Manti Te'o's girlfriend who died... (2 Viewers)

[mad sweeney]

Sorry, but this is going to add absolutely nothing to the conversation but a good My link

Just some severe brutality going on. My favorite

 

[(HULK)]

So any chance T-sopo was at the '09 Stanford game? He knew Te'o via the giant "family" that exists in the Samoan/Hawiain culture, and was there, and remembered him meeting some hot girl? 2 years later he pretends to be that girl on twitter? Te'o can't really tell her from the picture because his memory of her face is 2 years old?Something like that is possible I suppose. Its either that or he's ####.

 

[mad sweeney]

Waiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit...now Reagan Mauia says that she existed, he met her, and was very close to her!http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/16/reagan-mauia-says-lennay-kekua-is-real/OK, now this is making a bit more sense. I'm guessing "Reagan" is a transgendered person that became close to multiple players, and at some point ended it. And when Manti found out "she" was a "he", he felt it easier to say she died and be done with it.

the NFL had a transgendered player? that would be a pretty huge story I think.

I thought everyone knew about Elway?

 

[dgreen]

Finkle is Einhorn. Einhorn is Finkle. Einhorn...is a man!

 

[roadkill1292]

This new twist makes Captain Quinoa's "Lola" parody even more brilliant.

 

[sporthenry]

Waiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit...now Reagan Mauia says that she existed, he met her, and was very close to her!http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/16/reagan-mauia-says-lennay-kekua-is-real/OK, now this is making a bit more sense. I'm guessing "Reagan" is a transgendered person that became close to multiple players, and at some point ended it. And when Manti found out "she" was a "he", he felt it easier to say she died and be done with it.

the NFL had a transgendered player? that would be a pretty huge story I think.

I thought everyone knew about Elway?

Or Ray Finkle.

 

[dhockster]

"There's a little Tuttle in all of us. In fact, you might say, we all made up Tuttle"Up until now, my favorite fake person

 

[mquinnjr]

Sorry, but this is going to add absolutely nothing to the conversation but a good My link

Just some severe brutality going on. My favorite

Yes, today was the day I learned what the term "catfishing" meant.

 

[dgreen]

So any chance T-sopo was at the '09 Stanford game? He knew Te'o via the giant "family" that exists in the Samoan/Hawiain culture, and was there, and remembered him meeting some hot girl? 2 years later he pretends to be that girl on twitter? Te'o can't really tell her from the picture because his memory of her face is 2 years old?Something like that is possible I suppose. Its either that or he's ####.

And maybe Tui found stumbled across a pic of a woman on facebook who looked kind of like that girl at Stanford and he uses it to set this whole thing up?

 

[sporthenry]

So any chance T-sopo was at the '09 Stanford game? He knew Te'o via the giant "family" that exists in the Samoan/Hawiain culture, and was there, and remembered him meeting some hot girl? 2 years later he pretends to be that girl on twitter? Te'o can't really tell her from the picture because his memory of her face is 2 years old?Something like that is possible I suppose. Its either that or he's ####.

And maybe Tui found stumbled across a pic of a woman on facebook who looked kind of like that girl at Stanford and he uses it to set this whole thing up?

And then he got a girl/himself to portray a girl on the phone and talk for hours upon end to Manti about God and such keeping a straight face (voice).

 

[dhockster]

Rob Parker: "So in light of all we know, is Te'o a Samoan, or a cornball Samoan?"

 

[jomar]

So any chance T-sopo was at the '09 Stanford game? He knew Te'o via the giant "family" that exists in the Samoan/Hawiain culture, and was there, and remembered him meeting some hot girl? 2 years later he pretends to be that girl on twitter? Te'o can't really tell her from the picture because his memory of her face is 2 years old?Something like that is possible I suppose. Its either that or he's ####.

And maybe Tui found stumbled across a pic of a woman on facebook who looked kind of like that girl at Stanford and he uses it to set this whole thing up?

