This has to be about the craziest thing I've ever read. WTF!!!!

Click the link for the whole swipe.

http://deadspin.com/5976517/manti-teos-dead-girlfriend-the-most-heartbreaking-and-inspirational-story-of-the-college-football-season-is-a-hoax

Did you enjoy the uplifiting story, the tale of a man who responded to adversity by becoming one of the top players of the game? If so, stop reading.

Manti Te'o did lose his grandmother this past fall. Annette Santiago died on Sept. 11, 2012, at the age of 72, according to Social Security Administration records in Nexis. But there is no SSA record there of the death of Lennay Marie Kekua, that day or any other. Her passing, recounted so many times in the national media, produces no obituary or funeral announcement in Nexis, and no mention in the Stanford student newspaper.

Nor is there any report of a severe auto accident involving a Lennay Kekua. Background checks turn up nothing. The Stanford registrar's office has no record that a Lennay Kekua ever enrolled. There is no record of her birth in the news. Outside of a few Twitter and Instagram accounts, there's no online evidence that Lennay Kekua ever existed.

The photographs identified as Kekua—in online tributes and on TV news reports—are pictures from the social-media accounts of a 22-year-old California woman who is not named Lennay Kekua. She is not a Stanford graduate; she has not been in a severe car accident; and she does not have leukemia. And she has never met Manti Te'o.

the converse would be some fuckery of the highest order.

shit.

i hate that, lol.

There is going to be no line to not cross here or no reason to avoid talking about it because it is uncomfortable.

This is going to be straight jokes by everyone non stop for a long time.

Not in any way comparing what the stories are about.

For example the Royal wedding is bananas in England, so is the BBC rape case

Not the same story, but both on a high level of bananas.

But go head.

I KNEW IT!!!!

Lol

ha!!!!!!!!!!!

will his awards be vacated? assuming all this is true...er or uh not true? you know what i mean.

Nor killing them off in the media.

hilarious

What a strange story.

These dummies probably got the name Lennay Kekua after messing around with the letters in leukemia for a while.

>These dummies probably got the name Lennay Kekua after
>messing around with the letters in leukemia for a while.

they went deep...and it's all pretty obvious now

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the way dude was like "hey can you take a pic with MSMK written on a piece of paper?" and the stupid bitch DID IT!?!?!?

fucking awesome

this shit is all sorts of creepy

I didn't read the article but can verify that for sure. very sad.

Awesome lady, cool as hell. She loved talking about Freddie, and how he was going to the NFL, but she also used to say that her youngest (forgot his name) was the real beast in the family.

Damn. Never met the dude, but RIP Freddie Matua. My condolences Tina, miss having you around.

"i know what you're all thinking..........he'd make a perfect jet"

i love how he basically finds any way he can to hate on the jets.

I mean its gotta feel great to see your shit everywhere in less than 15 minutes.

You and the rest of the guys that contributed have to be sitting at the computer with the cursor on the post button like, "ok, here we go."

now that wouldve been something

I think

Those guys who voted for Teo over him must feel real stupid now.

totally baseless guess - he's a homer sexual

shoutout to deadspin man

>totally baseless guess - he's a homer sexual

i mean let's say he was gonna spin this, and a boyfriend/lover died. he could have gone with the "close friend" bit, and left it at that.

though someone woulda gone pokin around (pardon the pun) and possibly outed him, doing background on the story.

this?

SO MUCH WORSE.

Fuckin shithead

did he talk about it in interviews and stuff..

or was this a story that was just out there about him....

I honestly had never heard it so I'm curious.

if this was a story that Mantei put out there....and it's totally made up... I mean..that's going to hurt him in the draft probably... honesty is a character issue...

also from a cultural standpoint..this is a bit odd to me because it's been my experience that type of thing seems out of character for them as a whole.

which is hilarious. I'm not sure what would be worse, being complicit in the scam, or falling for a fake dead girlfriend hoax.

you can't just come out and be like "oh, it turns out she was fake and I got catfished. sorry bout that."

so you keep lying and hoping no one digs into it.

>falling for a fake dead girlfriend hoax.

But it doesn't sound like that's the case here.

nm

WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?

And if he didn't, there's no way Bill wouldn't respect this kind of shady work.

all of the articles I saw are written after her "death" and put in the fake events as prologue. were there any articles about Teo'o before the season that talk about him just plain old having a girlfriend in california?

or getting in a car crash should have made the news, right?

The zesty looking church choir friend... I mean.

Why else go along with this??


This is the craziest story I've read in a loooong time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXdu3pwT4ps

Seems like he could have just said they broke up or something.

faking someones death is a long way to go for someone to stay in the closet though. but this thing is so unfathomable that I dont know what to think.

and complicated than just keeping your sexuality on the DL

https://twitter.com/rembert/status/291673184749637633

How could this be thought of as a good idea?

Two, did they think it would just go away? Like if they killed her off no one would ever figure it out? How could he be that stupid? The reward ain't nowhere worth the risk.

*what I mean by that is that it's not like there were stories talking about his girlfriend, and he found out she was fake so he killed her off to try and end the story. there appears to be not a single thing written about her, her car crash, or her illness, until after she had already died.

so he didn't have a fake girlfriend that he killed off, he created a girlfriend that was already dead from day 1.

She just wasn't famous before her death. The question is whether she was made for that purpose or if it was just a dumb prank and they used the "opportunity" of his grandmother's death to create more drama and turn it into a bigger story.

This shit came out in September

Right now

i dont even know where to begin tackling this story...

just wow...and wtf



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NOTRE DAME - The inspirational, tragic story of Manti Te’o’s girlfriend who died of leukemia in September has turned out to be a hoax.

The story first broke Wednesday evening on Deadspin.com, detailing the holes and inconsistencies in the tale of Lennay Kekua, Te’o’s girlfriend. Deadspin wrote: “Outside of a few Twitter and Instagram accounts, there’s no online evidence that Lennay Kekua ever existed.”

Notre Dame responded with an official statement a half hour later, claiming that Te’o and his families were victims of a hoax. The statement reads as follows: “On Dec. 26, Notre Dame coaches were informed by Manti Te’o and his parents that Manti had been the victim of what appears to be a hoax in which someone using the fictitious name Lennay Kekua apparently ingratiated herself with Manti and then conspired with others to lead him to believe she had tragically died of leukemia. The University immediately initiated an investigation to assist Manti and his family in discovering the motive for and nature of this hoax. While the proper authorities will continue to investigate this troubling matter, this appears to be, at a minimum, a sad and very cruel deception to entertain its perpetrators.”

if t'eo claims to have met the girl in person?

unless the other dude had an actual girl he made talk on the phone and meet him up in hawaii. even then, when she supposedly got cancer was she sending texts like, "hey i got cancer, but you can't visit me in the hospital, alright bye" then "ahh i'm dead now, love you"

i don't believe him for a second

while she was on her deathbed

>unless the other dude had an actual girl he made talk on the
>phone and meet him up in hawaii. even then, when she
>supposedly got cancer was she sending texts like, "hey i got
>cancer, but you can't visit me in the hospital, alright bye"
>then "ahh i'm dead now, love you"

and since they used FB and instagram pics from an unsuspecting woman, they'd have to get a woman who looked exactly like her to meet up with him.

LETS SAY.

he meets some chick, doesn't do his due diligence. She's in CA, he's in Indiana.

they talk talk talk. She sees him from time to time, but he's not, looking at her ID or anything.

I guess twitter/phone/whatever is how he's in contact with her.

but as his star grows, she knows that she can't keep this up. Somehow someone will catch on.

So she and some friends make up the story, tell him, "dont miss games, stay there, etc etc"

and boom she's dead.

can't believe I thought that deep on it. He's likely gay and made the shit up cause someone was gonna find out.

or he's a fucking loon.

I can't call it.

let's say she's a loony stalker, who's making up some fake life to get close to a football star.

you think some 22 year old is checking out his "friend's" ID?

think about the dumb shit we did @ 20-22.

again, I don't buy it, but it's infinitesimally plausible.

aka, Manti was going on a date with a dude and told his dad it was his internet girlfriend

all the time.

