Most Heartbreaking & Inspirational Story Of College Football Season Was A Hoax

[CountDeMoney]

This kid is either the dumbest, most immature, gullible person on the face of this earth or he was in on this thing in some way.

Could really go either way, honestly.

Could very well have been a PR stunt--why need more?--but then again, kids are still kids and can be dense and gullible as shit, regardless of whether they win the Butkus Award.

[mongers]

What a sad story.  First his girlfriend has a serious car accident then she goes back in time and dumps him.

Gotta feel for the guy.

[dps]

Is this going to come back to bite Notre Dame?  Now it comes out they knew about this story for weeks but didn't say anything.

Why would it?

He was the victim of a hoax. The media jumped on the story - which was very real to Te'O - and peddled him as this American hero. What, exactly, did Notre Dame or Te-O do wrong that would somehow harm either of them?

Well the jury is still out on whether Te'O was a victim or not.  The Deadspin article believed he was in on it.

But the 'dead girlfriend' was a story repeated many times to the national media.  Once they learned this story was false surely ND had a duty to tell the truth?

Well, if he didn't do anything criminal, I'm not sure that ND had any legal duty whatsoever to tell the media that they'd been pranked.  And apparantly school officials still aren't really sure just what had happened, so they probably weren't sure what to say anyway.

OTHO, if there was something criminal done and ND found out about it, their duty would have been to report it to the police, not the media.

[CountDeMoney]

More I read about this, the more goofy he and his old man come across.

[Caliga]

A Samoan face with a talent for kayfabe, eh?  Someone get this guy an interview with Vince MacMahon.

[alfred russel]

This kid is either the dumbest, most immature, gullible person on the face of this earth or he was in on this thing in some way.

Faking it would also put him in the running for dumbest and most immature too.

[sbr]

True.  At this point his best case scenario is that he is a Mormon, gay linebacker at a catholic school.

I could understand that cover up.

[sbr]

What the fuck?

Not once but twice after he supposedly discovered his online girlfriend of three years never even existed, Notre Dame All-American linebacker Manti Te'o perpetuated the heartbreaking story about her death.
An Associated Press review of news coverage found that the Heisman Trophy runner-up talked about his doomed love in a Web interview on Dec. 8 and again in a newspaper interview published Dec. 11. He and the university said Wednesday that he learned on Dec. 6 that it was all a hoax, that not only wasn't she dead, she wasn't real....

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college-football/news/20130117/teo-girlfriend-hoax.ap/?sct=hp_t2_a2&eref=sihp

[CountDeMoney]

As big as he his, must be cramped as shit in that closet.

[sbr]

I can't stop following this story, it us one if the craziest things I have heard.

[CountDeMoney]

Only thing missing is a white Ford Bronco.

And I'm not ruling that one out just yet.

[Syt]

So, during the past months, none in the media did any research about the supposedly deceased and took the information at face value? Great journalism, guys!

[11B4V]

Hmm, not a good candidate for assault weapon ownership.

[CountDeMoney]

Late Thursday evening, an independent baseball team, the Florence (Ky.) Freedom, announced it would have "Manti Te'o Girlfriend Bobblehead Day."

As part of the promotion in late May, the first 1,000 fans will get an empty bobblehead box, there will be a pretend kiss cam for fans to kiss their imaginary friends and there will be an imaginary food fight in the kids' area, as well as an air guitar contest.

[Ed Anger]

 

I love the minors.