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Reading thread b4 article...although I did hear about it some today...this is gonna be great.
Te'o claims that he met someone online who was named "Lennay Kekua". He says he had a relationship with this person, and considered this person to be his girlfriend.Then the "girlfriend" got cancer and allegedly died.Then a few weeks ago he claims that he received a phone call from her number. A woman on the phone told him that "Lennay Kekua" was a hoax.So far, the mystery woman has not come forward. And no one has ever provided any evidence that "Lennay Kekua" (or any members of her family) ever existed.
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If true he really owes his teammates an apology for his play that night. He was supposed to be a team leader and it looks like he let them down big time when it mattered the most.
Relatively speaking? Not much, probably not at all. Saw one scout today say 'we don't de-value people that rob banks.' So, yea, why downgrade for this? It'll blow over at some point...
Scouts don't, but they make note of it, dig up all the dirt they can find, and then the higher ups decide how it effects the scouts' grades.
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So ####### weird.
To hide something, my guess is that he's gay. The person behind the fake gf twitter account is a friend of Ta'o. Create a fake gf and nobody on campus or on the team wonder why you're not banging everything on campus. Ta'o obviously didn't think this plan through. I'm calling it now, he's gonna be the first openly gay player in the NFL.
No team would come withing 1000 miles of him if he came out as gay.Way too much baggage and distraction for any locker room
He's going to slide in the draft regardless, but I think he slides less if he comes out as gay. Otherwise, he's just crazy, and if you were a GM, why would you want to spend a 1st or 2nd round pick on a guy known to be a head-case?
What about San Fransisco?
I'm hoping that he falls to the 2nd round and for the Raiders to trade up to get him. Stock value dropping over what? That LB from No-Such-Dame U can still play the game.
We already know Raiders and their fans have zero honor, why should this change the fact if they wanted him or not.
I kinda miss the days where someone said this and the first thing that came to mind was "skeletons"...
Should have been named Simone
I really hope you're wrong and that the athletes that we idolize deserve more credit than that.
Thats actually what the guy meant..... I found it funny too.'habsfan said:
Exactly. Makes me think that Tuiasosopo was their guest and the family felt compelled to keep Manti's personal preferences private for obvious reasons.
I'm not sure what you're getting at here? The team that drafts him has "zero honor?" There aren't any NFL teams with "honor."He'll get drafted where his talent dictates. His team's fans won't give a crap if he's crazy as long as he can make enough tackles.'Phenix said:
He came out after his playing career. There are no openly gay players in the NFL, or any of the four major North American sports for that matter.
Brian Te'o only repeated what his son told him. Brian never said that the family met Lennay Kekua -- he only said that Kekua visited Manti when Manti was in Hawaii. (Because that's what Manti told his father.)Also, I don't think Manti ever said she was a "sideline guest" -- just that he met her after the Stanford game in 2009. Obviously that's a lie, but Manti is apparently claiming that he felt like he had to make up that story because he was too ashamed to admit that he met her online.
All so strange.
Great question. This mess is very bizzare. Obviously, there is more to this story than just a "hoax".
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Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Something is definitely not right and this whole story is very bizarre and confusing, I don't understand the motive(s) at all.
Which is why even if he is gay he'd rather everyone just think he was a big dummy.And there have been plenty of known big dummies in the four major North American sports.
football, basketball, baseball and ultimate frisbee?
His draft stock would be hurt worse if he came out as gay than if he got arrested for drugs or got drunk and ran over someone. What teams don't want and can't stand is a distraction and being gay is about as distracting to the locker room environment as anything I could dream up.On the other hand if he is gay I hope it comes out before the draft because it would make for a fascinating story. How far would he fall? Would he even get drafted? If not would he have grounds to sue due to sexual discrimination? If he did land on a team as the first openly gay player on a major sports team would he be alienated from his teammates, ridiculed by fans and live a miserable shamed existence? Or would he end up being a hero to gay people and getting more endorsements and publicity than he ever could have imagined otherwise?