Meanwhile these same old crusty jock sniffing sports journalists were accomplices in this shit while Deadspin was grinding away at a bombshell story.

Any follow up on this at all exposes the girlfriend.

even if he's straight might be worthwhile doubling down on the lies

he's sending all of those tweets to his boy

and his boy is reading them getting misty

they gay.

it's actually a somewhat brilliant strategy

He says he wanted to come out but he was afraid it would affect his team mates. he and his "friend" made up a "girlfriend" but felt guilty so killed her. play up the i was so afraid people wouldnt accept me and hope a progressive franchise feels sorry for him.


otherwise he will be undrafted and end up signed with the bengals or worse yet raiders ........... personally i'd rather come out/pretend to be gay than end up there.

kind of speechless...

my first question is Why would they do such a thing?

then...why would so many people play into it...including Mantei's father...

this is not good..

He needs to apologize publiclly and start thinkig of a story to tell these NFL teams..

I wouldn't draft the dude becasue of this....it's just too wierd...too immature..and too dishonest.

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Man....I'm dying...lol

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Dudes caught on to the gay vibe without even finishing the article...LOL

You'd think a simple follow-up on this story would have exposed some pretty glaring issues. Hell, even a b-roll shot of the grave (which I have to imagine doesn't exist either.)

I mean, many of the responses of the people in here fall along the lines of, "Why would someone even do this?" The idea of making up a dead girlfriend for whatever reason (though it's probably just to better market himself) is just beyond bizarre. When someone tells you that a relative/friend/girlfriend of theirs is dead, you tend to take it at face value. For most journalists, fact-checking that would seem like it's in bad taste.

I mean, the story always sounded weird (girl is discovered to have Leukimia after being in serious car accident), but the details were so compelling (he talks to her all night while she's in the hospital) that it made what seemed like a touching, compelling story that journalists eat up. You'd like to think that a story like that would have to be true.

Nobody ever wanted to talk to her family or friends or teachers? I mean, even to get more pictures of the girl so they don't have to run the same one over and over?
Nobody snapped a picture at the funeral?
Nobody interviews her roommate at Stanford to talk about her love for Manti?

It doesn't need to be investigative journalism. A basic follow-up on the story, rather than just regurgitating what has been fed to you, would have poked major holes in this.

Only explanation is that they didn't want to know.

he was hugging his girlfriend.

(not mine originally but too good not to share)

DURING the game when no one knew about the hoax lol

i can't talk me and my boys BEEN saying how he prolly killed her himself.

without an offer.

that was some real psychotic shit.

and when he was first called out on it he played the victim card too...

That was pretty bad, though


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that strikes me as similar.

at some point t'eo is gonna have to get up in front of a mic and cop to this. all of it.

while great writers/stories still exist... so many bring the profession down...

This:

Her passing, recounted so many times in the national media, produces no obituary or funeral announcement in Nexis, and no mention in the Stanford student newspaper.


these writers don't bother doing any homework anymore... it's the twitter affect I guess. How did anyone writing these stories not think to follow-up in any type of way about simple things like a funeral! crazy f'n story

Not a whole lot of people really have the resources for actual investigative pieces. Also, who's going to think that Teo would do some shit like this? It's so bizarre.

on it.

lemme try to find a link.

http://theoriginalwinger.com/2012-10-17-listen-to-this-manti-teos-interview-on-the-jim-rome-radio-show-mteo_5-via-jimrome

4 minute mark or so: this dude is full of shit.

GTFOH

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and made the Lennay act to disuguise the gay flirting?

making up a girl solely for a sob story to gain media time.

making up a girl to disguise gay flirting seems better, on balance.

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.

The person behind the fake Twitter account of the girlfriend is Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, Samoan former QB from California with lots of relatives who played college/pro football and is apparently friends with Teo. Him and Teo exchanges tweets about hanging out together when Teo comes to LA to play USC. Ronaiah and his family are guest's of Teo's at the stadium/on the field during the game. They exchange a bunch of other friendly twwets over the year.

I guess folks are extrapolating that suggests that Teo and Ronaiah may be gay lovers. I think it's just as likely that they're just homies and the two of them concocted the idea of a dead girlfriend together after 1) Ronaiah got into a car accident and 2) Ronaiah had used the Lennay identity before to mess with someone else (if I'm reading the article right).

who does that shit? if it became a pattern for him, i don't think he's playing a practical joke. he had to have been getting off on talking to these guys as if he were a girl.

i bet he moved from guy to guy & moved on after he knew he couldn't pull off the fake identity any longer. then he got to t'eo and something happened where they came out to each other, and they kept the story to cover up their relationship.

anyway, that's my bet in the okp pool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0ppQMMTzJ8

almost crashed lol

They knowingly "took advantage" of that news to make it sound worse and in the end more inspirational. His grandmom was real, and she REALLY died. So Manti (who I don't believe for a second is the victim of a hoax) had to sit there and come up with the idea to have his fake girlfriend die the same day. You'd have to be a real insensitive piece of shit to do something like that. Shameful as hell. If I was a family member I would be HEATED.

"the bigger the lie, the more they believe"

when he's interviewed he can conjure up some real emotion

because someone close to him really did die

That's so disrespectful and insensitive to his family.

he was supposedly very close with his grandmother. grieving from her death, I can't see him thinking "this would be the perfect time to kill off my fake girlfriend!"

but I *can* see a POS who is catfishing someone famous thinking "man, this would be the perfect time to kill off my character and make him feel even worse!"

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8851033/story-manti-teo-girlfriend-death-apparently-hoax

This is incredibly embarrassing to talk about, but over an extended period of time, I developed an emotional relationship with a woman I met online. We maintained what I thought to be an authentic relationship by communicating frequently online and on the phone, and I grew to care deeply about her. To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating. It further pains me that the grief I felt and the sympathies expressed to me at the time of my grandmother's death in September were in any way deepened by what I believed to be another significant loss in my life. I am enormously grateful for the support of my family, friends and Notre Dame fans throughout this year. To think that I shared with them my happiness about my relationship and details that I thought to be true about her just makes me sick. I hope that people can understand how trying and confusing this whole experience has been. In retrospect, I obviously should have been much more cautious. If anything good comes of this, I hope it is that others will be far more guarded when they engage with people online than I was. Fortunately, I have many wonderful things in my life, and I'm looking forward to putting this painful experience behind me as I focus on preparing for the NFL Draft.

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This is funny and sad at the same time...Shit...

SMH...

And who gets into a relationship with someone you've never even met?

Dude is SO full of shit.

^^^^^THIS IS THE KEY Y'ALL. HE LYIN!!!^^^^^

i think he might just be gay and thought having a fake GF would be a good way to hide it.

i mean, look at where he's at in the anti-gay pantheon:

Morman? check
Catholic school? check
Football? check

Pacific Islanders got family for years

>And who gets into a relationship with someone you've never
>even met?

ain't nobody gonna go up against that kinda sympathy and support from the gay community. he'd be untouchable

Was it a scam and he is the dumbest motherfucker alive or did he make it up for media attention?

How do either of those make sense at all

so one of my closest boys got scammed into a fake gf in the early days of internet and chat rooms.

He met her online somewhere and chatted with her online all the time and it eventually moved to IMs. I mean she was a real person so he was able to talk on the phone with her. The one catch--he like never saw her. Dude met her once with her sister to say hi in a parking lot and didnt see her again for like a year lol.

I think the premise of what she was doing was basically using him to buy gifts for her. He bought all kinds of stuff for her and would mail it or drop it off. When he would go drop it off, she wouldnt be there so he'd leave it in the driveway or with her sister.

Dude was "with" her for almost 2 years. Come to find out he found out she had similar relationships with at least 2-3 other dudes in different states.

Not anything near the level of this here unless he was a super extra lame socially awkward type.

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Manti told him she visited.

