DwayneTwill
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I don't, but seeing that he's a mormon, there's at least a possibility that he was so dumb as to not know he was being had.
Do you believe Te'o and ND?
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okeefe4prez
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Name a single Mormon who's ever been duped by a completely unbelievable story. Just one.
jesterapparel
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Only thing holding me back is that the Arizona Fullback says she does exist and he met her and still talks to her. Maybe, just maybe, he got duped and is a total idiot.
Churlish79
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ThunderHawk
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okeefe4prez
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Chicago or NYC? If Chicago, plz advz on date. I will also be in NYC next month sporadically, so if NYC and next month, plz advz on date.
Thx,
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kmajhawk
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The news media are going to get a well-deserved rectal exam over this story. Epic failures by many companies, including some very big ones: Sports Illustrated, ESPN, The New York Post, CBS, The Associated Press and the L.A. Times. The South Bend (Ind.) Tribune bit hard on this story. Of course they were not blinded by the fact a player from the local institution might be in serious consideration for the Heisman. From Poynter Institute, a journalism and media institute based on Florida:
http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/...rlfriend-hoax-became-truth-through-the-media/
Sparky
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Take a look at this. Celebrity Gossip | Entertainment News | Celebrity News | TMZ.com
The entire front page is filled with info about this and it looks as though Manti may be telling the truth but ND wanted him to keep it under wraps.
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Manti Te'o told Notre Dame officials he NEVER met his supposed girlfriend in person ... and only realized her death was a hoax last month ... after receiving a phone call from "Lennay's" cell phone.
Jack Swarbrick -- Director of Athletics at Notre Dame -- called an emergency media conference Wednesday night in the wake of the not-really-dead girlfriend scandal. Here are the highlights:
-- Manti is expected to address the media sometime tomorrow (Thursday).
-- Manti called Notre Dame officials on Dec. 26 ... and alerted them to the hoax.
-- According to Swarbrick, Manti realized Lennay Kekua wasn't dead when he got a phone call from her cell phone at an ESPN award show in December ... months after her supposed death.
-- Manti claims the woman who called from "Lennay's" phone was the same person who he had spoken with during his relationship with Lennay.
-- Manti says the woman informed him that Lennay was not dead ... because she was not real.
-- Swarbrick says Manti met with a media team, who had planned to release the story to the media next week ... but they were scooped by Deadspin.
-- Manti told ND officials he had gone to Hawaii to meet Lennay in person on several occasions, but she never showed up.
-- ND believes that Manti was targeted because he's too nice of a guy ... and the perps took pleasure in humiliating him.
Swarbrick also said, "This was a very elaborate, very sophisticated hoax perpetrated for reasons we can't fully understand but had a certain cruelty at its core."
The entire front page is filled with info about this and it looks as though Manti may be telling the truth but ND wanted him to keep it under wraps.
____________________________________________________________________________
Manti Te'o told Notre Dame officials he NEVER met his supposed girlfriend in person ... and only realized her death was a hoax last month ... after receiving a phone call from "Lennay's" cell phone.
Jack Swarbrick -- Director of Athletics at Notre Dame -- called an emergency media conference Wednesday night in the wake of the not-really-dead girlfriend scandal. Here are the highlights:
-- Manti is expected to address the media sometime tomorrow (Thursday).
-- Manti called Notre Dame officials on Dec. 26 ... and alerted them to the hoax.
-- According to Swarbrick, Manti realized Lennay Kekua wasn't dead when he got a phone call from her cell phone at an ESPN award show in December ... months after her supposed death.
-- Manti claims the woman who called from "Lennay's" phone was the same person who he had spoken with during his relationship with Lennay.
-- Manti says the woman informed him that Lennay was not dead ... because she was not real.
-- Swarbrick says Manti met with a media team, who had planned to release the story to the media next week ... but they were scooped by Deadspin.
-- Manti told ND officials he had gone to Hawaii to meet Lennay in person on several occasions, but she never showed up.
-- ND believes that Manti was targeted because he's too nice of a guy ... and the perps took pleasure in humiliating him.
Swarbrick also said, "This was a very elaborate, very sophisticated hoax perpetrated for reasons we can't fully understand but had a certain cruelty at its core."
kmajhawk
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Swarbrick is correct that this is "a very elaborate, very sophisticated hoax" but it's not clear Manti is the victim. This from the South Bend Tribune story in October:
SOUTH BEND - It never felt like a chance meeting, although it probably appeared that way from the outside looking in.
