than being a lying creeper.

[WarDamnGator]

This story makes AJ McCarron's girlfriend even more impressive.

[jagervol01]

So now he claims to have had a grandmother die in September as well? There should be due diligence on that as well. I would take nothing at face value from him.

[GatorBen]

So now he claims to have had a grandmother die in September as well? There should be due diligence on that as well. I would take nothing at face value from him.

Believe Deadspin verified in their story that his grandmother did actually pass away.

[gatorinmi]

And sports writers wonder why everybody else in the news room looks down at them?

I'm surprised that Stanford never came out and said that they had no student by that name.

ESPN said there is going to be an 8PM news conference tonight. Wojo really looks like an idiot. He tried to do some background on this story first and came up with nothing. Te'o said he couldn't get him pics of her or have him talk to her family. Wojo couldn't find any reports of her accident or death but ran with the story anyway.

[Sylez_G_Koolaid]

Te’o has many questions to answer regarding the situation. Regardless of whether he does so publicly, he’ll be doing so privately in the interviews and meetings that will precede the draft. Teams will want to know whether he can be trusted, and likewise what flaw possibly exists in his personality to prompt the fabrication of a girlfriend who would die during the season and draw Gipper-like attention to his football career.

“It could be ugly,” one league source with extensive knowledge of the pre-draft process told PFT.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/16/teo-girlfriend-hoax-creates-confusion-could-impact-draft-stock/

[g8rfan22]

This story makes AJ McCarron's girlfriend even more impressive.

Brent is that you? LOL

[G8RNTN]

I'll reserve judgment until Te'o speaks on it.

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Now what do u think of him???? I'll tell u ..... Fn weirdo!!!!

[Jstewie15]

Michael R Taylor @theMiketaylor51
R.I.P to all the facebook girlfriends across america
16 minutes ago

[Sylez_G_Koolaid]

randomcommenter says:Jan 16, 2013 6:55 PM

Bama RB Eddie Lacy already showed Te’o is easily faked out.


lol

[raycgator]

I just got home and logged in, can somebody please summarize?

[gatorinmi]

Rough couple of weeks for Te'o! He's now been exposed as a fraud twice.

[MelBeachGator]

And sports writers wonder why everybody else in the news room looks down at them?

I'm surprised that Stanford never came out and said that they had no student by that name.

ESPN said there is going to be an 8PM news conference tonight. Wojo really looks like an idiot. He tried to do some background on this story first and came up with nothing. Te'o said he couldn't get him pics of her or have him talk to her family. Wojo couldn't find any reports of her accident or death but ran with the story anyway.

There's a news conference at 8? Are you sure? *Grabs popcorn*

[Hilldw]

I would like to know on what basis ESPN and ND are selling the "this was a hoax against Te'o" line. The evidence to the contrary is overwhelming. How many times in interviews has he talked out about her death and how he was on the phone with her while she was in the hospital! Did the hoax go as far Tuiasosopo pretending to be a girl on the phone with Te'o? Come on! And then there is all the stories about them meeting and spending time together. Where did those come from? Te'o and his family, who clearly lied about it considering she never existed.

As messed up as this hoax is what is worst is ESPN and ND think they can cover this up with the delusion that Te'o is the victim. Now, I don't know Te'o or anybody else involved. I wasn't there for any of it. All I know is that there is no way that Te'o/ND 's statements and deadspin's article can be true at the same time.

My point is that at this juncture Manti Te'o is going to come out on top. As he is the "victim" Instead of doing due diligence on this ESPN and ND has decided to believe Te'o and prop him up as such. Te'o was the victim back in Sept when he lost his "girlfriend" and grandmother. Now he is the victim again. If the internet rumors are true about him he is yet again the victim and people will dump sympathy on him.

[gator1986]

Espn is spinning it as he is a victim

Idiots

[GatorBen]

I just got home and logged in, can somebody please summarize?

Manti Te'o's "dead girlfriend" that we all heard about this whole season wasn't his girlfriend, isn't dead, and doesn't exist at all, she was just a twitter account using pictures stolen from some other girl's facebook profile.

Notre Dame and Te'o say he was the victim of a hoax, that doesn't really lineup given that supposedly he had met her in person multiple times.

[WarDamnGator]

I just got home and logged in, can somebody please summarize?

The reports that Te'o overcame the death of his girlfriend this season is a Hoax. It was exposed that the twitter accounts, photographs, and stories were all faked. Te'o is now claiming he is the victim, rather than the perpetrator, of the hoax.

[g8rfan22]

Maybe it was just his iPhone 5 he was talking to. Siri does sound sexy... :)

[oragator1]

http://articles.southbendtribune.com/2012-10-12/sports/34419536_1_brian-and-ottilia-manti-te-o-irish-head-coach

He is about to get rolled.

