Manti Te'o's girlfriend who died... (5 Viewers)

[Good Posting Judge]

To address GPJ's question from a few pages back, being duped to this degree is FAR worse than being complicit in the scam.

Your middle linebacker typically has to be one of the smartest guys on your defense.

The question for GMs becomes, does naive = unintelligent in a football context.

He must've had a really easy courseload, or someone "helping" him out. Which isn't to throw shade at ND specifically, but the entire college/athlete system.

You can't hold a college and it's athletes responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole college and athletic system? And if the whole college and athletic system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to Teo, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America!

I'm not going to get into my standard rant here, but I think the idea of "amateur athletics" is, by and large, hooey.The Euro footy teams got it right over us on this one, I'm afraid.

 

[Raider Nation]

To address GPJ's question from a few pages back, being duped to this degree is FAR worse than being complicit in the scam.

Your middle linebacker typically has to be one of the smartest guys on your defense.

The question for GMs becomes, does naive = unintelligent in a football context.

He must've had a really easy courseload, or someone "helping" him out. Which isn't to throw shade at ND specifically, but the entire college/athlete system.

You can't hold a college and it's athletes responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole college and athletic system? And if the whole college and athletic system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to Teo, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America!

I'm not going to get into my standard rant here, but I think the idea of "amateur athletics" is, by and large, hooey.The Euro footy teams got it right over us on this one, I'm afraid.

 

[Novice2]

http://www.theonion.com/articles/i-was-one-of-several-people-duped-manti-teo-tells,31020/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=standard-post:headline:default

Marty Ice is not an elite QB says Roddy White

 

[Furious Styles]

So now there really is a girl?

 

[shadyridr]

So now there really is a girl?

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/revealed_the_real_voice_of_fake_GfkurlQYJF0ZA6zzYtJmWI

 

[pantherclub]

So now there really is a girl?

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/revealed_the_real_voice_of_fake_GfkurlQYJF0ZA6zzYtJmWI

wtf is going on with this story?

 

[Billy Bats]

So now there really is a girl?

Sure, you're surprised?

 

[shuke]

So now there really is a girl?

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/revealed_the_real_voice_of_fake_GfkurlQYJF0ZA6zzYtJmWI

WHAT???

 

[phrozen]

So now there really is a girl?

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/revealed_the_real_voice_of_fake_GfkurlQYJF0ZA6zzYtJmWI

WHAT???

 

[jomar]

So the people who said you could DEFINITELY tell this was a guy pretending to be a girl may have been wrong?

 

[badmojo1006]

So now there really is a girl?

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/revealed_the_real_voice_of_fake_GfkurlQYJF0ZA6zzYtJmWI

:smh:

 

[Idiot Boxer]

So the people who said you could DEFINITELY tell this was a guy pretending to be a girl may have been wrong?

No way pantherclub could be wrong. Every possible definitive assertion he's made all along has been proven true.

 

[Billy Bats]

So the people who said you could DEFINITELY tell this was a guy pretending to be a girl may have been wrong?

Two of those three voicemails sounded like a girl to me.

 

[pantherclub]

So the people who said you could DEFINITELY tell this was a guy pretending to be a girl may have been wrong?

No way pantherclub could be wrong. Every possible definitive assertion he's made all along has been proven true.

and you?

 

[Idiot Boxer]

So the people who said you could DEFINITELY tell this was a guy pretending to be a girl may have been wrong?

No way pantherclub could be wrong. Every possible definitive assertion he's made all along has been proven true.

and you?

Find one false assumption on my part in the thread.

 

[pantherclub]

So the people who said you could DEFINITELY tell this was a guy pretending to be a girl may have been wrong?

No way pantherclub could be wrong. Every possible definitive assertion he's made all along has been proven true.

and you?

Find one false assumption on my part in the thread.

Find one for me first

 

[Idiot Boxer]

I doubt we see idiot boxer in here anymorejust brutal

One.

 

[jamny]

Is there some kind of time stamp on those phone calls?They could have been made last week using transcripts.

 

[belljr]

I'm starting to come around on the theory that Te'o is a gigantic dummy.

This is beginning to look like the most plausible.

Yeah, I'm sticking with this.Just got done watching the Katie interview. He comes off equal parts naive, dumb and pathetic.But I believe he was never in on it.

This is where i am, and i have no idea on his grades, easy classes whatever but there are plenty of "smart" people that are dumb bastards

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I'm starting to come around on the theory that Te'o is a gigantic dummy.

This is beginning to look like the most plausible.

