January 17th, 2013 at 10:35 AM ^
TREMENDOUS.
That is all.
January 17th, 2013 at 2:42 AM ^
January 17th, 2013 at 6:50 AM ^
Is the best explanation I have read so far.
January 17th, 2013 at 3:10 AM ^
Maybe if you would have gone to Stanford like me you would be better at spelling my name correctly.
January 17th, 2013 at 3:26 AM ^
January 17th, 2013 at 5:01 AM ^
If I'm dead how did I call Manti on December 26th? He still loves me and we're getting back together. You'll see.
January 17th, 2013 at 5:53 AM ^
this account. Strong work.
January 17th, 2013 at 6:20 AM ^
E-FACT: Manti and I met on Haloscan.
January 17th, 2013 at 6:54 AM ^
This is funny, but given that that's a picture of a real person (whose image was used apparently without her consent), I don't think you should use it as your avatar.
January 17th, 2013 at 7:26 AM ^
Whatever, Reba. You're just jealous because Manti is with me and not you.
January 17th, 2013 at 8:30 AM ^
As some wag on Deadspin said. . .
January 17th, 2013 at 9:59 AM ^
Atleast block her eyes out or something....
January 17th, 2013 at 7:40 AM ^
It's called the internet. Nothing is yours.
January 17th, 2013 at 7:09 AM ^
Good luck.
January 17th, 2013 at 7:46 AM ^
Sorry, but I give this profile 5 FAKES out of 5.
January 17th, 2013 at 10:07 AM ^
Maybe you ARE Ace!
This internet is a confusing place.
January 17th, 2013 at 3:31 AM ^
All I know is that this probably brightens up Brian, and every Michigan fans day after the bad weekend.
January 17th, 2013 at 3:48 AM ^
Not sure whether I am participating in schadenfreude or not, but this story is so bizarre that I am trying to read everything about it.
January 17th, 2013 at 4:24 AM ^
Ok something I just thought of....
I was thinking Te'o was in on it.
BUT... If he was, why would he even go to Swarbrick about the phone call? Swarbrick didn't call Te'o in, Te'o approached him.
At that point the hoax had been a success.... If Te'o was in on it, what's the play, by going to Swarbrick at that point? If Te'o was in on it, he had absolutely nothing to gain by going to Swarbrick....
Unless... Either Te'o caught wind of the Deadpsin story developing (I don't know how) and went to Swarbrick as pre-emptive cover, or, Swarbrick caught wind of the deadspin story and called Te'o in and changed the narrative in the press conference saying that Te'o came to him.
One thing I do know is either way, Te'o comes out of this looking awful. He is either immensely, immensely naive, or a manipulator of sociopathic proportions. And if there was a cover-up and he was in on it, who else knew? His family? Kelly? Swarbrick? If any/all of them caught wind of what was going on, they certainly have motive to participate in a cover up.
This whole thing is just so mind-blowing. So much to think about and I'm a sucker for a good mystery.
In any case, there's a special edition of Catfish in Te'o's future, since he either got Catfished or IS a Catfish.
January 17th, 2013 at 6:02 AM ^
I would guess that Notre Dame knew something was brewing for a time and DeadSpin forced their hand.
I don't really believe Notre Dame's version of events at all, however, so take that for what you will.
January 17th, 2013 at 6:36 AM ^
I'm guessing that Teo and his friend made the girlfriend up to appease his family for some reason, and as the family started asking questions, they developed more and more elaborate ruses to satisfy the parents' inquiries, the whole thing started spinning out of control, so they made the dumb move of having her die, in an attempt to get out of the lie without consequences, but someone in the family talked to reporters about the relationship and death, making the whole thing public. An elaborate lie to appease a nosy parent that spun out of control makes a lot more sense than almost anything else. But of course if that is true, he's lying through his teeth right now and ND is covering its ass by not really investigating and just being happy with a Teo lie because its the most convenient for them.
January 17th, 2013 at 12:43 PM ^
January 17th, 2013 at 1:32 PM ^
I don't see how people can dismiss such extravagant as not a big deal, especially when the only apparent motive for lying is personal gain. That's a major character flaw. If I was an NFL owner, I'd make damn sure Te'o wasn't in my team's locker room.