[jeffphillips21]

Wow, this is crazy.

Though for someone to truly believe in Mormonism, he'd have to be somewhat gullible and naive. One day he'll realize that is just a hoax too and he'll be just as surprised.

Or maybe he's behind the scenes of both of these carefully crafted rues.

[geauxgator1]

Biggest story in sports since I don't know when, and it's negative and ND is right in the middle.... how cool is that?

[NitroSmoke]

As Mr Brown would say......WHAT THE WHAAAAAAAAT????

[62gator]

Espn is spinning it as he is a victim

Idiots


Yep! Supposedly they knew about this before the BCSNCG and sat on it. What about all the hardware he was awarded?

[GatorPlanet]

Manti and Co. are claiming that they are the hoax victims here, that a woman ingratiated herself with Manti and fabricated the rest.

[SkyChimp]

Holla!!! LOL :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: ND will be a memory in the wind from now on. They make relationship decisions like they make decisions on the field.

Look at his words about this girl he NEVER even laid eyes on before.

T'eo kills stock for eHarmony. CLICK HERE (http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8851033/story-manti-teo-girlfriend-death-apparently-hoax)

[gatorinmi]

There's a news conference at 8? Are you sure? *Grabs popcorn*

That's what ESPN reported at the end of SC.

[GatorBen]

Holla!!! LOL :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: ND will be a memory in the wind from now on. They make relationship decisions like they make decisions on the field.

Look at his words about this girl he NEVER even laid eyes on before.

T'eo kills stock for eHarmony. CLICK HERE (http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8851033/story-manti-teo-girlfriend-death-apparently-hoax)

Hah, from the comments on that article:

"Judging from his performance in the National Championship, a real case could be made that Manti Te'o himself never actually existed."

[GunGator]

I thought these were funny off ESPN comments.

"The 30 for 30 on this is already in production..."

"Lennay Kekua is Hawaiian for Lou Holtz"

[gatorinmi]

Biggest story in sports since I don't know when, and it's negative and ND is right in the middle.... how cool is that?

Jerry Sandusky? Lance Armstrong being as fake as Te'o's gf?

[philnotfil]

So those stories from his dad about her visiting in Hawaii, his story about meeting her after a Stanford/Notre Dame football game?

I'm not sure how they can pass this off as a hoax perpetrated against them when they were so willing to testify to seeing her in person.

[gator1986]

All the steroids are ruining his brain.. Douche

[geauxgator1]

Jerry Sandusky? Lance Armstrong being as fake as Te'o's gf?

Hyperbole.. go with it.

[GrubGator]

Lance Armstrong is the happiest guy around right now! This takes the spotlight off of him with his big Oprah pow wow tomorrow night.

[g8rfan22]

It's not like he shot the president!

He just killed off his fake girlfriend... ;)

[born2beagator]

Where is this pick of Anzalone and Teo?

[jagervol01]

Holla!!! LOL :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: ND will be a memory in the wind from now on. They make relationship decisions like they make decisions on the field.

Look at his words about this girl he NEVER even laid eyes on before.

T'eo kills stock for eHarmony. CLICK HERE (http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8851033/story-manti-teo-girlfriend-death-apparently-hoax)

"The most beautiful girl I've ever met." Manti Te'o on his fictitious girl. There is no way to spin this. He is a lying sack of crap.

[gatorinmi]

Hyperbole.. go with it.

I know, it was tongue in cheek.

[Gatorbeck]

Good day to steal a moped

sometimes i say LOL, but i dont really mean it. I literally LOL'd at this.

[secgator]

Isn't there something written or implied in the "Heisman creed" for lack of a better term---about sportsmanship, INTEGRITY, etc??? Gotta wonder just how many of those who actually voted for Te'o are having serious buyer remorse now--first, after the incredulous over rated hype about his superstar ability being exposed as a fraud against the Gumps...and 2ndly--him being an outright liar and likely, sociopathic derranged individual.

You can't make this sort of stuff up. Amazing, sad, and yet almost a relief now in reptrospect.....just imagine as one post in this thread mentioned--what if he had WON the Heisman. Geez.

[MiamiGator79]

Is it possible it's a hoax? Maybe. If youve seen the movie Catfish, you might believe it. There's only one problem with his "hoax" story...he went on record that he met her after a game against Stanford, obviously they didnt and he had to know that his online "girlfriend" would read or hear the reports of how they supposedly met. So, what's his story if he truly believed it was a real woman he was communicating with? That she also was in on the lie about how they met? I guess its possible that he was embarrassed to admit to friends/family that he had actually never met his girlfriend and agreed with "her" that they would tell everyone that they actually met at the football game, and once they actually did meet in person it wouldnt matter anyways. What a weird story. this guy is either one of the dumbest, most naive guys in the history of guys, or he is one a sick conniving SOB.