I still think its a little far-fetched that a start football player at ND would fall in love with a random girl from the internet without visiting her one time over the past year. this isn't Kip Dynamite were talking about. this guy had thousands of women within a 10 mile radius he could've had. I mean, seriously, I have my whole summer off and the love of my life lives in Cali and I don't go to see her one time? or maybe I tried but she kept avoiding the meeting yet I still keep professing my undying love for her? then she's in a car accident, still no visit? then in a hospital for leukemia and still no visit? there wasn't a day or two in there I could fly across the country?sorry, but I can't buy the fact that he wasn't involved in this. could be wrong I guess...

 

[Billy Bats]

He also claimed in an ESPN interview that he would call her every night for 4 weeks(?) while she was in the hospital and talk to her for 8 hours until they went to sleep - if I'm running a catfish scam on him thats a LOT of work to continue on a nightly basis. As people are saying above - for what High fives and yuks?

Yeah under the he was duped theory this would be one of the many white lies he told because he was embarrassed about either having an online girlfriend or being tricked. Clearly he wasn't talking to someone who doesn't exist for hours on a nightly basis.

A fishing plus embellishment on his part to show a deeper relationship with an online girlfriend.So what of the perpetrators? Are they possibly criminal scammers, or just stupid people with time on their hands?I guess the story is so interesting to me is because I can't believe people would think and do something like that, it would never cross my mind. Just proves my theory is the less people you talk to, the better off you are in general.

 

[shader]

So any chance T-sopo was at the '09 Stanford game? He knew Te'o via the giant "family" that exists in the Samoan/Hawiain culture, and was there, and remembered him meeting some hot girl? 2 years later he pretends to be that girl on twitter? Te'o can't really tell her from the picture because his memory of her face is 2 years old?Something like that is possible I suppose. Its either that or he's ####.

And maybe Tui found stumbled across a pic of a woman on facebook who looked kind of like that girl at Stanford and he uses it to set this whole thing up?

I still think its a little far-fetched that a start football player at ND would fall in love with a random girl from the internet without visiting her one time over the past year. this isn't Kip Dynamite were talking about. this guy had thousands of women within a 10 mile radius he could've had. I mean, seriously, I have my whole summer off and the love of my life lives in Cali and I don't go to see her one time? or maybe I tried but she kept avoiding the meeting yet I still keep professing my undying love for her? then she's in a car accident, still no visit? then in a hospital for leukemia and still no visit? there wasn't a day or two in there I could fly across the country?sorry, but I can't buy the fact that he wasn't involved in this. could be wrong I guess...

I don't buy it either. Not for a second.

 

[Moe.]

So any chance T-sopo was at the '09 Stanford game? He knew Te'o via the giant "family" that exists in the Samoan/Hawiain culture, and was there, and remembered him meeting some hot girl? 2 years later he pretends to be that girl on twitter? Te'o can't really tell her from the picture because his memory of her face is 2 years old?Something like that is possible I suppose. Its either that or he's ####.

And maybe Tui found stumbled across a pic of a woman on facebook who looked kind of like that girl at Stanford and he uses it to set this whole thing up?

And then he got a girl/himself to portray a girl on the phone and talk for hours upon end to Manti about God and such keeping a straight face (voice).

It seems like a lot of people are hung-up on these supposed phone calls. I think no matter which theory you believe in at this point we should all be able to agree that these phone calls didn't happen. Regardless of whether he was in on it from the beginning or not he's definitely been lying about those phone calls.

 

[Kirby]

Waiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit...now Reagan Mauia says that she existed, he met her, and was very close to her!

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

OK, now this is making a bit more sense. I'm guessing "Reagan" is a transgendered person that became close to multiple players, and at some point ended it. And when Manti found out "she" was a "he", he felt it easier to say she died and be done with it.

Odd use of the word "now".

???? Maybe I'm missing something, is this not new news? I saw it on PFT and figured it was new.

In today's world, it's not new. It's from last night. Check the time stamp on that PFT article.