His family and all of us were not in on it AT ALL. We kept telling dude something wasnt right. Yea she could be busy over the course of a week, but weeks, months...shiiit.

So his family was trying to get him to see the light no kinds of collusion.

"They started out as just friends," Te'o's father, Brian, told the Tribune in October 2012. "Every once in a while, she would travel to Hawaii, and that happened to be the time Manti was home, so he would meet with her there."

it made it sound like they met in person after the game finished

as in, in person

and yeah, the visiting Hawaii adds on

the same day as the Grandmother at least implicates somebody close to him

who else knew about that immediately?

they just aired an interview where he said she was consoling him about his grandmother

the whole shit just doesn't add up

between being either stupid, dishonest, and his inability to tackle, he'd make a perfect Cowboy

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Riiiiiight.

Notre Dame and have a damn internet girlfriend whom you've never seen..

the White gurls of South Bend get butt naked and toss salads of muthafukkas like Mantei....lolol...

ain't no way in hell....lolol.

"What they look like is the conversation between Kelly and Manti that Brian Te'o overheard on Skype just after the double tragedies hit him. "I was so worried about him," Brian said, "but what coach Kelly said made me know he was with family."

This article kind of destroys any "They never met" argument.

http://articles.southbendtribune.com/2012-10-12/sports/34419536_1_brian-and-ottilia-manti-te-o-irish-head-coach/2

hats off, he's an innovator.

wtf Manti?!

>wtf Manti?!


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you know how hard it is for Samoans in southern california to root for Notre Dame?! what an idiot. Already lined up and ready for that fade if he comes to LA

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for him to be this dumb?

or

for him to be this dishonest?

I think he's better off being dishonest than this dumb in the full scheme of things.

and that the family didn't wanna be contacted.

Teo was definitely in on it. probably orchestrated it lol.

Manti Te'o Statement:

"This is incredibly embarrassing to talk about, but over an extended period of time, I developed an emotional relationship with a woman I met online. We maintained what I thought to be an authentic relationship by communicating frequently online and on the phone, and I grew to care deeply about her. "To realize that I was the victim of what wasapparentlysomeone'ssick jokeand constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating. "It further pains me that the grief I felt and the sympathies expressed to me at the time of my grandmother's death in September were in any way deepened by what I believed to be another significant loss in my life. "I am enormously gratefulforthesupport of my family, friends and Notre Dame fansthroughout this year. To think that I shared with them my happiness about my relationship and details that I thought to be true about her just makes me sick. I hope that people can understand how trying and confusing this whole experience has been. "In retrospect, I obviously should have been much more cautious. If anything good comes of this, I hope it is that others will be far more guarded when they engage with people online than I was. "Fortunately, I have many wonderful things in my life, and I'm looking forward to putting this painful experience behind me as I focus on preparing for the NFL Draft."

this is insane...

not an ounce of samoan in the lyin hawaiian

cause they couldnt confirm it.

ESPN reporters suuuuuuuuuuuuck lmao.

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Confirmed from 2 sources: ESPN has known about the Manti Te'o story for 10 days. Had been reporting it, but could not confirm.

I can see them running around, "How do we confirm that someone never existed?!"

so I don't have to watch their shitty network

Didn't they do like a whole hour of Outside the Lines on something that got rengged later?

"This bitch didn't exist?"
"Nope."

Breaking News!

Yeah for us the only confirmation we need that it was a hoax is a google search to find that she didn't exist. For a blog like deadspin they need to confirm by trying to find out a little bit more. But a mainstream source like ESPN can risk their rep by putting this out without complete confirmation by a primary source (I don't think they put an article up today until Notre Dame released a statement), because of the slight, slight chance that this WASN'T a hoax situation and he really did have a girlfriend that died? Before ESPN releases a story like that they gotta make sure that she wasn't a real person under a different name. Maybe "Lennay" was a shortened name for something else? Or maybe there's a different last name? Either way, they aren't gonna risk running something like that unless they REALLY confirm everything.

Shit, one of the Deadspin writers is a college senior on winter break and he managed to do it quickly.

ESPN dropped the ball. I assure you that there's nobody at ESPN right now who isn't furious that they fucked up and got scooped by Deadspin.

10 days though.

I just think that in today's media when the mainstream outlets have conflict of interest because while reporting stories they are also making millions of dollars on the broadcast rights, you're not going to see them break stories like this and it will be up to internet based sources like Yahoo Sports and deadspin to report it.

ESPN should be able to run down a story like this in days. There's no excuse for them dropping the ball on this.

you have to do your research, contact Tao, his family, his friends you try to research the girl, find a year book, see if you can find a police report, contact the hospital. It takes time and effort before you can simply report "Story is a fake"

ESPN has ALOT more to lose, if they get this story wrong.

>ESPN has ALOT more to lose, if they get this story wrong.

and one of the leads on the story for deadspin was a college senior. ESPN has far more staff.

ND or the NCAA (who is a partner with ESPN) may have asked them to delay the story until they could verify. i dont know. But i cant fault ESPN if they got beaten when they where trying to verify the story.

more likely, ESPN went to ND, and ND either wouldn't confirm it, or asked ESPN to sit on it.

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as good as him without the distractions.

can youu get a lb as good as teo tho?

Those dudes are on the field like 50% of the snaps these days anyway.

the way te'o struggled shredding those Bama linemen who knows how good dude will be on the next level
too slow to play outside he better get his bench rep number up or something in time for the combine lol

and not exactly someone you want to rely on in high pressure situations

And we know, "So?"

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The end.

It clearly wasn't "Reba". His pop claimed the chick flew out there to chill with old Manti. They also allegedly met after the game at Stanford in 09. Tell me how he wasn't in on this.

who was dude speaking with?

"They started out as just friends," Brian Te'o said. "Every once in a while, she would travel to Hawaii, and that happened to be the time Manti was home, so he would meet with her there. But within the last year, they became a couple."
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So he lied to his brother about meeting her?

How his boy who was behind the fake girlfriend's twitter account get into a car accident a month before the fake girlfriend got into an accident?

Sorry guys. Te'o straight lying to cover up something. Probably his sexuality but we'll see.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g196vURUDo


and the follow up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YUcMJFKZEM

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWA_jr-AwyA

They knew about it for ten days and I still can't find it.

It wasn't up for a while.

the thing that is sinking his explanation is that this twitter account can be traced to this tuiapososo dude...who he actually knows. this wasn't some random person playing a prank on you...you know this dude..

you was tweeting I love you to a twitter account owned by a dude....a dude that you knew..

Mantei honestly should just stop speaking on it....hope it just goes away....because I really don't see a way of talking yourself out of this without telling more stories that are not believable.

he was merely a conspirator in what was strictly an attempt to gain positive PR

there's also the possibility that it was all about covering up a gay lifestyle...

but i dont necessarily think it indicates that touisasopo was his 'gf'

air?

tomorrow right?

best he can do is STFU and let the media shift back to Lance

to many holes for this story to stand up

If so, how did u know?

But I'm 80% sure dude is gay

Are you fucking kidding!??!

this shit wasn't in the job description

which he in essence basically did

dumb dummy

holy shit that pc was insane

Manti is the most trustworthy guy he's ever met.....

and I've never thought that before.

you might be right, that shit is gonna be hilarious.

Reagan Mauia, an Arizona Cardinals fullback, said he believes Kekua existed because he met her in person when he and other Polynesian teammates and Pittsburgh Steelers star Troy Polamalu went to do charity work in American Samoa in June 2011. "This was before her and Manti," Mauia said Wednesday evening. "I don't think Manti was even in the picture, but she and I became good friends. We would talk off and on, just checking up on each other kind of thing. I am close to her family. When she was going through the loss of her father, I was -- I offered a comforting shoulder and just someone to bounce her emotions off. That was just from meeting her in Samoa." Mauia said Tuiasosopo -- whom Mauia believes is Kekua's cousin -- introduced the two. After the initial meeting, Mauia said he met her at an "after-party" for all of the athletes involved in the camp. "She was tall," he said. "Volleyball-type of physique. She was athletic, tall, beautiful. Long hair. Polynesian. She looked like a model ... " He said it is his understanding that Kekua's mother is operating her Twitter account. He said he'd never met her mother. When told by a reporter that she apparently might not have existed, Mauia said "No, she is real."

