Moxie Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 http://deadspin.com/5976517/manti-teos-dead-girlfriend-the-most-heartbreaking-and-inspirational-story-of-the-college-football-season-is-a-hoax I don't know who to believe. He seems so "above" this kind of thing but it seems so odd that it was all a hoax. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joker Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 I really can't believe he wasn't a part of the whole thing. It's even more bizarre if he wasn't. I thought his own dad said he visited with this girl several times in Hawaii, but now it looks like they're saying he never met her. :confused1: The information out there right now seems to be so weird. If he was in on it, was it to gain sympathy to try to win the Heisman? I really don't get it at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmilyK Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 I think he clearly knew based on the Deadspin article, but I don't really understand the motivation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie G Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Have you heard of the tv show called Catfish? I could easily see this being the case here. Manti might have been in on it, but it also could have been a case of being duped. Maybe I'm too much of a Pollyanna but I hope he was duped instead of being in on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmilyK Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 It seems like the simplest explanation is that he's gay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joker Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 It seems like the simplest explanation is that he's gay. Why? It seems to me, if he was in on it, it was to bolster sympathy votes for the Heisman. Once he lost it all came out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmilyK Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Well, it occurred to both me and my husband separately after reading the Deadspin article. The cousin or family friend (forgetting which) who was behind the account -- I could imagine that either they were lovers and this was a way to communicate, or that he was willing to help Manti construct a beard. (He has many reasons to not want to be out as gay.) I can't imagine a highly successful football player having any trouble getting real life girlfriends. The friend was in a car accident around the same time as the "girlfriend" and was often found when the family expected to see the girlfriend. It is also more sympathetic than doing it to get PR for the Heisman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arghmatey Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Maybe he lied to his dad about meeting her so he wouldn't look like an idiot. Maybe he lied to a lot of people about meeting her so he wouldn't look like an idiot. People lie all the time to save face. I still don't feel too sorry for him, although if I was his friend, I would still *try* to be nurturing. My thought would be that people get screwed over all the time with or without Twitter or the Internet. If I knew him, I might just give him a hug and refer him and his parents to an Internet safety class. Or I might just say, "Okay, let's stop telling people about this now and move forward." Not too nurturing. Like I said, I'd try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jennynd Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 SIGH.... I am a Notre Dame graduate. It is really rather embarrassing. I liked the guy. Liked him a lot and now this. It is hard to believe that while he said he love that girl and he never thought to go visit her when she had cancer?? it is very strange. To defend the university, Notre Dame didn't have to go public on this. This is Manti's personal issue. However, I wish ND made this public before the Heisman announcement. Maybe they need time to verify it?? I don't know. I heard Manti told the university a week before Heisman. It is become very embarrassing right now. No wonder we loss the championship game.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moxie Posted January 17, 2013 Author Share Posted January 17, 2013 The more I read, the more I think he is just THAT naive. I don't believe he would make up a girlfriend and then kill her off after a year just for publicity. I might be wrong in the end but that is where I'm at. He is either super naive or an evil genius. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 It's so bizarre. I don't understand why if he believed they were so in love he wouldn't have ever met her in person or tried to attend her funeral. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitten18 Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 SIGH.... I am a Notre Dame graduate. It is really rather embarrassing. I liked the guy. Liked him a lot and now this. It is hard to believe that while he said he love that girl and he never thought to go visit her when she had cancer?? it is very strange. To defend the university, Notre Dame didn't have to go public on this. This is Manti's personal issue. However, I wish ND made this public before the Heisman announcement. Maybe they need time to verify it?? I don't know. I heard Manti told the university a week before Heisman. It is become very embarrassing right now. No wonder we loss the championship game.... He says that he got the phone call on 12/26 from the girl that he thought was the dead girlfriend. He met with the university official that day or the next day. This would have been a couple weeks after the heisman. I don't know what to think. I would like to believe him... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gingersmom Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 I first heard about this on the news this morning. It sounds like he was duped and is embarrassed now but who can you believe anymore (thank you Lance Armstrong!). I was at the laundry mat several weeks ago and watching Dr. Phil (or one of those shows). And it was women who had online "relationship" with a person they had never met. These women thought they were in love and planning a life with someone they had never met. Turns out it was a women not a man they had been corresponding with and talking on the phone with. If its true he is obviously not the first person to have had this happen to. His just happened to occur in a public forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moxie Posted January 17, 2013 Author Share Posted January 17, 2013 Really, who stops to think, "Could the person I'm chatting with be fake? Is an elaborate hoax being played on me"?? I can see how he fell for it. It is too bad that those around him never questioned the relationship but I can see how a nice guy could get taken like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joker Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 I could see how anyone could get fooled like this until the point she claimed to have had lukemia and been sick. Why would he not go see her then? I really don't see how someone could say they were in a serious relationship but never try to see them when they're dying. What about her funeral? Did he not want or try to go to that either? Just being fooled into a relationship, I get. It's the dying and death I don't quite understand. Especially with the timing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unsinkable Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 I could see how anyone could get fooled like this until the point she claimed to have had lukemia and been sick. Why would he not go see her then? I really don't see how someone could say they were in a serious relationship but never try to see them when they're dying. What about her funeral? Did he not want or try to go to that either? Just being fooled into a relationship, I get. It's the dying and death I don't quite understand. Especially with the timing. Here is a chilling article about illness and the Internet: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-lying-disease/Content?oid=15337239 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unsinkable Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 I don't know what the truth is, nor have I decided what my opinion is. But as to why he didn't see her when she was dying...Maybe Notre dame wouldn't let him go? Maybe "she" insisted he stay. Maybe the "death" wasa surprise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armymomma Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 I just wonder why he didn't skype her. Very strange story. I hope he was fooled. It was almost too strange to make up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsheresomewhere Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 The more that comes out on this story just makes the thing weirder. TMZ has even more odd things posted about this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrincessMommy Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Here is a chilling article about illness and the Internet: http://www.thestrang...nt?oid=15337239 the link doesn't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unsinkable Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 the link doesn't work. Hmmm...I just clicked on it and it worked. If you want, the website is called the stranger. The article is called the lying disease by cienna Madrid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beaners Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 the link doesn't work. It was working when I read the article earlier today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrincessMommy Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 It was working when I read the article earlier today. Isn't that weird. I've tried several times today and it's never worked. I even tried backing up on the url but it didn't work :001_huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unsinkable Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Isn't that weird. I've tried several times today and it's never worked. I even tried backing up on the url but it didn't work :001_huh: Did you try googling the title and author? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spryte Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Here is a chilling article about illness and the Internet: http://www.thestrang...nt?oid=15337239 That article is truly disturbing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unsinkable Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 That article is truly disturbing. Indeed. But the parts about not being able to use all our "bullsh!t detectors" when we're online is a good point. I thought of that when a PP mentioned why did Manti not go HMMM? When he heard about the leukemia? If it all isn't a hoax. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 I doubt his victim story, especially after seeing the timeline. Incidentally, the person who owns (or hacked into, perhaps?) the @lennaykay Twitter account, which he made multiple tweets to previously, posted this today: "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." :001_rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravelingChris Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 I think he is gay, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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