Oh, fair enough. And Ruds, I'm not saying Reagan was transgendered, I'm saying Lennay was a transgender and she actually did meet Manti (and Reagan).

I saw a Taboo episode about fa'afafines... I guess it's a normal thing in Samoa.

 

[sporthenry]

So any chance T-sopo was at the '09 Stanford game? He knew Te'o via the giant "family" that exists in the Samoan/Hawiain culture, and was there, and remembered him meeting some hot girl? 2 years later he pretends to be that girl on twitter? Te'o can't really tell her from the picture because his memory of her face is 2 years old?Something like that is possible I suppose. Its either that or he's ####.

And maybe Tui found stumbled across a pic of a woman on facebook who looked kind of like that girl at Stanford and he uses it to set this whole thing up?

And then he got a girl/himself to portray a girl on the phone and talk for hours upon end to Manti about God and such keeping a straight face (voice).

It seems like a lot of people are hung-up on these supposed phone calls. I think no matter which theory you believe in at this point we should all be able to agree that these phone calls didn't happen. Regardless of whether he was in on it from the beginning or not he's definitely been lying about those phone calls.

That makes sense. But then on top of being duped/stupid, he is still a scumbag. The stuff in the interview about her saying to go out and play and what God wanted would all be b/s.

 

[Buckfast 1]

I think we can all be confident that Notre Dame's internal investigation will reveal the truth about whether this was truly an elaborate hoax.I mean who could be better suited to investigate an elaborate hoax than a college whose leaders and followers give away 10% of their income to the Catholic church because some robed man who works for the church told them that is what the bearded all-powerful guy in the sky who determined their eternal fate wanted them to do after they finished eating the literal blood and body of Jesus Christ?

 

[Maude]

So any chance T-sopo was at the '09 Stanford game? He knew Te'o via the giant "family" that exists in the Samoan/Hawiain culture, and was there, and remembered him meeting some hot girl? 2 years later he pretends to be that girl on twitter? Te'o can't really tell her from the picture because his memory of her face is 2 years old?Something like that is possible I suppose. Its either that or he's ####.

And maybe Tui found stumbled across a pic of a woman on facebook who looked kind of like that girl at Stanford and he uses it to set this whole thing up?

I still think its a little far-fetched that a start football player at ND would fall in love with a random girl from the internet without visiting her one time over the past year. this isn't Kip Dynamite were talking about. this guy had thousands of women within a 10 mile radius he could've had. I mean, seriously, I have my whole summer off and the love of my life lives in Cali and I don't go to see her one time? or maybe I tried but she kept avoiding the meeting yet I still keep professing my undying love for her? then she's in a car accident, still no visit? then in a hospital for leukemia and still no visit? there wasn't a day or two in there I could fly across the country?sorry, but I can't buy the fact that he wasn't involved in this. could be wrong I guess...

Your problem is that you are using logic and common sense. Those tend to cloud good judgement.

 

[Billy Bats]

So any chance T-sopo was at the '09 Stanford game? He knew Te'o via the giant "family" that exists in the Samoan/Hawiain culture, and was there, and remembered him meeting some hot girl? 2 years later he pretends to be that girl on twitter? Te'o can't really tell her from the picture because his memory of her face is 2 years old?Something like that is possible I suppose. Its either that or he's ####.

And maybe Tui found stumbled across a pic of a woman on facebook who looked kind of like that girl at Stanford and he uses it to set this whole thing up?

And then he got a girl/himself to portray a girl on the phone and talk for hours upon end to Manti about God and such keeping a straight face (voice).

It seems like a lot of people are hung-up on these supposed phone calls. I think no matter which theory you believe in at this point we should all be able to agree that these phone calls didn't happen. Regardless of whether he was in on it from the beginning or not he's definitely been lying about those phone calls.

That makes sense. But then on top of being duped/stupid, he is still a scumbag. The stuff in the interview about her saying to go out and play and what God wanted would all be b/s.

