Manti Te'o's dead girlfriend is a hoax

[trapper82]

My biggest question is how, in 2013, does someone get away with this for that long. JOURNALISM FAIL!

[WallStreetCock]

Originally Posted by Flameout12

some just don't care, and of course some just can't think for themselves.

In this city I think this is the majority. Some don't care enough about college football to even read up on. They're more pissed about the Giants not making the playoffs.
And the rest are just lazy and will take what ESPN/Sports Illustrated/CBS feed them over a site like deadspin.
I work with a lot of Ivy League and other prestigious School alums that don't have the same college football love we do. Very intelligent people but even they don't care enough to look into it. While the alum that went to college football schools know damn well this guy was not "duped"

[LegalCock]

Wow this is a weird story.

[GH]

Originally Posted by trapper82

My biggest question is how, in 2013, does someone get away with this for that long. JOURNALISM FAIL!

I don't know. Someone tried this on cockytalk and was expose relatively quickly

[LegalCock]

It was always kind of weird that he shared that. Like an internet girlfriend who he only dated for four months. Just talk about your grandma and keep the other stuff to yourself.

[CockaThaWalk]

[mick66]

The only way this week could get any worse for American sports heros is if we find out Lennay Kekua was actually Tim Tebow.

[Mick Chicken]

Originally Posted by mick66

The only way this week could get any worse for American sports heros is if we find out Lennay Kekua was actually Tim Tebow.

[FloydTheBarber]

Originally Posted by FLCock89

So Te'o might have actually been duped. If you're a Twitter user, I would go check out the feed of @justinrmegahan.

He dug up some tweets from December and January of two users (@ceeweezy51 and @jayrahz) who clearly knew that the hoax was happening and were even tweeting about it being fake.

For example:

(Jan 7) "@jayrahz: I wonder if the real Lennay Kekua is watching the game.. Cause I know the fake one that didn't die is not watching over the Irish! #Ronaiah"

Ronaiah being the first name of the guy who is supposedly responsible for the fake Lennay account. This whole thing is so ridiculous and crazy.


Edit: link for a summary of the mentioned tweets: http://www.buzzfeed.com/jpmoore/two-...o-fake-girlfri

How would 2 people joking about whether his gf was real or not prove he was duped?

[Gamecock Rob]

So we've had the hit of the year and the story of the year. What the hell are we supposed to do for the next 11.5 months?

[GH]

Lance Armstrong ‏@ livewrongTour7
Thank You Manti Te'o for all you have done for me

[trapper82]

Originally Posted by CockaThaWalk

Now that's a funny picture.

[FloydTheBarber]

Originally Posted by Mick Chicken

This is so full of awesome, its mind-boggling.

[spareparts]

The supposed "girlfriend" will be speaking publicly. Will it be a virtual press conference? As in, "I do not exist, but if I did exist, this is what I would say"?

[Mick Chicken]

Originally Posted by FloydTheBarber

This is so full of awesome, its mind-boggling.

Yea, it's the tits.

Mantim Te'obow? Maybe...it's like when Paul died from the Beatles...the clues are all out there...we just have to find them and put them all together. Sounds like a job for Nic Cage

[landlocked]

Originally Posted by FLCock89

The key will be that Tuiasosopo guy. If he comes out and says, "Yeah, it was me and Te'o never knew,"

ND's checkbook ensures this will never happen. Nothing personal, but the Catholic Church has been know to play a little fast and loose with facts in the past.

[Mick Chicken]

Originally Posted by spareparts

The supposed "girlfriend" will be speaking publicly. Will it be a virtual press conference? As in, "I do not exist, but if I did exist, this is what I would say"?

She already released a statement:


"



"

[hellraiser24]

Originally Posted by LegalCock

It was always kind of weird that he shared that. Like an internet girlfriend who he only dated for four months. Just talk about your grandma and keep the other stuff to yourself.

It was a publicity stunt. He knew she wasn't real and he was in on it the whole time.

[Garnet girl]

Teo will have to go on Oprah and tell all if he wants to begin to clear his name.
Somebody more clever than I am needs to start a thread of the one line zingers.
I bet somebody already has book rights and a movie is being considered.
Who will play Manti?

[Cheezy]

So Te'o was dating the Tupac hologram?