Yeah, I'm sticking with this.Just got done watching the Katie interview. He comes off equal parts naive, dumb and pathetic.But I believe he was never in on it.

This is where i am, and i have no idea on his grades, easy classes whatever but there are plenty of "smart" people that are dumb bastards

Fred Sanford would have a good name for him.

 

[B-Deep]

So the people who said you could DEFINITELY tell this was a guy pretending to be a girl may have been wrong?

No way pantherclub could be wrong. Every possible definitive assertion he's made all along has been proven true.

and you?

Find one false assumption on my part in the thread.

Find one for me first

hgere is what i knowyou've been banging the gay drum like you own it, and now the chick's voice you were sure was a dude is a chickI am not accusing or anything, but perhaps you should back off a tadif we know anything in this case it is that we know nothing, it gets stranger by the day

 

[B-Deep]

I'm starting to come around on the theory that Te'o is a gigantic dummy.

This is beginning to look like the most plausible.

Yeah, I'm sticking with this.Just got done watching the Katie interview. He comes off equal parts naive, dumb and pathetic.But I believe he was never in on it.

This is where i am, and i have no idea on his grades, easy classes whatever but there are plenty of "smart" people that are dumb bastards

 

[mr roboto]

pantherclub is a less intelligent and less subtle LHUCKS

 

[pantherclub]

So the people who said you could DEFINITELY tell this was a guy pretending to be a girl may have been wrong?

No way pantherclub could be wrong. Every possible definitive assertion he's made all along has been proven true.

and you?

Find one false assumption on my part in the thread.

Find one for me first

hgere is what i knowyou've been banging the gay drum like you own it, and now the chick's voice you were sure was a dude is a chick

I am not accusing or anything, but perhaps you should back off a tad

if we know anything in this case it is that we know nothing, it gets stranger by the day

where did I say that

 

[Plorfu]

pantherclub is a less intelligent and less subtle LHUCKS

This is almost like bringing up Hitler in a thread.

 

[mr roboto]

pantherclub is a less intelligent and less subtle LHUCKS

This is almost like bringing up Hitler in a thread.

Sorry...

 

[shuke]

http://tmz.vo.llnwd....icemails_v2.mp3Don't know if the audio has already been posted.

Damn. Ronaiah sounds like a chick.

Yeah maybe I am biased cause I know the truth BUT that barely sounds like a woman

lol

 

[TobiasFunke]

Fun to watch the rest of the FFA get a taste of what the ACC Basketball thread has had to put up with for years.

 

[Joe T]

pantherclub is a less intelligent and less subtle LHUCKS

unpossible

 

[mr roboto]

pantherclub is a less intelligent and less subtle LHUCKS

unpossible

Have you read the thread?

 

[B-Deep]

So the people who said you could DEFINITELY tell this was a guy pretending to be a girl may have been wrong?

No way pantherclub could be wrong. Every possible definitive assertion he's made all along has been proven true.

and you?

Find one false assumption on my part in the thread.

Find one for me first

hgere is what i knowyou've been banging the gay drum like you own it, and now the chick's voice you were sure was a dude is a chick

I am not accusing or anything, but perhaps you should back off a tad

if we know anything in this case it is that we know nothing, it gets stranger by the day

where did I say that

sorrymay have gotten you confused with someone else

 

[Mr. Pickles]

So now there really is a girl?

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/revealed_the_real_voice_of_fake_GfkurlQYJF0ZA6zzYtJmWI

WHAT???

 

[jplvr]

If Manti Te'o was telling the truth and covering nothing up, he would have released some actual phone records. No one believes he's actually telling the truth, do they?

 

[Joe T]

pantherclub is a less intelligent and less subtle LHUCKS

unpossible

Have you read the thread?

absolutely not.

 

[Joe T]

If Manti Te'o was telling the truth and covering nothing up, he would have released some actual phone records. No one believes he's actually telling the truth, do they?

I think the 'truth' is somewhat subjective. Do I think he was fooled / hoaxed? Absolutely.

 

[jplvr]

If I take my phone to Pago Pago and call Shuke, does my phone number show up on Shuke's caller ID?

 

[jplvr]

If Manti Te'o was telling the truth and covering nothing up, he would have released some actual phone records. No one believes he's actually telling the truth, do they?

I think the 'truth' is somewhat subjective. Do I think he was fooled / hoaxed? Absolutely.

I think that's assured. Deadspin reported Tuiasosopo used the alias on someone else previously... in the initial story.

 

[Sweet J]

Fun to watch the rest of the FFA get a taste of what the ACC Basketball thread has had to put up with for years.

Preach on, brother.

 

[dickey moe]

Nobody, NOBODY, knows what the #### is going on.