Not necessarily. If this Reagan Manua is to be believed, there is a girl involved. So there may have been phone conversations, just not at the length Manti suggests.

 

[TobiasFunke]

So any chance T-sopo was at the '09 Stanford game? He knew Te'o via the giant "family" that exists in the Samoan/Hawiain culture, and was there, and remembered him meeting some hot girl? 2 years later he pretends to be that girl on twitter? Te'o can't really tell her from the picture because his memory of her face is 2 years old?

Something like that is possible I suppose. Its either that or he's ####.

And maybe Tui found stumbled across a pic of a woman on facebook who looked kind of like that girl at Stanford and he uses it to set this whole thing up?

I still think its a little far-fetched that a start football player at ND would fall in love with a random girl from the internet without visiting her one time over the past year. this isn't Kip Dynamite were talking about. this guy had thousands of women within a 10 mile radius he could've had. I mean, seriously, I have my whole summer off and the love of my life lives in Cali and I don't go to see her one time? or maybe I tried but she kept avoiding the meeting yet I still keep professing my undying love for her? then she's in a car accident, still no visit? then in a hospital for leukemia and still no visit? there wasn't a day or two in there I could fly across the country?sorry, but I can't buy the fact that he wasn't involved in this. could be wrong I guess...

I don't buy it either. Not for a second.

I got into this a couple pages ago, but the basic gist of it was: this is a devout Mormon who chose to play football at Notre Dame when he could have gone to USC. I think it's fair to say he doesn't view women and sex the way most of us did when we were in college.Based on some of her messages and tweets it seems possible that there was a concerted effort by whoever was acting as her to put off face to face meetings and trips and even him coming to the funeral with various excuses. If you're young and inexperienced and gullible, it seems plausible that you'd buy it. Plenty of reason to doubt it, but it hardly seems impossible.

 

[Joe Summer]

So any chance T-sopo was at the '09 Stanford game? He knew Te'o via the giant "family" that exists in the Samoan/Hawiain culture, and was there, and remembered him meeting some hot girl? 2 years later he pretends to be that girl on twitter? Te'o can't really tell her from the picture because his memory of her face is 2 years old?Something like that is possible I suppose. Its either that or he's ####.

And maybe Tui found stumbled across a pic of a woman on facebook who looked kind of like that girl at Stanford and he uses it to set this whole thing up?

We already know that the girl in the picture is a high school friend of Ronaiah Tuiasosopo's. He called her last year and specifically asked for some of her Facebook pictures. When Deadspin tracked her down, she said she had no idea that her pictures were being used to represent "Lennay Kekua".

 

[Billy Bats]

So any chance T-sopo was at the '09 Stanford game? He knew Te'o via the giant "family" that exists in the Samoan/Hawiain culture, and was there, and remembered him meeting some hot girl? 2 years later he pretends to be that girl on twitter? Te'o can't really tell her from the picture because his memory of her face is 2 years old?

Something like that is possible I suppose. Its either that or he's ####.

And maybe Tui found stumbled across a pic of a woman on facebook who looked kind of like that girl at Stanford and he uses it to set this whole thing up?

I still think its a little far-fetched that a start football player at ND would fall in love with a random girl from the internet without visiting her one time over the past year. this isn't Kip Dynamite were talking about. this guy had thousands of women within a 10 mile radius he could've had. I mean, seriously, I have my whole summer off and the love of my life lives in Cali and I don't go to see her one time? or maybe I tried but she kept avoiding the meeting yet I still keep professing my undying love for her? then she's in a car accident, still no visit? then in a hospital for leukemia and still no visit? there wasn't a day or two in there I could fly across the country?sorry, but I can't buy the fact that he wasn't involved in this. could be wrong I guess...

I don't buy it either. Not for a second.

