Bruce Feldman @BFeldmanCBS More Te'o talk: Notre Dame announces it will have 8 p.m. ET press conference tonight with AD Jack Swarbrick
Gregg Doyel @GreggDoyelCBS Manti's father: "They started out as just friends. She would travel to Hawaii (when) Manti was home, so he would meet with her there."
Hell, he's not the only Mormon to be duped this past year. Someone convinced Mitt Romney he could be President.
Eta on confirmation he's banging the Tuiasosopa who didn't make the league and this is all made up? Pre/Post or during the combine?
I don't think there's anything in the Book of Mormon about dating a girl you've never seen in person for a full year.
So he met this girl irl, he follows what he thinks is her facebook (which is fake), fake person dies? Did he never try to confirm? Is the actual girlfriend still alive? Did they just stop talking on the day she died? This is fucking bullshit.
I think we're overlooking what an amazing 80's romcom this would've made. It's like Big meets Necessary Roughness meets Valley Girl
This is how I feel. If it was actually a prank, he still went out of his way to embellish their relationship and rode it all season and to NYC for the Heisman ceremony. Fuck him.
Dustin McComas @DMcComasOB I really, really wish Lane Kiffin would announce tonight he noticed the character flaws in Te'o and dropped him. Internet would break.
I was told that teo was hitting on Barrett Jones mom at the awards ceremony. It seems like it must have actually been Barrett Jones himself he was interested in fucking
Bryan Bishop @BaldBryan Now guys, let's wait til all the facts are in before we declare this Manti Te'o story FUCKING HILARIOUS OMG THIS IS AWESOME
This is the greatest thing on earth, not the Te'o story, this thread. The Te'o story is the second greatest thing on earth.
I said in the BCS game thread that Te'o should give the Butkus to CJ mosely, and now I might start a White House petition to make it so.
This shows how easily a situation can be manipulated to achieve a gain, imo. I am not sure if I think they did it for attention or to cover something up. What if MT is gay and was private tweeting a guy, it got discovered and the guy went back and changed his name to a girl so to give MT some cover? Not sure what to think on this one. Either way MT is screwed when it comes to Combine/Pre Draft interviews. He can't say he faked it for publicity, he can't say he is gay (that could make it all go away, imo, he could say he did it to cover for being gay), but then the "gay" story would be a story itself. I definitely don't buy the official story.
If he was in on the hoax, how big of a chode do you have to be to fake your imaginary girlfriends death on the same day someone actually died?
Can't wait for the NFL draft so I can listen to Kiper talk about character concerns when he's drafted.
I really hope they continue with this story, cover up is always worse than the lie and journalists have had about 2 hours now to dig, give them two weeks and it's a fucking crater. /bart scott
Pretty funny that the day his grandma died, this fake chick "died." Nothing like trivializing the death of your grandmother...