I give up. I give the fuck up.

he ain't helping the stereotype about Samoan male intelligence with this shit...

the stereotype is bullshit btw and i know how difficult that shit is for them to overcome.....

fellow Samoans thinking they meetin chicks or choppin it up with chicks that don't exist??

lolol..

I mean Tuiososopo got some splainin to do..

is he pimpin invisible bitches????

and say her name was lennay. she does, kicks it with them for an hour, then tuiasosopo passes along her contact information (the fake twitter he set up), where he then continues the relationship with the dudes online, sending them pics of this girl from the deadspin piece who looks enough like the girl they met that they don't question it. none of them-- tuiasosopo included-- ever sees the original girl again.

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lol

He's already neck deep in the shit. How does he come out of this with the least amount of damage? Would his best bet be to Lance Armstrong it and deny, deny, deny any involvement?

Come clean and have to explain his bat shit craziness?

Claim he's gay (even if he's not lol) and say that he was afraid of the public's perception?

i really don't see this ending well

RE: hahaha http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/2028103/teo.gif

I was offline all afternoon and perhaps the craziest story of the last 20 years breaks?

WTF?

i dunno who @justinrmegahan but he's sleuthing up some shit.

starting to seem more plausible that teo didn't know.

which is sorta even stranger.

and one of the leads on the piece is a college senior

or at least...intuitive

which he wouldn't be the first person to not be

(insert literally everyone that's fallen for a nigerian scam, which is many, many people)

what's sad is that no one in his family / friends was smart enough or aggressive enough ot say WAIT NO ONE MET THIS BITCH?!?!?!?!?!

like, at some point everyone just rode along w/ whatever they'd heard and no one asked manti where she lived or what her family was like, etc.

but you know, they're very religious so they were prolly just like aight we'll pray our way through her recovery and......


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www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

1. he's a fucking idiot. SKYPE nigga. SKYPE.
2. the show is about to blow the fuck up and wild people are gonna come out the woodworks w/ catfish stories, and attempt to catfish niggas.
3. I'd find a way to have that kid maimed for my pain and suffering.

he suspected the whole time. he is one of the smartest people i know.
he makes bank. but he cant hold a steady girl.
he kept asking her to skype and she would always have an excuse, my laptop is broke, my camera is broke, blah blah.
he was suspect, but he always got got every night on the phone. theyd be on the phone for hours. and he's always catch feelings all over again.
he finally asked us for help cause he was embarrassed.
we finally cracked the case with her IP address or some shit.
lesson learned.
this was like 5 years ago.
so i believe it can happen.

shit, it's happened multiple times ON THIS WEBSITE

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www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

stone stupid is probably overly harsh.

certainly not intuitive, though.

and his focus was actually football. she was a good distraction every night.

are the ones who are doing so by saying "I'm calling Tahir on this shit" and completely miss the irony.

is how marques tuisasopo is suddenly relevant in football discussions again.

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www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

surprised no one else has gotten there

getting too close to home. unbelievable wtf

if he didnt know, its foul that they told him his girl died right after grandma died.
if he did know, its foul that he took shine away from grandma's death

my girl didnt believe it when we first heard about it a couple months ago
she said "nah, no way someone's life is that tragic, i dont belive it"
she just gave me a "see!"

he was supposedly really close with his grandmother. it doesn't make sense for him to have his fake girlfriend die right after the real death of his grandma.

it's much more logical that someone who is shitty enough to do this to someone would be shitty enough to pile onto his grief by killing the character right after his grandmother died.

http://pepperonsports.tumblr.com/post/40728557823/teo-teammate-he-lied-but-the-media-blew-it-up

The sports world suffered a twitter-breaking case of shock and awe today with Deadspin’s piece detailing what appears to be the phony story concocted about the late girlfriend of Notre Dame star linebacker Manti Te’o. While the American public and the media sure felt duped, one of Te’o’s teammates wasn’t surprised, telling PepperOnSports.com that the players on the Fighting Irish football team smelled something fishy back in September 2012.

The Notre Dame football player, who asked for anonymity, told Pepper On Sports, “No we all knew he had only seen her once. But when the media was saying how he went through both deaths we knew,” said the source, referring to the back-to-back deaths of Te’o’s grandmother and girlfriend Lennay Kekua, who allegedly died of Leukemia.

In defense of the Heisman Trophy candidate, the source said he believes the lie may have indeed started with somebody duping Te’o using a phony twitter account, and eventually, faking their own death.

Early in my conversation with the source, the Notre Dame player said, “He lied, but the media blew it up.” In response to my follow-up question asking if the source thought that Te’o kept the story going because of the media attention, the player replied, “Yeah. Right after the Michigan game. He should have never brought her in the media. His grandma passing was enough.”

Notre Dame’s victory over Michigan State and subsequent media explosion appears to have been the turning point for the source and many of his teammates.

The source said while the players discussed their suspicions amongst themselves, they never confronted Te’o.

“We would never bring it up. But we would look at him when he would get all emotional during media about his girl,” the player said.

When asked if he thought Te’o was a good actor, the player replied, “Very good.”

he might be better off playing australian rules football. he's going to be a pariah, and the hazing? shit. i can't see how he deals with it.

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http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2013/01/17/manti-teo-told-interviewer-lennay-kekua-wrote-him-letter-before-stanford-game-31-days-after-she-died/

I'm honestly scared for him right now. Crazy people don't make the smartest decisions when they're backed into a corner like this.

More likely he just got his schedule mixed up.

n/m

a: the media does not know how to handle shit like this, see the rex ryan foot fetish shit. it's BEYOND weird.


b. the media is just as much at fault for reporting something that any fourth grader could have discovered was completely fake

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dude lied. that's not in question. the question is how deep he was in on this. it's POSSIBLE that he only knew this "girl" and only ever communicated with her online-- twitter, instagram, exchanging pictures, etc. but having an online-only girlfriend is weird. he knows that. everyone knows that. his friends probably teased him about it or started getting suspicious of the whole thing. so he got defensive and lied about the way they met (saying they met at a football game), lied about the fact that they ever met (saying they hung out in hawaii from time to time), lied about the late-night phone calls. what he didn't lie about was the fact he thought she had gotten into a car accident, got leukemia, and died, because that's what this "girl" or someone pretending to know her told him (via e-mail/twitter).

so regardless of whether he was in on this, whether this was a prank with his friend that got out of control, whether him and his boy are gay, whether he was trying to lock up the heisman sympathy/great story vote... regardless of the truth, his one and only out is this: yep, i lied. i thought i had an online girlfriend, but i was embarrassed that i'd never met her or spoken to her, so i made up a bunch of stories about her. but i really did think she got in a car accident, i really did think she had leukemia, and i really was led to believe she died. i was a stupid kid in love, i fell for someone's horrible tasteless joke, i'm sorry, the end.

anything else, and he's finished in life.

dude dug in too deep on this one. missed this part of his statement:

"We maintained what I thought to be an authentic relationship by communicating frequently online and on the phone..."

this fool still saying they talked on the phone. dude, there was no girl. she didn't exist. so you couldn't possibly have spoken to a girl on the phone. and if you did, there would be phone records, or at the least a phone number, which you could easily turn over to the police so they could get to the bottom of this in eight seconds flat and find out who played this sick joke on you. but you're not gonna do that, are you? and we know why. better just go with the gay angle now. hide behind that rainbow, homey.

Nm

there would have to be some "Prison Break" type cleverness to pull it off...

but what if there was a chick, and they met after a game, and they exchanged numbers and talked, then she was like damn you corny ass mormon...let me make up a twitter, throw some random pic up to see if you even notice. just keep the facade going for a minute, then she's like oh fuck it i'm bout to just dead myself, it's the only way out at this point...