 

[Mr. Pickles]

So now there really is a girl?

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/revealed_the_real_voice_of_fake_GfkurlQYJF0ZA6zzYtJmWI

Solid 5.

 

[Joe Summer]

So now there really is a girl?

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/revealed_the_real_voice_of_fake_GfkurlQYJF0ZA6zzYtJmWI

Geez, it's like an episode of "To Tell The Truth." "Will the real fake Lennay Kekua please stand up!"

 

[culdeus]

This #### just got something other than real.

 

[HughHoney]

As soon as I heard that voice leaving those messages, I knew that chick was no higher than an offdee 6.

 

[JHuber77]

As soon as I heard that voice leaving those messages, I knew that chick was no higher than an offdee 6.

"She" is Samoan, practically anyone who has ever seen a true Samoan girl could have figured that one out

 

[mrip541]

This whole thing just doesn't make any sense. If he's trying to cover up being gay, that's believable, but multiple people conspiring to create a fake girlfriend, talking for hundreds of hours on the phone, involving family, lying about many things, claiming to fake being a girl when you didn't, etc. is simply insane. I don't understand why somebody would do it. What were they getting out of it? Mind blown.Either he's gay and is now getting other people to help cover it up after he figured out that his original plan was ridiculous, or all parties involved are clinically insane.

 

[Dinsy Ejotuz]

This whole thing just doesn't make any sense. If he's trying to cover up being gay, that's believable, but multiple people conspiring to create a fake girlfriend, talking for hundreds of hours on the phone, involving family, lying about many things, claiming to fake being a girl when you didn't, etc. is simply insane. I don't understand why somebody would do it. What were they getting out of it? Mind blown.Either he's gay and is now getting other people to help cover it up after he figured out that his original plan was ridiculous, or all parties involved are clinically insane.

Pretend you're gay. And that you live in an insanely religious environment where coming out is more than frowned on. And that you're connected to lots of men that you'd like to talk to, but can't.Maybe Ronniah could pretend he had a real relationship that was forbidden to him any other way. And he could punch way above his weight, with a celebrity! Not saying that's how it went down, but it seems a lot more likely than Manti being in on it now.

 

[Billy Bats]

This whole thing just doesn't make any sense. If he's trying to cover up being gay, that's believable, but multiple people conspiring to create a fake girlfriend, talking for hundreds of hours on the phone, involving family, lying about many things, claiming to fake being a girl when you didn't, etc. is simply insane. I don't understand why somebody would do it. What were they getting out of it? Mind blown.Either he's gay and is now getting other people to help cover it up after he figured out that his original plan was ridiculous, or all parties involved are clinically insane.

Pretend you're gay. And that you live in an insanely religious environment where coming out is more than frowned on. And that you're connected to lots of men that you'd like to talk to, but can't.Maybe Ronniah could pretend he had a real relationship that was forbidden to him any other way. And he could punch way above his weight, with a celebrity! Not saying that's how it went down, but it seems a lot more likely than Manti being in on it now.

A very possible reason, makes sense.But now what is the girls story? Did she love him too? Maybe they're just two jagoffs with nothing better to do.? Either way, they need to talk to a professional.

 

[cstu]

Tino, in her mid-20s, lives in Pago Pago, American Samoa.

Oh come the #### on.The guy's lawyer comes out and says that his client changed his voice to a woman and now some chick in Pago Pago was talking to Te'o?

 

[Dinsy Ejotuz]

This whole thing just doesn't make any sense. If he's trying to cover up being gay, that's believable, but multiple people conspiring to create a fake girlfriend, talking for hundreds of hours on the phone, involving family, lying about many things, claiming to fake being a girl when you didn't, etc. is simply insane. I don't understand why somebody would do it. What were they getting out of it? Mind blown.Either he's gay and is now getting other people to help cover it up after he figured out that his original plan was ridiculous, or all parties involved are clinically insane.

Pretend you're gay. And that you live in an insanely religious environment where coming out is more than frowned on. And that you're connected to lots of men that you'd like to talk to, but can't.Maybe Ronniah could pretend he had a real relationship that was forbidden to him any other way. And he could punch way above his weight, with a celebrity! Not saying that's how it went down, but it seems a lot more likely than Manti being in on it now.

A very possible reason, makes sense.But now what is the girls story? Did she love him too? Maybe they're just two jagoffs with nothing better to do.? Either way, they need to talk to a professional.

Good question. We need a :throwshandsup: emoticon.

 

[badmojo1006]

TMZ is reporting that Dr Phil landed Ronaiah Tuiasosopo.