I got into this a couple pages ago, but the basic gist of it was: this is a devout Mormon who chose to play football at Notre Dame when he could have gone to USC. I think it's fair to say he doesn't view women and sex the way most of us did when we were in college.Based on some of her messages and tweets it seems possible that there was a concerted effort by whoever was acting as her to put off face to face meetings and trips and even him coming to the funeral with various excuses. If you're young and inexperienced and gullible, it seems plausible that you'd buy it. Plenty of reason to doubt it, but it hardly seems impossible.

That's what I've been thinking. No street smarts. Maybe he's never seen the three card monte? There's always someone out there that will buy the Brooklyn bridge.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

it seems a lot of people in here haven't read the Deadspin article. should probably check it out. it's worth the effort.

 

[pantagrapher]

My prediction: evidence emerges that Tuiasosopo is gay and has used a similar method—fake twitter girlfriend—to carry on secret relationships in the past. He denies this for a while, then eventually admits it, but insists he and Te'o were never in a relationship and that it was he, not Te'o, who was solely responsible for the hoax.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

No street smarts. Maybe he's never seen the three card monte? There's always someone out there that will buy the Brooklyn bridge.

ESPN's Gene W. is trying to paint him as a homebody who never went out and thus was not "socially smart".

 

[Bob Sacamano]

So any chance T-sopo was at the '09 Stanford game? He knew Te'o via the giant "family" that exists in the Samoan/Hawiain culture, and was there, and remembered him meeting some hot girl? 2 years later he pretends to be that girl on twitter? Te'o can't really tell her from the picture because his memory of her face is 2 years old?

Something like that is possible I suppose. Its either that or he's ####.

And maybe Tui found stumbled across a pic of a woman on facebook who looked kind of like that girl at Stanford and he uses it to set this whole thing up?

I still think its a little far-fetched that a start football player at ND would fall in love with a random girl from the internet without visiting her one time over the past year. this isn't Kip Dynamite were talking about. this guy had thousands of women within a 10 mile radius he could've had. I mean, seriously, I have my whole summer off and the love of my life lives in Cali and I don't go to see her one time? or maybe I tried but she kept avoiding the meeting yet I still keep professing my undying love for her? then she's in a car accident, still no visit? then in a hospital for leukemia and still no visit? there wasn't a day or two in there I could fly across the country?sorry, but I can't buy the fact that he wasn't involved in this. could be wrong I guess...

Indiana women. That should probably play into the equation somewhere.

 

[Dinsy Ejotuz]

No street smarts. Maybe he's never seen the three card monte? There's always someone out there that will buy the Brooklyn bridge.

ESPN's Gene W. is trying to paint him as a homebody who never went out and thus was not "socially smart".

Which would also jibe with having an uber-controlling dad. Kids that never have a chance to make little mistakes and eff up a bit before they leave home can be pretty gullible and have more problems they get to college.

 

[(HULK)]

So any chance T-sopo was at the '09 Stanford game? He knew Te'o via the giant "family" that exists in the Samoan/Hawiain culture, and was there, and remembered him meeting some hot girl? 2 years later he pretends to be that girl on twitter? Te'o can't really tell her from the picture because his memory of her face is 2 years old?Something like that is possible I suppose. Its either that or he's ####.

And maybe Tui found stumbled across a pic of a woman on facebook who looked kind of like that girl at Stanford and he uses it to set this whole thing up?

We already know that the girl in the picture is a high school friend of Ronaiah Tuiasosopo's. He called her last year and specifically asked for some of her Facebook pictures. When Deadspin tracked her down, she said she had no idea that her pictures were being used to represent "Lennay Kekua".

That specific pic he asked her for, holding a sign that had some letters on it (MSMK or something), that could've been used to "prove" to Te'o that she was real. Similar to a penny shot.

 

[BroncoFreak_2K3]

So any chance T-sopo was at the '09 Stanford game? He knew Te'o via the giant "family" that exists in the Samoan/Hawiain culture, and was there, and remembered him meeting some hot girl? 2 years later he pretends to be that girl on twitter? Te'o can't really tell her from the picture because his memory of her face is 2 years old?Something like that is possible I suppose. Its either that or he's ####.