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Schlereth is like "smh/wtf". Golic out today but is gonna come on the show in like 15 minutes. Talk about insult to injury. Greenie did hit one point that I was thinking about all evening...WHY is ND going so hard for a dude that will never play another down for them? Ole boy CRIED!!! CRIED!!!

and he met her in 2011 with Troy Palamaulu and others. WTH, man?!?

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/16/reagan-mauia-says-lennay-kekua-is-real/

What happens when Notre Dame students start to question the existence of Magical Jesus?

where nobody cares, opponent or "fan", about the team or their past.

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And to fit the narrative, he lied about details to the public. Maybe out of shame of having an online relationship.

By the time he realized it was a lie (maybe her death?) he was in too deep to publicly admit all his lying.

Basically he didn't start he hoax, but he promoted it long after realizing something was fishy.

>Basically he didn't start he hoax, but he promoted it long
>after realizing something was fishy.

...in public, to the media, after she "died." It wasn't like he was talking up having this girlfriend to everyone who would listen the entire time, or even talking her being in a car accident or having leukemia to the media. She wasn't an issue until after her "death."

But who knows what we'll find out today.

A lot of people (especially in the media) are showing their age and how out of touch they are with technology and social media by jumping to other conclusions.

>Basically he didn't start he hoax, but he promoted it long
>after realizing something was fishy.

I think he's just stupid and a sucker

>And to fit the narrative, he lied about details to the
>public. Maybe out of shame of having an online relationship.
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>By the time he realized it was a lie (maybe her death?) he was
>in too deep to publicly admit all his lying.
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>Basically he didn't start he hoax, but he promoted it long
>after realizing something was fishy.

definitely... rewatching that interview with gene wojo when he asked him last thing they talked about, that pause before he says, my grandma, seems like he was lying/making that up... I think he definitely thought she was real but once he started figuring it out he definitely milked it for all it was worth

Had a hard time believing he was that naive, but the more I hear about it, the more I think that's the case.

...(or as private as flirting with someone on Twitter can be), he was fooled. I can even believe that he bought it up until her "death." I just have a really hard time believing that he didn't know something was up when he started talking to the media about her, which didn't happened until after she "died."

Like, maybe, MAYBE the first time, when it was immediately after his grandmother died and he was using both deaths as an inspiration against Michigan St., but after that? He was lying to keep the story alive.

further, te'o knowingly lies about the start of their relationship.

the link to the tuiasosopo kid doesn't sit well with me either.

i don't believe te'o was duped at all.

from that teammate interview and a couple other things. and that's why the inconsistencies are really all about the family's statements. they knew by then and were filling in the details on something that never actually happened.

nev schulman brought up a good point. we're looking at all the facts collected at once, and it looks pretty obvious. take a naive guy who trusts people too much and spread those facts out over a matter of two years. it's a little easier to see how he got tricked. how no one else in his life pointed out the red flags is beyond me.

Click through for the audio

http://www.danpatrick.com/2013/01/17/deadspins-tim-burke-explains-how-he-got-teo-story/

Deadspin.com’s Tim Burke joined the show to talk about breaking the Manti T’eo girlfriend hoax.

Burke explained how Deadspin was contacted about the T’eo story being false and how they followed up on it. They started by Googling the girlfriend and finding nothing of substance on her.

Burke said he’d like to ask T’eo why he didn’t deny the girlfriend earlier.

Burke had an interesting take on Notre Dame’s press conference yesterday.

“If I were Notre Dame and Manti T’eo I wouldn’t have responded to this at all,” Burke said.

Burke said that the next story on Deadspin.com will be about how other outlets missed the story.

that's what Mike and Mike said this morning. And, why did he not go to the "funeral" or visit her after her car accident. Shit is just crazy.

At least for Manti... for ND I think it's odd to hold a presser over this but they are backing their guy

they were ready to go as was manti with his written statement.

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There are players in the nfl who have done a lot worse from a character perspectice *cough* ray lewis *cough*

just cause he's naive off the field does not mean he still can not be good on the field

this goes out the window if he was indeed *in* on it, but I agree basically verbatim with what smuts said above which is he was naive, then obviously took advantage of the situation a little more then he should have

2 years...

When I read this last night I was on some holy shit this is the craziest thing ever... now less then 24 hours later, I really dgaf...

life will go on for this dude... it'll always be mentioned but it's not gonna be 24/7 questioning for the rest of his career

aka a smart team pick... biggest steals in draft are always guys who fall due to some sort of "character issue" Bill has a few of those guys right now

Mandy Moore.

I put that on as I was going to bed last night & was laughing so hard I had to get up for a few minutes.

it's better than the Roger Mayweather/Floyd/Nasheem joint. By a lot.

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and then when Mantei found out about it..he was too ashamed and embarrassed so he just played along with it..

the more I think about it....I think this is the more likely possibility.

because only a sociopath would try to pull off this level of deception.

hard to understand why HE AND HIS FAMILY MADE ALL THAT SHIT UP if it was just a prank on him or he wasn't in on it.

one person adds another detail as the story gets passed along, and who WOULDN'T believe whatever story about the all american linebacker having a hot, smart poly girlfriend who goes to stanford? no one checks.

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www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

not sure we'll ever know the whole truth, but the link to tuiasosopo -- dude was on the sidelines with his fam for the USC game and hung out with him the night before if twitter records are to be believed -- and the timeline inconsistencies in the relationship perpetrated by te'o and his fam are not simply telephone type add-ons.

>not sure we'll ever know the whole truth, but the link to
>tuiasosopo -- dude was on the sidelines with his fam for the
>USC game and hung out with him the night before if twitter
>records are to be believed -- and the timeline inconsistencies
>in the relationship perpetrated by te'o and his fam are not
>simply telephone type add-ons.


the problem is you're adding things that aren't connected that way.

you're not good at logic.

if he created the hoax, why did he create it with some dude he knows?

why even need another person?

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and it's more believable to have a fake conversation between two real people than pull one off yourself?

it makes MORE sense to have a co-conspirator.

not to mention, you have to start with the assumption that manti, A YEAR BEFORE HIS HEISMAN CAMPAIGN

comes with a scheme to have a fake girlfriend....to what end again?

in what universe is this a scheme?

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The most sensible scenario is actually that he continued to do so.

He's actually probably very good at it by now.

i'm just saying something still stinks.

and if we're all so ready to say te'o is naive/ignorant enough to fall for something like this, why can't we take another step and believe he might be stupid enough to run this scam with an acquaintance? or not be smart enough to put everything together himself?

tuiasosopo will end up falling on the sword in the coming days and it will all go away. doesn't make it stink any less to me.

that he knew the person behind the alias, only makes it more believable.


have you not seen th show catfish?

have you not seen this scam RUN ON THESE BOARDS?

it's often done by someone you already know.

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www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

it's probably clouding my judgement here, but i'm with B9 below.

and now we have the fake/dead GF releasing a statement?

:)

Granted, I'm not the only one who shares it.

did you watch the movie?


he didn't know that woman.

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yes and yes.

just noting my exposure to these hoaxes is limited, so my skepticism might be different.

it's been done on these boards you're posting on in exactly this manner.

you have the real person. -- who people have even met irl

they know/interact with a second person

then they create a false identity that talks to the second person

they have MORE fake identities that back up the stories of the first one


now the fake identity suddenly has some major incident / life trauma / death

it's been done over and over, it's the way of these things.

the other element of it, is that it's usually not the person's first time doing it. they try it on different people in different situations and eventually learn how to get better at it, and how to identify a person naive enough to fall for the plot "why would this girl lie about knowing me?" doesn't occur to everyone right away.

te'o's part in this -- I think -- is that he told initial small lies about the extent of their relationship. what ele he knew and when is hard to say

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www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

now he looks bad/

if this were PLANNED, he had a natural escape route built in.

this wasn't planned. he's just that stupid


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"They started out as just friends," Brian Te'o said. "Every once in a while, she would travel to Hawaii, and that happened to be the time Manti was home, so he would meet with her there. But within the last year, they became a couple.

