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Did Manti Te'o lie about dead girlfriend?

Discussion in 'Football: NFL, College, High School' started by macho87, Jan 16, 2013.

  1. CometsWin

    CometsWin Breaker Breaker One Nine

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    I'm leaning towards it being a lie or Manti being seriously weird. In three years he never used Skype or face time with this girl? The chick, love of his life, was in a car wreck, got leukemia, and died but he never went to see her? Ever? That is hard to believe. In three years, mr star college player is having an online relationship with all the hotness he would be seeing on campus? That is really really hard to believe.
     
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  2. tecmotexans

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    I bet Lance Armstrong was involved in the hoax......to deflect the attention away from his Oprah interview today!!!!!
     
  3. Surfguy

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    sounds like he was friend zoned and then end zoned to me. girlfriend?
     
  4. BigBenito

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    Yeah, hopefully he has a good agent that is taking care of him. He is apparently training at the IMG academy in florida
     
  5. DonnyMost

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    Screw an agent. The man is going to need a therapist and support group. The entire country is laughing at him.
     
  6. REEKO_HTOWN

    REEKO_HTOWN I'm Rich Biiiiaaatch!

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    They knew each other or at least met because Ronaiah had pictures of he and Te'o on his Instagram that was deleted yesterday.
     
  7. BigBenito

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    Well, by good agent, I mean someone that has provided a therapist and offered to fly his family out to him - while allowing him to keep his mind off of the whole affair by creating a structured environment that allows him to primarily focus on training.

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  8. Air Langhi

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    Why aren't SI, Espn, CNN, ABC etc getting any blame:

    http://deadspin.com/5976640/espn-re...ot-sure-what-most-people-would-do-differently

    They didn't find a obituary or an accident report? Red flags must have been going off at that point.
     
  9. GRENDEL

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    Gene Wojciechowski was really upset at himself as a reporter when he was being interviewed on ESPN. Said all those redflags should have told him something was up but he fell for the story hook line and sinker.

    http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/76300/video-wojo-reflects-on-teo-interview
     
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  10. underoverup

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    Lol, he didn't even make her a normal girl she was a volley player for Stanford that looked like a model... :rolleyes:

    It's strange that none of the girls on the volleyball team heard about this and said, 'uh that person isn't on the team and Te'o isn't dating even of us.

    :grin:
     
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    <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/yBPm2Xom_y4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
     
  12. rocketsjudoka

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    THis is one thing I am wondering about. Deadspin said they found the woman who was in that picture and she is claiming to not even know who Manti Te'o is but given there is some third party testimony to having met this woman could it be possible she is, if not the instigator, a very willing participant in the hoax?

    Just weird all around and the gay angle might be possible but another possibility that I haven't heard much talk about is whether Manti Te'o might have some mental issues. One symptom of schizophrenia is interacting with people that aren't there so could it be possible that Manti Te'o wasn't out to deceive to cover up but actually had a delusional relationship?
     
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    That's why we should all be sending him #BeWell energy...
     
  14. droopy421

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    Strangest thing I've heard in awhile. So at 2pm we should know more from the LK twitter account?

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  15. Smokey

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    Son you got catfished on national television.

    If I were an NFL team, I'd pass.
     
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    My concern for him is that this has really screwed him up with the BBWAA and ruined his chances to get into the Hall of Fame. You can now probably put him in with the steroid users and guys with character issues.
     
  18. Air Langhi

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    If he doesn't make it in football he should try out for Hollywood. He fooled a lot of people.
     
  19. Isabel

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    From http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/2013/best-jokes-manti-teo-fake-girlfriend/


    Alabama Crimson Tide
    @RollTide Manti Te'o wasn't missing tackles in the National Championship, he was hugging his girlfriend.


    Jadeveon Clowny
    @JadeveonClowny If you having girl problems I feel bad for you son Manti Teo has 99 problems but a girl ain't one.


    Faux John Madden
    @FauxJohnMadden On the bright side for Manti Te'o, his relationship was probably better than any Taylor Swift has had.



    Daniel MacEachern
    @DanMacEachern Manti Te'o might see his draft prospects drop but he should probably be No. 1 in the fantasy draft.


    Scott Rabalais
    @ScottRabalais Having covered the #BCS championship game, I have my doubts whether Manti Te'o exists, too.
     

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