http://www.slate.com/articles/video/...l_clinton.html


thought the above would apply for this thread.

and notredame fan, who knows? certainly gave him a lot of extra publicity, an si cover, etc. why would someone 'date' a person he never met for three years?

And you know this how?

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013...iend-hoax?lite

9 questions....so far.

the last one, the motive? can think of one named heisman, if teo were involved. if he wasn't, then this is one long-lived 'hoax'-and what would be the motive in that case??


imo, these last two are the ones that really raise questions:

8. Carrying out the hoax would have been a full-time job involving more than one person. Te'o claims he would spend all night on the phone with Kekua while she was in the hospital. There were purported communications from family members. Who would have had the time to orchestrate it? By the same token, how would Te'o have been able to create and maintain a social-media profile for Kekua on his own?

9. Where's the motive? A central figure in the hoax is reported to be musician Ronaiah Tuiasosopo. Deadspin reported that he had contact with the woman, a former high-school classmate, whose photos were used to create Kekua's profile -- even obtaining one of the pictures from her directly. But the site also describes Tuiasosopo as a friend of Te'o, raising the question of why he would humiliate his buddy.

I think Notre Dame studied damage control at Penn State.

The AD said last night he told them12/26.

yet on 1-3 he was still talking about her....

http://gawker.com/5976782/how-to-tel...tag=manti-te.o

How To Tell If Your Friend's Internet Girlfriend Is Not Real

:tro:

If your friend's girlfriend "just loves giving blowjobs; if anything, her love of giving blowjobs has *increased* since we've been together"...
...That girlfriend is: not real.

cause he likes men and didnt want his Mormon family and college teammates to find out.

that is the ONLY thing that makes sense.

Especially since Te'o is friends with the person who made up the fake girlfriend.

I'm also suspicious of any guy who claims his girlfriend's favorite flowers are roses. Because I don't know of any woman whose FAVORITE flower is the rose. And white roses? Srsly? Could that be more of a cliché?

(Okay now I'm sure all the male DTers will tell me that no, really, their wives/girlfriends/mistresses/etc. favorite flowers really are white roses. Really.)

I myself like snapdragons, which are impossible to give as cut flowers because they wilt almost immediately. So my better half is off the hook about those things. ;)

Ronaiah Tuiasosopo and Manti Te'o are lovers. Ronaiah's father is a pastor and they are big in religion. Te'o's a mormon and a football stud. So they make this story up to throw everyone off on the gay thing. Ronaiah and Te'o break up.. so they create this death thing as the death of their relationship. Come december Ronaiah wants to get back at Te'o and threatens to expose the fake gf thing. That's when Te'o makes up the "i was duped" story and goes to Notre Dame with it.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

it's a better story than what's been put out in the last few days.


and risk, i'm with you...except no flower is my favorite. hubby knows not to buy me any, i view fresh flowers as a waste of money. dead within days. i can buy books with that money, thank you very much!

the snoopdogged version:

http://gizoogle.net/index.php?search...le+Dis+Shiznit

Wow this is dumb

This guy knew she was fake for a long time.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobile...n_2492653.html

so did this guy:

http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/3d28...16e7042f517906

and isn't it funny timing that he realized it was 'all a hoax' right after the heisman voting concluded?

Saturday Night Live comedian Seth Meyers @sethmeyers21: "These Te'o jokes are all very funny but let's all try and remember that a person who never existed is dead."

Former Ohio State player turned sports blogger Mark Titus ‏@clubtrillion:"Protip: Get your Te'o jersey now. By the time Halloween rolls around, you'll forget about this and blow the chance to be Te'o & his fake GF."

Yahoo! Sports' Dan Wetzel @DanWetzel: "I have to say, inventing a dead girlfriend is the boldest Heisman stunt ever. Makes a Times Square billboard seem quaint"

ESPN college basketball analyst Dick Vitale: "Don't know what to believe in MANTI soap opera-heard from insiders that they could identify those involved in hoax !NEED TRUTH FROM TE'O NOW"

Houston Chronicle columnist Jerome Solomon @JeromeSolomon: "Don't believe a person can be as gullible as Te'o apparently claims he was? Why do you think Nigerian prince's send so much email?"

ESPN college basketball analyst Jay Bilas: "The Manti Te'o story is the most confusing boyfriend-girlfriend situation since Jan Brady and George Glass. Bizarre."

NBC Universal's Michelle Beadle @MichelleDBeadle: Crying?!?! There's no CRYING in fake girlfriend death hoax bs extravaganza!!! #Manti"

Jenn Sterger @jennifersterger: "Show me a dude that openly admits to having an online relationship with a girl. That's NOT in a kitchen with Chris Hansen."

