The Manti Te’O Saga - merged threads.

[Rawpimple]

@jaimemaggio
Jaime Maggio
Manti Te'o just changed his facebook status from "in a relationship" to "it's complicated".

LOL

[secgator]

This is great.

http://www.sports790.com/player/?sta...l&mid=22790191

[GT Gator]

[Rawpimple]

2 more good ones

Ryan Ackerman ?@12rtackerman12
Manti Te'o's girlfriend is Miss January in the 2013 Mayan calendar.

@nfldraftscout: The holes in Manti Te'o's story only slightly smaller than the holes created by #Alabama OL in National Title game.

[secgator]

Newly initiated requirement for incoming ND recruits beginning Fall 2013:

[Gatorrick22]

Originally Posted by RayGator

And I'm sure the "dead girlfriend" will blacklist the entire Te'o family. They all are a weird bunch!

Can the girl whose picture was used by Manti Te'o sue Manti for $$$ ?

[rounds]

Originally Posted by MiamiGator79

Unless Gator Country starts selling shoes, she will never read this site

Many of us know her sister

[tilly]

Originally Posted by Rawpimple

Manti Te'o's girlfriend is Miss January in the 2013 Mayan calendar.

Wow. That's great. My favorite one yet.

[ocgator]

"SEC Real Football"
"Real Girlfriends"

or "Notre Dame; Play Like Your Fake Girlfriend Just Died".

[Gatorphenom]

Originally Posted by GATORAZ

Dang this deserves 3 rep bars. Very nice job GatorAZ.

[GatorAvatar]

Originally Posted by Rawpimple

@jaimemaggio
Jaime Maggio
Manti Te'o just changed his facebook status from "in a relationship" to "it's complicated".

LOL

Lolz

[lerxst6]

The thing I don't understand (if he was duped) ... If half if what I've heard about how much opportunity for "dating" there is for NCAA football players is true, why would you carry out this foolishness for YEARS??

I've met a few guys who weren't even stars at big programs and it sounds like they had plenty of fun with willing participants. I didn't ask details but it sounds like the opportunity was literally always there.

[jdiggy03]

Can we post on Michigan board to have blow up doll day next year. They play notre dames first road game...week 2

[Mr_Littlejeans]

Te'owing

https://twitter.com/utkjg/status/291...877248/photo/1

[tilly]

My ND College Gameday dream. The entire crowd holding up invisible signs...or at least hundreds of blank ones...for the entire broadcast.

[col_kurtz]

Originally Posted by geauxgator1

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

Rep 2 U

[wygator]

Probably the best thing you could say if giving Te'o the complete benefit of the doubt, is that it started maybe without his knowledge. It grew and took on a life of its own and when he found out, he didn't know how to get out of it.

[DrewLaing]

This will be Te'o for the rest of his playing career. Kind of sad really

[philnotfil]

Some interesting commentary on Notre Dame's priorities.

Manti Te'o's bizarre soap opera moves the school's president to tears, while Lizzy Seeberg's suicide is ignored

Less than a day into the Manti Te’o revelations, we’ve heard more about a fake dead girlfriend of a Notre Dame football player than a real dead girl. Lizzy Seeberg committed suicide, not long after being intimidated by Notre Dame football players for reporting a sexual assault by one of their teammates. A second woman who was taken to the hospital for a rape exam declined to formally accuse another Notre Dame football player after getting a series of bullying texts from players.

The handful of people who immediately took note of the contrast in the attention — both by the press and by the university — are absolutely right to be angry. But no one should be surprised.

We don’t know everything about the Te’o saga yet, but there is probably only one fake dead girlfriend mythologized by the sports media, the existence of “Catfish”-ing as a verb notwithstanding. Whereas there are legions of stories of sexual violence against women and men by star athletes and staff, who can reliably count on the impunity offered by fandom. Confronting the former is a little embarrassing: The public equivalent of loving too much, the allure of a heartwarming story everyone wanted to believe. Confronting the latter requires uglier, more difficult self-examination, and accepting collective responsibility costs more.

It matters, too, how we can talk about each story. Some Manti Te’o Twitter jokes were instant classics; no one decent can make jokes about a girl who killed herself after being told, “Don’t do anything you would regret,” and “Messing with Notre Dame football is a bad idea,” according to Melinda Henneberger’s reporting. Henneberger, a Notre Dame alum, wrote in the Washington Post in early December that she won’t be cheering for the team. “As a thought exercise, how many predators would have to be on the team before you’d no longer feel like cheering?” she wrote. (She also said, “There are plenty of good guys on the team, too, I’m repeatedly told, And oh, that Manti Te’o is inspiring. I don’t doubt it.” Very few did.) It’s easier to just change the subject and not think about whether there is something endemic to football culture that enables sexual entitlement with the reasonable assumption of getting away with it.

[ufgator4ever]

Laugh if you want, but Jaguars will likely take Te'o's fake, dead girlfriend in the first round.