Bye bye 1st rd for Te'o.
Unreal.
Bizarre.
Don't Panic (01-16-2013)
THIS IS THE TYPE OF LEADERSHIP TEAMS COVET! GREAT INTANGIBLES!
THE GREAT MANTI TEO, I HOPE HE'S THERE WHEN THE BILLS DRAFT, NO CHANCE THOUGH, HE'S THE REAL DEAL!
the funny thing is about an hour before espn played this story, there was a mock (i forgot who did it) that had us taking him at number 8.
I came.
I saw.
I conquered.
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ThunderGun (01-17-2013)
Jumping to the conclusion that he's gay is definitely a huge leap. From reading the article (I haven't followed any of this in real time), it sounds like it could be a morbid joke that got so big that he/they felt the need to play it out to the end and hope nobody would catch wind of the truth.
The media freaking out and blowing up without 100% of the facts?! NOOOOOO!
I know he has a stake in it, but I really do want the whole story. Otherwise, don't want anything to do with him.
Bye Bye Brady...
I hope that he is just incredibly naive and gullible.
If Te'o had any culpability in this then he is a borderline sociopath and probably has Munchausen by Proxy. I'm guessing that every team thinking about drafting him is going to put him through a battery of psychological exams. It'll be an interesting few months for him leading up to the draft and with whatever developments this story takes.
I don't know if you read the whole article.
But if your picture was used by nearly every major media outlet, and they reported you were Manti Teo's dead girlfriend, you may want to have legal recourse. Especially if you're not Manti Teo's dead girlfriend, and you're not dead.
I don't know what if any repercussions will come for this for the girl, if any, however this is a dangerous trend that seems to be happening with some frequency.
[W]e are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace...
[F]or no one chooses to be at war, or provokes war, for the sake of being at war; any one would seem absolutely murderous if he were to make enemies of his friends in order to bring about battle and slaughter...
- Aristotle
ESPN news just reported (10:40 PM EST) that FB from Arizona Cardinals Matai (sp?) met the girl in Samoa and had spoke to her on and off for the past few years. Also that her mother has been operating her Twitter account.
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wow... this story is so bizarre... we have an AZ Cardinal who claims to have known and met her... said she was still alive and that she was the cousin of the guy in the Deadspin report claiming Te'o made her up... he also thinks this was a joke played on Te'o by her mother of all people...
My wife told me that if I had a dollar for every girl who found me unattractive, girls would find me VERY attractive.
MY WIFE SAID THAT!!!
The most bizarre sports story I've ever heard.
id say he is gay because whos kidding who mormon or not when your jacked chicks make crazy suggestions all the time. he should be easily banging chicks or have a real life girlfriend
i now know i dont want this dildo on the bills
If the guy really did think he had a "girlfriend" he never met or spoken to in over a year's time, he must be as dumb as the proverbial box o' rocks. Unbelievable.
This lowly cart.... it hits harder and has a higher yards
per play average than the Bills' offense!
djjimkelly (01-16-2013)
he never claimed to never have talked to her. apparently they talked by phone. he claims he was tipped off to the hoax when she called him months after her "death" to say hi... and it was the same voice and number. he claims that's when he went to the uni and asked them to investigate what the heck was going on.
Cleve (01-17-2013)
why did manti dump his gf?
because she was never there for him
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