January 17th, 2013 at 2:03 PM ^
It's not the biggest scandal in the world, but if "Reba" really had her photos used without permission to create this fake girlfriend, I feel pretty bad for her.
January 17th, 2013 at 7:22 AM ^
Also, if he wasn't in on it, how did he never see her at all through the at least 2 years he was supposedly dating this girl? 2 years is a very long time to be with someone and never see them on either Skype or for normal people in person. So strange...
January 17th, 2013 at 8:23 AM ^
January 17th, 2013 at 8:47 AM ^
Two years and you haven't met? Either she's really a man or some obese woman pretending to be a model. How do you "date" someone for 2 years, but never meet???
If you have gone two years without seeing this "amazing" model in person, I have to believe that you're one ugly dude who is desparate to have someone "beautiful", even if you never actually get to see her in person to touch her, hug her, kiss her..
Something really fishy about that.
January 17th, 2013 at 9:05 AM ^
January 17th, 2013 at 9:12 AM ^
good sir. I hope anyway.
January 17th, 2013 at 9:33 AM ^
his joke --------> up here
your head -------> down here
EDIT: unless your response was also a joke and not serious, in which case this applies to me.
January 17th, 2013 at 9:07 AM ^
A new theory I'm hearing is that he and Tuiasisopo (sp?) were gay together, which I can honestly see being the case. But I really think it started as a little white lie and escalated into something he couldn't control, so he decided to just keep going with it because he wanted some Heisman pub. Te'o is now my absolute least favorite player and I hope that jackass goes undrafted (un-possible, but I can dream). He's still gonna lose a shit ton of money either way.
January 17th, 2013 at 9:53 AM ^
January 17th, 2013 at 10:15 AM ^
two dollars and thirty cents, or hope for his sake that that's the case. I'd say it's all pretty entertaining and no one got killed, or at least we think so.
EDIT: Actually, if the subtext is that he's gay and made the whole thing up as some kind of elaborate dodge then. . . tragic; I take back my comment. Hope if that is the case and no one has really suffered everyone can move on quickly. The kid is going to carry this one for the rest of his life.
January 17th, 2013 at 4:23 AM ^
I thought someone misspelled "Lanai", this fictitious girl friend coulda been called "veranda", sounds like a womans name as well.
The whole thing seems lame and creepy/stalky and why did Manti go on about it in interviews, makes him seem pretty dumb or dishonest, neither one is a good trait.
January 17th, 2013 at 8:54 AM ^
January 17th, 2013 at 10:18 AM ^
He's the supposed leader of a National Championship contending football team. When you think of leaders, you don't think: lonely, socially awkward and immature. He soaked up and played the media on this story over and over (he sure wasn't awkward then). He may have been pushed to do so, but that doesn't matter. The "kid" isn't 12--he's an adult who made the decision to either "make up a fake girlfriend's death from leukemia and play the hero in the face of cancer card" or at the very least "let an online relationship escalate in the media to this love story full of embellishments." He could have stopped this many times. He chose not to for either personal gain or due to very poor decision making. It's hard to have a lot of sympathy for him.
January 17th, 2013 at 4:51 AM ^
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January 17th, 2013 at 7:17 AM ^
I have concluded that there is only one reasonable explaination for this...
Manti Te'o is Kip Dynamite.
January 17th, 2013 at 10:49 AM ^
Can someone put Manti's head on this GIF? Chunkums? Someone?
January 17th, 2013 at 7:22 AM ^
January 17th, 2013 at 7:23 AM ^
I had to force myself to go to sleep because I had read the same information over and over. I figured if I went to sleep the 5 hours that passed might bring new info.
January 17th, 2013 at 8:50 AM ^
and was up til 1am reading about this story. I am absolutely riveted by the magnitude of this train wreck.
January 17th, 2013 at 7:31 AM ^
Fake girlfriends are a dime a dozen. Dead fake girlfriends are worth a lot more.
January 17th, 2013 at 7:41 AM ^
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January 17th, 2013 at 8:14 AM ^
I was listening to Steve Czaban on my way into work this morning and he was openly speculating that Manti is a homosexual and created the entire thing as a cover since he's at a Catholic university and that's when I realized this was going to get massively ugly quickly.