And maybe Tui found stumbled across a pic of a woman on facebook who looked kind of like that girl at Stanford and he uses it to set this whole thing up?

I still think its a little far-fetched that a start football player at ND would fall in love with a random girl from the internet without visiting her one time over the past year. this isn't Kip Dynamite were talking about. this guy had thousands of women within a 10 mile radius he could've had. I mean, seriously, I have my whole summer off and the love of my life lives in Cali and I don't go to see her one time? or maybe I tried but she kept avoiding the meeting yet I still keep professing my undying love for her? then she's in a car accident, still no visit? then in a hospital for leukemia and still no visit? there wasn't a day or two in there I could fly across the country?sorry, but I can't buy the fact that he wasn't involved in this. could be wrong I guess...

this is the direction I'm leaning

 

[(HULK)]

If anyone can think of anything fun to email to my ND alumnus relatives, I'm open to suggestions.

 

[NajehHejan]

RT @damonlindelof: Someone just dropped a coffee mug that says "Kekua" on the bottom.

That's the tweet of the year until further notice.

Co-creator of Lost. Dude has chops.

I think I'm the only one who doesn't get this. Can someone put me out of my misery and explain this to me?

 

[Limp Ditka]

RT @damonlindelof: Someone just dropped a coffee mug that says "Kekua" on the bottom.

That's the tweet of the year until further notice.

Co-creator of Lost. Dude has chops.

I think I'm the only one who doesn't get this. Can someone put me out of my misery and explain this to me?

One of the usual suspects should be able to help you out.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

RT @damonlindelof: Someone just dropped a coffee mug that says "Kekua" on the bottom.

That's the tweet of the year until further notice.

Co-creator of Lost. Dude has chops.

I think I'm the only one who doesn't get this. Can someone put me out of my misery and explain this to me?

Keyser Soze

 

[(HULK)]

RT @damonlindelof: Someone just dropped a coffee mug that says "Kekua" on the bottom.

That's the tweet of the year until further notice.

Co-creator of Lost. Dude has chops.

I think I'm the only one who doesn't get this. Can someone put me out of my misery and explain this to me?

One of the usual suspects should be able to help you out.

:snarf:

 

[Joe Summer]

So any chance T-sopo was at the '09 Stanford game? He knew Te'o via the giant "family" that exists in the Samoan/Hawiain culture, and was there, and remembered him meeting some hot girl? 2 years later he pretends to be that girl on twitter? Te'o can't really tell her from the picture because his memory of her face is 2 years old?

Something like that is possible I suppose. Its either that or he's ####.

And maybe Tui found stumbled across a pic of a woman on facebook who looked kind of like that girl at Stanford and he uses it to set this whole thing up?

We already know that the girl in the picture is a high school friend of Ronaiah Tuiasosopo's. He called her last year and specifically asked for some of her Facebook pictures. When Deadspin tracked her down, she said she had no idea that her pictures were being used to represent "Lennay Kekua".

That specific pic he asked her for, holding a sign that had some letters on it (MSMK or something), that could've been used to "prove" to Te'o that she was real. Similar to a penny shot.

That's certainly possible. I was just pointing out that Tuiasosopo didn't "stumble upon" her picture. He targeted her and specifically asked for the pics.The weird thing is that he asked for the "MSMK" picture after the fake girlfriend supposedly died. That's a bit baffling. Who was he trying to fool at that point?

 

[GoFishTN]

Sorry if this has already been posted, I skipped a few pages:My link

The debate among teammates wasn't whether or not Manti actually knew this girl - it was clear that they had been in contact; no, players just didn't think that it was fair to call Lennay Kekua Manti's girlfriend, period (it is well-known on campus that he has had relations with other girls during his time at Notre Dame).

 

[Sweet J]

If nothing else, this threat makes me smile at the thought of asspenny.But at the same time, I'm also kind of ashamed: For the life of me, I can't remember the threat that asspenny came from. Was it Camping with Steve? I don't think so.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

If nothing else, this threat makes me smile at the thought of asspenny.But at the same time, I'm also kind of ashamed: For the life of me, I can't remember the threat that asspenny came from. Was it Camping with Steve? I don't think so.

what's with all the threats, man?