"And we came to the realization that she could be our daughter-in-law. Sadly, it won't happen now."


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That entire thing is a bullshit lie?

you're reading the thing you want to respond to

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So are you saying that it was the media for believing it in the first place and all the blame/ridicule belongs at the feet of Te'o and his family, or his family got got by their son's lies, or Te'o got got and everything that happened was a lie to him?

The trips to Hawaii that never happened, where and why did his dad get from? The meeting at Stanford...did that not ever really happen or was that the nexus of the con?

DM "hi manti, remember I met you at blah balh and we did bllah blah"

manti: yeah dad, there's this chick, I met her at blah blah,

manti later: yeah dad, chick is dying blah blah, etc.

dad: WE'RE ALL SO EMOTIONAL< SHE WAS THE ONE, SHE VISITED (prolly one of his other hoes, dad don't know the difference)

the tendency to embellish when you're retelling a story isn't uncommon, especially on camera, especially for really stupid people

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www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

but admittedly I'm a bit of a cynic.

if it was fake, just let it die.

All that stuff about meeting up with her just sounds like a dude trying to save face after he was embarassed on getting pranked (or trying to rationalize to friends and family while keeping up the online relationship).

Just callin a spade a spade.

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for much longer without getting any.

that really just throws a wildcard on any traditional "a man woulda at least made her skype him some tiddies" type arguments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIc8krqspIc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy1apGNBPg0

I think that would've been their best strategy instead of that gong show of a press conference.

The truth gonna come out and it's gonna get ugly on their end. I don't know if it necessarily had to be that way for ND.

Unless they would've taken a PR hit for not standing behind their boy but I think that would've been understandable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thyffmWejtM&feature=player_embedded

After realizing how deep he was into it and how much media coverage it was getting.

https://twitter.com/LennayKay?tw_i=265993595268509696&tw_p=tweetembed

L K ‏@LennayKay
It isn't fair to drag Reagan and Troy into this.. a lot of truths and myths need to be addressed here, and they will be at noon PST tomorrow

L K ‏@LennayKay
I will be releasing a statement, via twitter, between 11am and noon today.

thats a fake account obviously.

or does that make it real??

Dam now I'm shook....

I already filled my weekly OKS browsing quota yesterday. And I think if he tells us the whole truth there will still be a TON of questions. This story will confuse us all for years to come.

Say the "love of your life" died. You would not attend her funeral because you had a football game? In Michael Ian Black's words, "that makes him both gullible and a shithead".

Or a kid that doesn't understand love anyway.


Or he was in on it.

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borrowed from GD, lmao

LOL

https://mobile.twitter.com/Deadspin/status/291941831476920321

I'm raising a black fist on this one...lol

Love it....

Too fucking fabulous

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of Manti Te'o buttchugging at a disco with leprechauns.

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or something.

L K ‏@LennayKay
My statement: This is incredibly embarrassing to talk about, but I have been told by Alabama's offense that Manti Te'o is not real.

I love this shit.

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This deadspin reporting is award-caliber

http://deadspin.com/5976822/darnell-dockett-wants-to-cheer-up-manti-teo-by-taking-him-to-the-strip-club?tag=manti-te.o

This Manti Te'o business is on everyone's mind, including Darnell Dockett's. The Arizona Cardinals defensive end is sympathetic to Manti's situation, and has some interesting ideas on how to cheer Manti up:

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15 Jan 13
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DARNELL DOCKETT
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@MTeo_5 bro we all make mistakes, fuck it, Mann lets just go to KOD and ill find u what u looking for. You like midgets got a bad one 4 you.
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"KOD" is an acronym for King of Diamonds, the strip club that Dockett is known for inviting people to. There are worse places than a strip club in which to drown one's sorrows, but we're not really sure what to make of Dockett's offer to find Manti a "midget." Maybe he knows something else that the rest of us don't.

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they are basically the authority on all sports scandals involving dick pics and shit right?

when were they ever wrong?

Its the same with TMZ-

Its seems like some of the best actual journalism
authored on this gossip-ish websites. TMZ routinely
breaks serious stories before (and better than) other
news outlets.

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"I ORBITs the solar system, listenin..."

(C)Keith Murray, "

for once.

i don't go to the site often but aren't most of the stuff they put on there true? the favre scandal everyone forgot. all the stuff about the espn guys(tirico, salisbury, etc)

What jealous fuckers, too big to be effective at anything and the little guy comes and eats their lunch.

Doesn't trump own some news organizations?

That break stories.

TV show coming soon..stay tuned..

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https://twitter.com/jayRahz/status/278973792544505858

While not saying that Manti Te'o participated in or knew about the hoax that his girlfriend did not exist, a former teammate told ESPN's Bob Holtzman on Wednesday that players knew the woman wasn't really his girlfriend even though Te'o played that up as his tragic story was being told.


In September, the grandmother of Te'o died, and it was widely reported that his girlfriend died hours later. Media outlets pounced on the story as Notre Dame began their march to the title game. After Deadspin.com broke the hoax story, however, multiple media reports have said players thought that Te'o had only met Lennay Kekua once and that it wasn't really accurate to call her his girlfriend. But as condolences poured in, Te'o "played along," according to the teammate, who wished to remain anonymous.



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The teammate portrayed the move as part of the All-American's personality, telling ESPN that Te'o liked attention so much that he would sometimes point himself out to friends when he was on television.

Notre Dame acknowledged Tuesday that a story about Te'o's girlfriend dying, which he said inspired him to play better as he helped the Fighting Irish get to the BCS National Championship, turned out to be a hoax apparently perpetrated against the linebacker.


The university issued a news release Wednesday after Deadspin.com reported it could find no record of Kekua existing.

Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick said in a news conference Wednesday night that coaches were informed by Te'o and his parents on Dec. 26 that Te'o had been the victim of what appeared to be a hoax. Someone using a fictitious name "apparently ingratiated herself" with Te'o, the school said, then conspired with others to lead him to believe she had died of leukemia.

"On the morning of Dec. 26, very early morning, Manti called his coaches to inform them that while he was in attendance at the ESPN awards show in Orlando, he received a phone call from a number he recognized as having been that he associated with Lennay Kekua," Swarbrick said. "When he answered it, it was a person whose voice sounded like the same person he had talked to, who told him that she was, in fact, not dead. Manti was very unnerved by that, as you might imagine."


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Swarbrick said that, based on a report from an investigative firm hired by the school, he believes Te'o was duped into an online relationship with a woman whose death was then faked by the perpetrators of the hoax.

"I want to stress, as someone who has probably been as engaged in this as anyone in the past couple of weeks, that nothing about what I have learned has shaken my faith in Manti Te'o one iota," Swarbrick said Wednesday night.

On Sept. 12, Te'o learned his 72-year-old grandmother, Annette Santiago, had died. Te'o said he was told just six hours later that Kekua had lost her battle with leukemia.

After Notre Dame's 20-3 win over Michigan State on Sept. 15, Teo said:

"My family and my girlfriend's family have received so much love and support from the Notre Dame family. Michigan State fans showed some love. And it goes to show that people understand that football is just a game, and it's a game that we play, and we have fun doing it. But at the end of the day, what matters is the people who are around you, and family. I appreciate all the love and support that everybody's given my family and my girlfriend's family."


He was asked again about his girlfriend on Jan. 3 prior to the BCS title game, saying: "This team is very special to me, and the guys on it have always been there for me, through the good times and the bad times. I rarely have a quiet time to myself because I always have somebody calling me, asking, 'Do you want to go to the movies?' Coach is always calling me asking me, 'Are you OK? Do you need anything?' "

According to Deadspin, the only photos that have been found online that identified Kekua are actually pictures of another 22-year-old woman. That woman, not named in the report, told Deadspin one of those photos likely was shared by Ronaiah Tuiasosopo.