Johnny Manziel @JManziel2: "#MindBlown"

Cleveland Browns player Scott Fujita @scottfujita99: "Is it weird that I had no idea who this Te'o guy was until about 5 minutes ago? But not nearly as weird as this story! WTF?!!"

Andy Behrens ‏@andybehrens
In lieu of flowers, the Kekua family asks that you provide banking details so that we may transfer the sum of USD $14 million. URGENT

Please take 2 minutes and watch this from the makers of the movie catfish.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobile...n_2498345.html

They're probably pretty unbiased. It's not like they have anything to gain by convincing people this thing happens to people...oh wait.

Your right, I'm done on here lol cya guys maybe in a year or so.

Not at all.

I realize you are a very biased fan and can't open your mind enough to believe it, but it is not a reach to think that Te'o could be gay and this fake woman was his beard.

and the guy from the movie said someone contacted him a month or so ago about all this-a bid by the girl whose f/b photos were used to get a tv show spot perhaps?
no, that's silly...no one would perpetrate a hoax for publicity and a tv show.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/...59E5H720091018

All I know is thanks to this damn scandal I've got an earworm of "She's Not There."

Well let me tell you 'bout the way she looked
The way she'd act and the colour of her hair
Her voice was soft and cool
Her eyes were clear and bright
But she's not there

If the Zombies had only managed to work in white roses and all-night telephone calls, they'd be hailed as prophets.

Best t-shirt evah!
http://m.nypost.com/p/news/national/...HCcFF2HpitSAjO

or sooner...

We can't wait! :rolleyes:

he was visiting this morning, that's why i put 'or sooner' above.

No, what is dumb is creating a fake girlfriend when you are a popular nationally exposed football player.

I would also say people who believe that he wasnt in on the hoax are also dumb. Or at least incredibly stupid. I bet you believed Lance Armstrong also when he said he didnt cheat.

i know i sure believed him... :D no, wait. i never paid attention, cause it was cycling. yeah, the feeling wasn't belief, but apathy!


what is truly dumb is someone not only creating a fake g/f, but perpetuating the story and adding in tragic circumstances...and a death to boot. the dumbest part? thinking no one would ever catch on.

The moment we were all waiting for
 

http://www.theonion.com/articles/i-j...adline:default

Another homer for the Onion

:tro::D

In the words of George Castanza "Jimmy Crack Corn and I don't care"

if a fake girlfriend dies, and no one goes to the funeral, is she still dead?

I honestly think this scenario is quite plausible, and if it isn't Te'o brought it on himself. The facts remain that a NFL locker room may in fact be about the least tolerable place in the world for a gay man. A fairly high 1st round draft pick I think it is safe to say may not want to be an openly gay man in the NFL or society. The fake, then dead girlfriend could be his beard for his entire NFL career in his mind as to never having to have interest in any other women as none would measure up to his "dead" love of his life. It makes more sense than seeking Heisman votes I think. You've got religion involved....a Mormon kid at a Catholic university. Lots of it makes sense...I'm buying Antitrust's rumor as well and sticking to it, I think it makes the most sense.

i can understand the faking of a g/f in that situation (my daughter was a friends 'date' at his folks holiday dinner before)...but making up car wrecks, life-threatening injuries, cancer, etc...that just seems to be taking things waaaaaay too far.
when was the car wreck supposedly? was that last years' heisman-vote getting effort?

Mistakes were made!!!!!

We've pretty much gotten to the point where real life is more comedic than the Onion. We are now to the point where we don't need the Onion. We simply have real life.

I buy antitrusts take on the situation, that's all I'm saying. Since Te'O's the only one who really knows what went on, he needs to come clean, until then it's all about the rumours!!

lol

i'm all for comedic real life. one thing that got me was when i read that teo's dad 'adds color to stories'. in other words, he likes to make up stuff...i guess the apple didn't fall far from the tree.
and i agree with the sportswriter who said the longer teo stays mum, the worse it looks.
i said yesterday that anti's thought is plausible-but when one adds in all the added drama and accompanying attention from si and others, well it makes the motive that much more interesting. maybe multiple motives? maybe they decided to embellish once they got started? dunno. hell, the sky's the limit when one is inventing a person and story. nice touch, killing her off the same day as granny. that's a good sense of timing and adding to the tragicomedy of events.

and i guess everyone has seen the new meme, replacing tebowing and eastwooding? now it's teoing. various pictures of you with your made up g/f.

Thats a lot of "sock work"