 

[cstu]

The real issue for Manti now is likely a decision over whether he wants to say he was in on it, and risk the pushback, or to come out and risk the pushback. Sadly, if this was an elaborate way to hide his sexual preference, it's a horrible reminder of how pockets of our society -- sports like football included -- are still bigoted.

The best thing would be for him to come out publicly and go on Oprah.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

The real issue for Manti now is likely a decision over whether he wants to say he was in on it, and risk the pushback, or to come out and risk the pushback. Sadly, if this was an elaborate way to hide his sexual preference, it's a horrible reminder of how pockets of our society -- sports like football included -- are still bigoted.

The best thing would be for him to come out publicly and go on Oprah.

He'd need twice the balls of the last guy who did that.

 

[ntz08]

 

[(HULK)]

So any chance T-sopo was at the '09 Stanford game? He knew Te'o via the giant "family" that exists in the Samoan/Hawiain culture, and was there, and remembered him meeting some hot girl? 2 years later he pretends to be that girl on twitter? Te'o can't really tell her from the picture because his memory of her face is 2 years old?

Something like that is possible I suppose. Its either that or he's ####.

And maybe Tui found stumbled across a pic of a woman on facebook who looked kind of like that girl at Stanford and he uses it to set this whole thing up?

We already know that the girl in the picture is a high school friend of Ronaiah Tuiasosopo's. He called her last year and specifically asked for some of her Facebook pictures. When Deadspin tracked her down, she said she had no idea that her pictures were being used to represent "Lennay Kekua".

That specific pic he asked her for, holding a sign that had some letters on it (MSMK or something), that could've been used to "prove" to Te'o that she was real. Similar to a penny shot.

That's certainly possible. I was just pointing out that Tuiasosopo didn't "stumble upon" her picture. He targeted her and specifically asked for the pics.The weird thing is that he asked for the "MSMK" picture after the fake girlfriend supposedly died. That's a bit baffling. Who was he trying to fool at that point?

Oh, I skimmed the Dec 2012 part. Thats totally weird. T-sopo wouldn't even have fingers pointed at him if he hadn't done that.

 

[badmojo1006]

 

[Tuco]

The real issue for Manti now is likely a decision over whether he wants to say he was in on it, and risk the pushback, or to come out and risk the pushback. Sadly, if this was an elaborate way to hide his sexual preference, it's a horrible reminder of how pockets of our society -- sports like football included -- are still bigoted.

The best thing would be for him to come out publicly and go on Oprah.

He'd need twice the balls of the last guy who did that.

:golfclap:

 

[Bob Sacamano]

If nothing else, this threat makes me smile at the thought of asspenny.But at the same time, I'm also kind of ashamed: For the life of me, I can't remember the threat that asspenny came from. Was it Camping with Steve? I don't think so.

I tapped out the beginnings of a parody for this, and I tried like hell to work asspenny into it. Couldn't make it work.

 

[Plorfu]

The real issue for Manti now is likely a decision over whether he wants to say he was in on it, and risk the pushback, or to come out and risk the pushback. Sadly, if this was an elaborate way to hide his sexual preference, it's a horrible reminder of how pockets of our society -- sports like football included -- are still bigoted.

The best thing would be for him to come out publicly and go on Oprah.

Can someone create a .gif of Tom Cruise with Te'o's head jumping up and down on Oprah's couch proclaiming love for his dead girlfriend? Please?

 

[Fennis]

so when do we find out what really happened?

 

[Todd Andrews]

Perfect. What was the white stuff the alter boys dressed as leprechauns were throwing up? Reminded me of that South Park episode with Paris Hilton.

 

[Billy Bats]

There was a rumor of a sit down between Jeremy Schaap and Manti, but it's since been scrapped.