[secgator]

Well, Te'oed will now have a meaning all its own.

I forgot Law---I repped you for this one. Absolutely classic my friend.

[keefer]

WTH??? I watched the BCSNCG and I thought Manti T'eo was actually a hoax. I never saw him make a play.

[g8rfan22]

Maybe she was really a French model.... Bonjour

[GatorAvatar]

I'm holding my horses for now...

[General_Zod]

ESPNews says news conference coming up in the feed update panel.

[Headshot]

Manti Te'o jokes could become the new Chuck Norris jokes. Except the opposite.

[Howard_Sprague]

This is awesome hjahahahaahahaa

[steve6137]

So, his story is that he loved this girl, talked to her for hours every night until her death...but never met her in person, or even Facetimed with her????
Then I guess he doesn't go to her funeral????
Now that's true love, huh?
Hmmm.

[Sylez_G_Koolaid]

chastro D ‏@chastroD

What do Alabama RB Eddie Lacy and Lennay Kekua have in common? @MTeo_5 never hit it.

lol

[MiamiGator79]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSf_P38SamY

[secgator]

ESPNews says news conference coming up in the feed update panel.

ND and ESPN are supposedly already painting Te'o as "the victim"---just watch if they ratchet it up a few notches to maintain that position. This could get REALLY interesting or REALLY ugly very soon.

[WarDamnGator]

Is it possible there was an actual girl that he met, who lied about her name, and then pretended to die? I know it sounds crazy, but if several members of his family also claims to have met her ... of course, that doesn't explain that the pics were from someone else's facebook ....

[GatorBen]

http://barstool.market-safe.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/n/d/nd_angle_navy_green.jpg

[philip214]

chastro D ‏@chastroD

What do Alabama RB Eddie Lacy and Lennay Kekua have in common? @MTeo_5 never hit it.

lol

that is hilarious..these teo jokes are great

[kalaniocc]

chastro D &rlm;@chastroD

What do Alabama RB Eddie Lacy and Lennay Kekua have in common? @MTeo_5 never hit it.

lol

Haha!!

[exiledgator]

Is it possible it's a hoax? Maybe. If youve seen the movie Catfish, you might believe it. There's only one problem with his "hoax" story...he went on record that he met her after a game against Stanford, obviously they didnt and he had to know that his online "girlfriend" would read or hear the reports of how they supposedly met. So, what's his story if he truly believed it was a real woman he was communicating with? That she also was in on the lie about how they met? I guess its possible that he was embarrassed to admit to friends/family that he had actually never met his girlfriend and agreed with "her" that they would tell everyone that they actually met at the football game, and once they actually did meet in person it wouldnt matter anyways. What a weird story. this guy is either one of the dumbest, most naive guys in the history of guys, or he is one a sick conniving SOB.

Nice. Jack just referenced Catfish.

[raycgator]

Thanks for the cliff notes. So did the ND boards crash yet?

[RealGatorFan]

Manti Te'O is a moron if this is true... And I don't care if people like my choice of words if that story is true... Using someone as a means for his own personal gains, what a douche!!!!!

You can't spell mormon without moron.

[revthejedi]

Catfish itself is a fake movie though, so is the TV show. I'm not buying Te'o as the victim here.

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[exiledgator]

Jack looks uncomfortable. Touching his face often.

[GatorBen]

Just got unexplainable I think. The reporter specifically stating that his dad explicitly told him about multiple in person meetings dating back to 2009 and how does that line up.

[tilly]

I swear. I sensed this weeks ago. I never mentioned it online because of how insensitive it would seem. I feel bad because I also mentioned to those in the room that I suspected the story of his grandmother too. But I was dead on about the girlfriend. His whole interview with wojo seemed so contrived.

I thought I was just being insensitive, but turns out......

[ACCecil]

tilly i am with you.

i thought it was BS too so much so that i didn't pay attention to it. all i heard was his GF died 6 hours after his GMA died and i remember thinking that is BS but never gave it much thought after that even when ESPN brought it up every 10 minutes i just ignored it.

i wasn't "touched" by the story let me put it that way.

[WarDamnGator]

If they knew about this Dec 26th, then they've had plenty of time to get their cover story straight. The article linked on page 4 quotes Te'o's dad as saying she traveled to Hawaii a couple of times to see Te'o. It also says that she was supposed to go to a ND home game with 40 other family members, just a couple of weeks after she "died". Perhaps Te'o couldn't pull off that trick, so he pretended she died .... who knows. It's starting to sound like he may be gay. Not that I care about his sex life, but this is a pretty elaborate hoax that apparently went on for three years, so there is probably a reason for it.

