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Manti Te'o's girlfriend who died... (1 Viewer)

I can't believe he's trying this out now. Clearly gay. Just come out with it and be done with the whole thing. Nobody will care.

 
I never subscribed to the theory that Te'o was gay, and this was an elaborate cover, but I think this opens up my mind a bit. At the very least...he fell in love talking to a guy pretending to be a girl, so he's likely got some kind of hidden issues even if he doesn't realize it.

 
theres ton of stories of other people getting "catfished" including our own Otis. Yet, making up a girlfriend to pretend your gay makes more sense? Why not just use a "real" girl as his pretend girlfriend?
 
Manti and Ronaiah are clearly an item, and this whole Lennay Kekua is all one big cover. Can you really be that stupid and not notice that your talking to a dude? And why would Ronaiah talk for hours and hours for a prank?

 
Yea....I tried to keep an open mind....but he's as gay as a tangerine.
I was a little suspicious about the receipt we couldn't see, but I assumed someone fact checked the thing before running with a story. They had to, right? 1800flowers... "Did you send this?" "Yup." "K, thanks."Then when the story came out Schaap had the phone records, I thought, "Ok, but I don't know why it took so long."Surely Te'o didn't know Tuiasosopo was going to come out with the voice change stuff, but now we're to believe Te'o talked to a dude for thousands of hours? Keep in mind, he claims he talked to Tuiasosopo in his regular voice often as well.He has to be gay. He's still lying. It's the only reason I can see where someone would continue to lie while putting out a story which makes them look as bad as this does.If this story was legit, it could have been proven with redacted phone records and gift/flowers receipts with blacked out bank/CC information. He could've had that stuff ready to release with the initial Schaap interview. The story would not have survived the weekend. If you believe Te'o is telling the truth, his PR firm is botching this whole thing.
 
theres ton of stories of other people getting "catfished" including our own Otis. Yet, making up a girlfriend to pretend your gay makes more sense? Why not just use a "real" girl as his pretend girlfriend?
There are tons of stories about people getting "catfished," sure. That doesn't mean Te'o got catfished.And yes, being a football star and telling people that the guy you're talking to every night for hours is a girl makes more sense than "I fell in love with a boy pretending to be a girl and then I sat and listened to her coma breath for a few hours every night."
 
Local radio show had an interview today with the NYT reporter who penned the story of how ESPN got scooped even though they had this news for 10 days. He said what's even more baffling than their decision to sit on the story until they could get an interview with Te'o is the fact that they are actively pushing the "Te'o was the victim" narrative fairly uncritically even today. He said didn't want to speculate on why this is, but did point out that ESPN has been criticized in the past (including by Deadspin) for being close to sports organizations and agents, often helping each do their negotiating with calculated leaks on contract issues and such.

 
This whole think is nucking futs. Now we have audio of the fake girlfriend. Really? Really? I so wish ESPN would add another channel for this kind of stuff. ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNews, ESPN Classic, and ESPN Legal News. I'm begging them. If I never hear the names Lance Armstrong, and Mantei Teo ever again it will be too soon.

 
This whole think is nucking futs. Now we have audio of the fake girlfriend. Really? Really? I so wish ESPN would add another channel for this kind of stuff. ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNews, ESPN Classic, and ESPN Legal News. I'm begging them. If I never hear the names Lance Armstrong, and Mantei Teo ever again it will be too soon.
Add Ray Lewis and I'm in.
 
http://tmz.vo.llnwd....icemails_v2.mp3

Don't know if the audio has already been posted.
Damn. Ronaiah sounds like a chick.
So... Te'o 100% had phone sex with a dude then, right? Have to figure with all those phone calls some weird stuff was being said.
from what I understand, they did a lot of talking about Scripture. so definitely some weird sutff but probably no sex
I'd like to know you better
 
Here is the guy who can supposedly fake his voice to sound like the chick in the TMZ tapes:http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tH6GIV2KNEQSomeone is lying.

 
Here is the guy who can supposedly fake his voice to sound like the chick in the TMZ tapes:http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tH6GIV2KNEQSomeone is lying.
Turkeyhill19 1 week agoI'm pretty sure you and Manti were banging each other and made up this fake girlfriend to hide it.Reply · 66 mcelmu10 1 week agoYou are one of the worst humans alive today.Reply · 40
 
So he's on Katie Couric now. I'm following through Deadspin's live blog. As they point out, this interview already failed in handling one important item that most media people felt Couric would be smart enough to mention upfront:

3:15 p.m.: Still no mention of the fact that Te'o's crisis management guru, Matt Hiltzik, is also Katie Couric's spokesman. Maybe that's coming in the credits.
The rest of it:http://deadspin.com/5978760
 
Except for the "he's lying and did it for attention" angle
 

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