Friends and relatives of Tuiasosopo, a high school classmate of the 22-year-old woman, told Deadspin they believe Tuiasosopo created Kekua. Kekua does not have a death certificate, Deadspin reported. Stanford, where she reportedly went to school, has no record of anybody by that name.



A friend of Tuiasosopo told Deadspin he was "80 percent sure" that Te'o participated and did so with publicity in mind.
According to the Deadspin report, Te'o and Tuiasosopo have been in contact via Twitter, including exchanging several friendly messages last summer.

Te'o issued a statement Wednesday afternoon:

"This is incredibly embarrassing to talk about, but over an extended period of time, I developed an emotional relationship with a woman I met online. We maintained what I thought to be an authentic relationship by communicating frequently online and on the phone, and I grew to care deeply about her.



"To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating."

Te'o was a Heisman Trophy finalist, finishing second in the voting, and led Notre Dame to its first appearance in the BCS championship.
In an interview with ESPN for "College GameDay" on Oct. 2, Te'o said Kekua's last words to him were "I love you." He also said that she was "the most beautiful girl I've ever met."

Swarbrick said Te'o never met Kekua in person.

"What I will tell you, this was exclusively an online relationship," he said.


He said that he would leave it to Te'o to explain how his father Brian Te'o came to say that his son and Kekua met in person a number of times.


The South Bend Tribune reported that on Oct. 10 during a taped interview with Brian Te'o and Manti Te'o's mother Ottillia, the father said that his son and Kekua met in person after a Notre Dame-Stanford game in 2009 in Palo Alto, Calif.


"They started out as just friends," Brian Teo said, according to the newspaper. "Every once in a while, she would travel to Hawaii, and that happened to be the time Manti was home, so he would meet with her there. But within the last year, they became a couple.

"And we came to the realization that she could be our daughter-in-law. Sadly, it won't happen now."

The revelation of the hoax has been far-reaching, a Notre Dame graduate who launched a campaign to raise money for a cancer research group in memory of Te'o's girlfriend says he is "shell-shocked" to learn the woman didn't exist.

Dan Tudesco, a 2006 graduate who now works in public relations in New York, set up an online account at fundraising website indiegogo.com on Jan. 9 to solicit $5,000 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Inc. The initial pitch said donations would go to the society in memory of Lennay Kekua and in honor of Te'o, "two individuals who have been an inspiration to us through an iconic season."

Tudesco said he and three friends got the fundraising idea after a seeing a video that went viral of Te'o holding his head in dismay during the Irish's 42-14 loss to Alabama in the national championship game on Jan. 7.


The goal was to turn the loss -- and the player's sudden popularity -- into something positive.


"I think we were all kind of disappointed in the result of the game ... and the Manti story was very inspirational," Tudesco told The Associated Press on Thursday.


Notre Dame took notice of Tudesco's tweets about the fund drive and sent a university videographer to shoot an interview with him. The video was posted on the Notre Dame athletics YouTube channel Tuesday.


Tudesco said he didn't believe Notre Dame was aware of the hoax when it promoted his fundraiser.


"It would surprise me that Notre Dame would want to promote this if they knew something like this was going on," Tudesco said.


However, Notre Dame officials said Wednesday that they became aware of the hoax on Dec. 26, nearly two weeks before the championship game. University spokesman Dennis Brown didn't immediately respond to a request seeking comment Thursday.


Nobody close to the situation had spoken as of Thursday afternoon, but people in Te'o's small Hawaiian hometown of Laie are offering support for the Notre Dame linebacker.


No one answered the door Wednesday evening and no one appeared to be inside the modest, single-story wood home of Te'o's parents in the small coastal town on Oahu's northern shore where Manti Te'o was born.


But members of the mostly Mormon community said they were dumbfounded, and didn't believe he would have knowingly perpetrated such a story. The town of about 6,000 people, roughly an hour's drive from Honolulu, is home to a small Hawaii satellite campus of Brigham Young University.


Lokelani Kaiahua, 42, said Te'o's parents were her classmates, and she knew them to have strong family values they instilled in their children.


"I just don't see something like that being made up from him or having any part of that because they're not those kind of people," she said while sitting and talking with friends a few doors down from the Te'o family home. "Everybody's kind of like, 'what is going on?' "


Information from The Associated Press, ESPN.com's Gene Wojciechowski, Matt Fortuna, Ted Miller and Mike Fish was included in this report.



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Hilarious

He's a sociopath. Maybe they both are. But *this* is the dude that needs scrutinizing to bust this open.

Here he is fucking with a stranger and giving a 9-year-old lupus: http://www.tmz.com/2013/01/17/manti-teo-ronaiah-tuiasosopo-scandal-hoax-notre-dame-photo-girlfriend/

this dude has taken trolling from an art to a religion. his devotion is just mind-blowing. WHY would you troll a random old lady like this? WHY would you bring a real-life nine-year-old girl into it? WHY would you tell a random old lady that the nine-year-old girl she met is dying of lupus? lupus?! WHY?! what could he possibly be getting out of this? there's no money involved! nobody knows who this old lady is! there is absolutely NOTHING to be gained but a pure, unholy devotion to internet trolling. truly, this man is the son of satan!

this guy seems like he's a sick individual really..

i think he tricked Mantei....Mantei put extras on the relationship out of embarassment about considering what was really only an internet relationship a real relationship....

but this Tuiososopo dude is way out the box with this shit..

and I gurantee you he's going to have hands put on his because in that culture to do what he's done is not going to go over well....

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8857057/friend-says-ronaiah-tuiasosopo-confessed-manti-teo-girlfriend-hoax

*gilie face*

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how terrible espn really is

So I take this "report" with a grain of salt.

He perpetuated it no matter if he started it or not.....he had a hand inthe media hype that vaulted to him to a top 5 pick and Heisman candidate.

potential draft position..

NFL teams aren't trippin off that stuff when you're talking about high draft picks....if he weren't a good player and there was a human interest story like that maybe a team would waste a 7th round pick or give him a FA invite....but at this level that stuff is meaningless..

dude should have come clean once he realized he had been dupped...but him not doing so out of embarrssament and childish embelishment is understandable and is no where near the level of sick deceit shown by Tuiososopo in initiating this, and all the other false stories he prmotoed.

if only because the publicity of this story is going to follow him wherever he goes.

Hes a media creation. That he created, hes not a top 5 pick and before deadspin, he was.

Or if your question was literal then never since the draft hasn't happened yet. So great point.

don't tell me we believe that shit now.


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I will amend after the draft, I promise.

nobody gets drafted b/c they like your backstory, they need to think he can play in their system.

I suspect he was and is a 6 - 15 pick, I'm still putting money up w/ anyone who thinks he drops out of the 1st round

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he did what he did.

HE WAS NOT INVOLVED IN CREATING AND KILLING A FAKE PERSON

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that does not equal OH HE WAS IN ON IT AND HE KNEW SHE WAS FAKE

and anyone who thinks it does is a person that's so stupid they should be sterilized.

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AFTER the date he claims to have discovered the hoax

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8856519/manti-teo-talked-girlfriend-knowing-hoax

that's a bit beyond embellishing the details of his relationship

have you considered getting sterilized?

these quotes prove shit.

you wanted him to answer "yeah that dead girlfriend thing....might not have happene,d let me get back to you once I figure it all out chris"


that would've gone over greeeeat

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"He perpetuated it no matter if he started it or not"

according to his own story, he:
(1) lied about her when he thought she was still real
(2) lied about her once he knew she wasn't real

>(2) lied about her once he knew she wasn't real

why would he come out and tell everyone that it was all a hoax and he was duped?

OH HEY EVERYONE, THAT GIRL I THOUGHT I LOVED, SHE WASN'T REAL.

I think there is a very small percentage of people in the world that would come out and put themselves out like that after they've been clowned that badly.

He continued to lie about like an idiot and get sympathy from the country.