[gatorinmi]

Just got unexplainable I think. The reporter specifically stating that his dad explicitly told him about multiple in person meetings dating back to 2009 and how does that line up.

Jack says they met online, yet it's been reported that they supposedly met at the Stanford game when their glances met and resulted in rainbows and unicorns.

[steve6137]

Jack says they met online, yet it's been reported that they supposedly met at the Stanford game when their glances met and resulted in rainbows and unicorns.

The only thing true in this account is the rainbow.
A rainbow flag.

[ACCecil]

ben,

i think they actually faked the girl by letting manti's dad meet another woman posing as the girl or just using pics.

i think.

either way how do you fall in love with someone you've never met?

how do you chat on the phone for hours every night with someone you've never met? WTF?

[gatorinmi]

tilly i am with you.

i thought it was BS too so much so that i didn't pay attention to it. all i heard was his GF died 6 hours after his GMA died and i remember thinking that is BS but never gave it much thought after that even when ESPN brought it up every 10 minutes i just ignored it.

i wasn't "touched" by the story let me put it that way.

Same here. Not that I thought it was fake it's just that I've know many people that have lost their grandmother and other close family members in the same year. It's just not that interesting or touching to me.

[GatorPlanet]

This certainly deserves to go back to the top!

[gatorinmi]

The only thing true in this account is the rainbow.
A rainbow flag.

Any truth that Te'o left the game and went directly to the Castro District?

[orangeblueorangeblue]

Yeah, yeah, everyone sensed the story was fake but held off expressing it until now.

Cmon, guys.

[GatorPlanet]

As someone else here pointed out, this was the supposed love of his life, yet he didn't care enough to go to the funeral?

[steve6137]

Any truth that Te'o left the game and went directly to the Castro District?

I heard that he met up with Golic and Holtz for a double reach around.

[Courfeyrac]

The Lyin' Hawaiian

[Courfeyrac]

As someone else here pointed out, this was the supposed love of his life, yet he didn't care enough to go to the funeral?

I read some article where he said "She told me not to miss a game, she would have wanted me to play" ... that was his excuse.

The 2012 season was a Manti Te'o story book, although not all of the chapters were positive. On Sept. 12, within hours, he was given news that his grandmother in Hawaii and his girlfriend at Stanford had died, the latter after a battle with cancer.

He said girlfriend Lennay Kekau "made me promise, when it happened, that I would stay and play," Te'o said Sunday night.

Stay and play he did. He was the heart and soul of a team that needed every inch of every organ to get to 12-0. That included stunning goal-line stands and dozens of pressure-packed, inspirational moments. In the middle of each was Te'o.

link: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/dec/10/sports/la-sp-1211-dwyre-manti-teo-20121211

[geauxgator1]

I heard that he met up with Golic and Holtz for a double reach around.

Wait till his girlfriend hears about that.

[steve6137]

Wait till his girlfriend hears about that.

He'll be in the imaginary doghouse.

[geauxgator1]

I read some article where he said "She told me not to miss a game, she would have wanted me to play" ... that was his excuse.

:cry:

[Sylez_G_Koolaid]

Bruh, this press conference is cray. This guy is saying they hired super secret private detectives who specialize in tracking down this electronic kind of stuff. But they can't tell you the name of the company they hired.

Sounds more believable by the word.

[MiamiGator79]

Sometimes I wish my girlfriend didn't exist

[PowerGator]

Bruh, this press conference is cray. This guy is saying they hired super secret private detectives who specialize in tracking down this electronic kind of stuff. But they can't tell you the name of the company they hired.

Sounds more believable by the word.

Nor did he say the results of the findings.

[geauxgator1]

I know, it was tongue in cheek.

:yes:

[NJG8tor]

If they knew about this Dec 26th, then they've had plenty of time to get their cover story straight. The article linked on page 4 quotes Te'o's dad as saying she traveled to Hawaii a couple of times to see Te'o. It also says that she was supposed to go to a ND home game with 40 other family members, just a couple of weeks after she "died". Perhaps Te'o couldn't pull off that trick, so he pretended she died .... who knows. It's starting to sound like he may be gay. Not that I care about his sex life, but this is a pretty elaborate hoax that apparently went on for three years, so there is probably a reason for it.

I agree. The guy lied, and I dont think it was about the Heisman or endorsements. Ill bet it was a small, personal lie that got bigger and bigger as the press zoomed in on his personal life. Is he gay? Dont know. But he sure went through a lot of effort to pretend he had a girlfriend when he could have probably been dating a Ms. Hawaii competitor.