Their stares got pleasantly tangled, then Manti Te’o extended his hand to the stranger with a warm smile and soulful eyes...
Unless he witnessed this directly, where did the writer get it other than from Manti? If this wasn't true, did Manti ever seek to get the newspaper to correct it? Direct evidence this was not a hoax perpetrated on Manti.
...This Saturday afternoon at Notre Dame Stadium, three years later and half a continent away, Stanford and the Irish meet again, this time with Notre Dame ascending and Te’o right in the middle of the uprising.
The Cardinal (4-1), ranked 17th, have won three straight in the series and have pushed around the Irish in the process. ND (5-0), which started the season unranked, has pushed itself into the cusp of the national title conversation.
For the first time this season and seventh time in Te’o’s career, his parents, Brian and Ottilia, will be in the stands for the game — along with the youngest of his five siblings, 6-year-old brother Manasseh.
“They’re watching you and they're watching someone who they've given everything they have to live his dream,” Te’o said earlier this week. “My dream is to help them in their dream, too. So, it's always exciting. It's going to be a special occasion to see them in the stands.”
And Manti Te’o is convinced the beautiful stranger will be watching too Saturday, somehow.
Lennay Kekua was a Stanford student and Cardinal football fan when the two exchanged glances, handshakes and phone numbers that fateful weekend three seasons ago.
She was gifted in music, multi-lingual, had dreams grounded in reality and the talent to catch up to them.
The plan was for Kekua to spend extensive time with the whole Te’o family when upwards of 40 of them came to South Bend in mid-November for ND’s Senior Day date with Wake Forest.
“They started out as just friends,” Brian Te’o said. “Every once in a while, she would travel to Hawaii, and that happened to be the time Manti was home, so he would meet with her there. But within the last year, they became a couple.
“And we came to the realization that she could be our daughter-in-law. Sadly, it won’t happen now.”
How did Manti's papa know about Lennay's supposed trips to Hawaii and that Manti "would meet with her there" other than if told so by Manti?
This is a total fraud and all evidence suggests Manti was involved. This will not end well for him and for a lot of people.
Churlish79
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...You are so naive to believe that Manti Teo didn't know about all this WELL before December.
Even if he was duped in the beginning, he HAD TO of known it and was trying desperately to hide it, continuing a plethora of lies, making his parents lie, etc for some time.
And you truly believe that phone call happened? That it's not a final lie to try to come clean.. How on earth is it possible that Teo didn't ATLEAST know he was being duped at the time of her "death" at the LATEST.
The "death" in and of itself seems like his reaction to finding out he was being scammed.. and that's the scenario that is kindest to him out of all of them..
hawkfarmer
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Theory: Dude is gay and the easiest way to keep from ND girls hitting on him and hence him rejecting them for his teammates to realize he was gay was to have an imaginary girlfriend that he never had to see. COVERUP
phansenfanatics
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Who gives a crap?
Sparky
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Oh goody, the international response from someone too stupid to say something intelligent.
Churlish79
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This would make sense. Star player of a Catholic university can't come out of the closet while he is still at the school.
Drakebulldog93
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The same people that believed Brian Kelly wasn't responsible for the death of that student manager.
LG210
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Doesn't look like the gay angle is likely.
Manti Te'o's Teammates Had Their Doubts About Lennay Kekua
That player believes Te'o initially fell for a hoax, but carried on with it for the publicity even after he discovered the truth. That fits with what Tyler Moorehead, the Notre Dame rep for college sports network College Spun, recounts from the on-campus gossip:
The debate among teammates wasn't whether or not Manti actually knew this girl - it was clear that they had been in contact; no, players just didn't think that it was fair to call Lennay Kekua Manti's girlfriend, period (it is well-known on campus that he has had relations with other girls during his time at Notre Dame). They recognized what was going on for what it was - a terrible publicity stunt used to fuel Manti Te'o's Heisman campaign. In fact, many of the players privately commented that they didn't want the students to wear leis in support of Manti and wouldn't participate themselves - they cited that the team never responded so publicly to tragic events for other players. But there was also the feeling that Manti didn't deserve to benefit from publicity from the death of somebody he barely knew.
latrans
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So he's stupid AND a terrible person.