Hes an idiot, like stated ^^^^ there, if he DID tell the truth he becomes the national victim that he "actually"* is, instead he became an internet meme forever.


*allegedly.

The guy was obviously embarrassed about the fact that he fell for a girl that he had never met in person. Why would anyone expect him to put himself out there like that and let the whole world know that he was stupid enough to let himself be fooled like that?

Yeah, it would've been better for him if he had just come out and say it after he found out she was fake, but he didn't. There was really no point in him putting himself on blast like that. He was wrong to think that people would stop asking him about the girl, but he shouldn't be held responsible for the lie. From all the info we've heard so far, the guy is 100% the victim.

he's an idiot and a liar.


putting EXTRA on top of that claiming he's at all responsible for the hoax that was done to him, is just silly and bitchmade

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I didnt say he started the damn thing.

that you don't know about.

he had his own lie.

that is entirely separate form the scam that was run on him.


these things are different.


you want to blur the line because you don't like the kid personally

that's stupid, it's a lie, it's disingenous and it's weak.

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he lied about them meeting. he lied when stating that lennay was the most beautiful girl he ever met along with the rest of the bullshit he spewed in that interview. he (and his father) lied about their 'meet-ups' in hawaii.

te'o then continued to lie about it after the hoax was supposedly revealed.

PLEASE TELL ME HOW DUMB I AM

right now evidence points to him not being on it from the beginning but we absolutely do not know that as a fact. get a hold of this roniahah kid and he might tell a different story. or he might lie to cover up for te'o. or roniahah might've already killed himself because he doesn't want to come out and face the music and deal with a lot of justifiably angry people

if in fact te'o was not in on this from the beginning and was truly duped as you might suggest...it begs the question as to why the fuck te'o would want to maintain an online girlfriend for several years.

he was either:

-a closeted homosexual
-intensely socially awkward (which doesn't really jive with being team captain of the football team)

Neither option seems all that probable so I'll ride with him being 100% full of shit.

The idea that Te'o is just stone cold stupid and is a victim doesn't resonate with me because of the level of dishonesty that he's already displayed.

This is pretty much my take on this. Even if you want to beleive he was duped at some point his lies show him to at least be guilty of taking advantage of the situation whether he thought it was real or not. That in itself is despicable.

His dad may have said things but he never did. The word "met" doesn't mean that he met her in person.

>His dad may have said things but he never did.

Ok so the dad was lying but Manti wasn't? Does it even matter?

>The word "met"
>doesn't mean that he met her in person.

"The most beautiful girl I've ever met".....urrrr, I get what you're saying but that's a major stretch to imply that he was referring to an online encounter. Especially one in which skype was never used and apparently only 1 picture of her was exchanged?

And what about the tale of them meeting IN PERSON and 'exchanging glances' after the Stanford game? This wasn't Teo's account?

how beautiful she is?

there was a picture.

yeah, he said they met. that wasn't true.


that does not mean that he knew she was fake. if you don't understand the difference there, it's because you're an idiot.



that you can't understand how one lie about one thing, does not automatically make it a lie about another completely more ridiculous and potentially unfathomable thing


is about you having a limited knowledge of the world.

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perhaps i need to spend more time trying to cyberfuck "chicks" online to gain a better perspective of the world at large

He's clearly not serious.

I refuse to reply to that and risk gettin tuiasosopo'd

>He's clearly not serious.

but this part I don't know

yes, you assume that someone's more likely a closeted homosexual than that he got fooled by a con artist into believing he was talking to a girl online, because you're a well educated and nuanced individual.


seems likely....if you're an idiot, homophobe or some combination of the two.

but we've been here before with you

edit -- I'd LOVE to see your response if this guy went to OSU.



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>because you're a
>well educated and nuanced individual.

I'm not sure I've mentioned it in this thread. Or on this board. Ever.


>seems likely....if you're an idiot, homophobe or some
>combination of the two.

you got me, bud.

>but we've been here before with you

'we'? speak for yourself.

>edit -- I'd LOVE to see your response if this guy went to
>OSU.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! So now I have some sort of personal bias against Manti Te'o? LMAO. Ya know I've probably been posting here for 10 years or so. Which is a long damned time. Off the top of my head I can't recall having a more bizarre and nonsensical back and forth with anyone. And it's becoming not so enjoyable so I'll end it here. I just can't keep up with your intellectualism and diversified worldview.

well educated individual was facetious, right?

I wasn't implying that I know and/or give a damn, what GED, diploma or technical school certificates you have.


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>He's clearly not serious.

>
>that does not mean that he knew she was fake. if you don't
>understand the difference there, it's because you're an
>idiot.

>is about you having a limited knowledge of the world.

I'll ride with someone else in here who suggested to take your meds. yikes.

yup

and so goes the usual pattern

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>and so goes the usual pattern
>

then claiming people who do use logic are crazy because you can't bear to be insulted for your intellectual failings.

it's cool man, some of us have things that make us emotional. it's your lennay kekua.

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>then claiming people who do use logic are crazy because you

I don't recall calling anyone crazy or stupid (which you continue to do for absolutely no reason).

And I certainly wouldn't be referring to the collective logic of 'people'. I'd be referring to YOUR logic since you're kind of alone on this one.

>can't bear to be insulted for your intellectual failings.

You insist on trying to make this topic some sort of intellectual contest. That's your deal and nobody else's. It's really weird.

>it's cool man, some of us have things that make us emotional.

It's sad that this is actually your genuine assessment.

I'll take a wild stab at it and say that the topic of online relationships is something you have a great deal of personal experience with and this thread has touched a nerve.

>>then claiming people who do use logic are crazy because you
>
>I don't recall calling anyone crazy or stupid (which you
>continue to do for absolutely no reason).

oh, you were implying I was off my cold/flu meds previously in this thread? because I am, I finally got over the flu yesterday. thanks for monitoring my status so closely! it's a little creepy since I hadn't posted about it, but whatever -- it's the sentiment that counts.

>
>And I certainly wouldn't be referring to the collective logic
>of 'people'. I'd be referring to YOUR logic since you're kind
>of alone on this one.
>
>>can't bear to be insulted for your intellectual failings.
>
>You insist on trying to make this topic some sort of
>intellectual contest. That's your deal and nobody else's. It's
>really weird.


it's not a contest. it's either using your brain or not.


>
>>it's cool man, some of us have things that make us
>emotional.
>
>It's sad that this is actually your genuine assessment.
>
>I'll take a wild stab at it and say that the topic of online
>relationships is something you have a great deal of personal
>experience with and this thread has touched a nerve.

awwww, you care about my feelings bro!!!

I can't decide if my response should include a reference to finding your mom on Craigslist or in an AOL chatroom, give me a minute.



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Why are you on Te'o's nuts so hard. Were you fake dating Lennay too? Either way Te'o lied about a made up chick who supposedly had cancer and died. He got his REAL family involved. He got his REAL school involved. He even piggybacked the shit to his REAL grandmas death. Come all the way the fuck on. He's as guilty as anyone in this. I don't give a fuck if it's a hoax or not. At some point he was that this could boost his profile and ran with it. Period. Now he looks like a dumbass either way.

IF SHE DIED WHY DIDN'T HE GOT TO HER FUNERAL.

WHY DID NO ONE TRY AND CONTACT LENNAY'S FAMILY TO DO A STORY ON THEM.

THIS IS BULLSHIT.

this is how a moron's mind works.

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Just stop man. Why are defending this dude so hard. Is your last name Te'o too? There's gotta be something cause this makes no sense to be riding this hard for this dude who is either really fuckin dumb or really fuckin dishonest. I think it's a combination of the two myself.

Deadspin is still running circles arounf their "journalism". It is obvious what happened here. It's pathetic that they won't come out and point a finger at Te'o. There's no way he was this stupid. Even if it started as a hoax, look at how far it went and Notre Dame got involved in this shit too? Naw son. They fuckin knew and they rolled with it. ESPN can run all the bullshit coverup stories they want to try and save face, but this is sick.

they give NO fucks.

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