Teos made up gf
 

http://m.deadspin.com/5976517/manti-teos-dead-girlfriend-the-most-heartbreaking-and-inspirational-story-of-the-college-football-season-is-a-hoax?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

Wut

It's extremely long so I didn't post the article to the thread, but it's pretty damning. They make some conclusions that they hammer home based on conjecture and there's a couple of leaps based on inferences (or failed inferences, as it were), but it's a blistering report.

This thread needs a clearer title.

This is a serious piece of reporting by Deadspin. It alleges that Te'o's deceased girlfriend never existed. She was an imagined thing intended to increase Te'o's media exposure.

If I were going to make up a girlfriend, she would love football and be hot and nasty in the sack. She wouldn't die from something.

This thread rules.

Good thing he didn't win the Heisman.

I had never even heard about his supposed dead girlfriend, so the media didn't really play it up much. At least not in the news I read or watch

#1 pick

I'm sure noted videographer murderer Brian Kelly was somehow involved.

LMAO. T'eo is a con artist and loving it.

So, take him in the 4th round?

Did you watch any college football this year? Especially leading up to the title game.

This was a huge story all year. Hell, the 'death' happened mid-season.

This is as rattling a shot as I've taken as a sports fan for quite awhile. This was a pretty major story among the college football faithful and as it turns out it may just be one massive, elaborate hoax.

But here's the good news - TE'O AT 2.2!!!!!

She never existed....kind of like his coverage sklls.

Who are the dumbasses who wanted this guy #1? Post there names in here.

Makes sense. I was amazed at how invisible this girl was.

Damn...I did watch quite a bit, but I really didn't follow Notre Dame all that much. Nor did I watch any lead-up to the title game, mainly because I don't care for Bama or ND, plus I didn't think it would be a good game.

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18bp...jpg/xlarge.jpg hoaxes
Jan 16, 2013 4:10 PM

Manti Te’o’s Dead Girlfriend, The Most Heartbreaking And Inspirational Story Of The College Football Season, Is A Hoax
Timothy Burke and Jack Dickey

Notre Dame's Manti Te'o, the stories said, played this season under a terrible burden. A Mormon linebacker who led his Catholic school's football program back to glory, Te'o was whipsawed between personal tragedies along the way. In the span of six hours in September, as Sports Illustrated told it, Te'o learned first of the death of his grandmother, Annette Santiago, and then of the death of his girlfriend, Lennay Kekua.

Kekua, 22 years old, had been in a serious car accident in California, and then had been diagnosed with leukemia. SI's Pete Thamel described how Te'o would phone her in her hospital room and stay on the line with her as he slept through the night. "Her relatives told him that at her lowest points, as she fought to emerge from a coma, her breathing rate would increase at the sound of his voice," Thamel wrote.

Upon receiving the news of the two deaths, Te'o went out and led the Fighting Irish to a 20-3 upset of Michigan State, racking up 12 tackles. It was heartbreaking and inspirational. Te'o would appear on ESPN's College GameDay to talk about the letters Kekua had written him during her illness. He would send a heartfelt letter to the parents of a sick child, discussing his experience with disease and grief. The South Bend Tribune wrote an article describing the young couple's fairytale meeting—she, a Stanford student; he, a Notre Dame star—after a football game outside Palo Alto.

Did you enjoy the uplifiting story, the tale of a man who responded to adversity by becoming one of the top players of the game? If so, stop reading.

Manti Te'o did lose his grandmother this past fall. Annette Santiago died on Sept. 11, 2012, at the age of 72, according to Social Security Administration records in Nexis. But there is no SSA record there of the death of Lennay Marie Kekua, that day or any other. Her passing, recounted so many times in the national media, produces no obituary or funeral announcement in Nexis, and no mention in the Stanford student newspaper.

Nor is there any report of a severe auto accident involving a Lennay Kekua. Background checks turn up nothing. The Stanford registrar's office has no record that a Lennay Kekua ever enrolled. There is no record of her birth in the news. Outside of a few Twitter and Instagram accounts, there's no online evidence that Lennay Kekua ever existed.

The photographs identified as Kekua—in online tributes and on TV news reports—are pictures from the social-media accounts of a 22-year-old California woman who is not named Lennay Kekua. She is not a Stanford graduate; she has not been in a severe car accident; and she does not have leukemia. And she has never met Manti Te'o.

cont at website ...

http://deadspin.com/5976517/manti-te...ason-is-a-hoax

wow

I said I'd trade up into the late teens for him (using our 2nd and maybe next year's 2nd).

Then I watched him get face-raped by Alabama and now his sterling 'character' that made him such an intriguing option as a MLB is certainly facing some questions.

You win some, you lose some....I damn sure seem to have lost this one.

So who formulated all this? Did ESPN, CBS, ABC, NBC etc not do any of their homework on this?

Does ESPN ever do any homework on anything?

ESPN is little more than the TMZ of the sports world these days. Deadspin and Yahoo Sports are the only two sources of sports info that seem to put any effort into it these days.

some ND suit probably thought it up after that student went Tom Petty off that boom truck last year.

Nah man its different at 14 opposed to taking a MLB #1 overall.

Yeah, but Christ, NBC ran a whole segment on the thing. Surely SOMEONE had to ask a few questions.


If this is all true, hell, he might not get drafted.

MIND BLOWN

I don't even know what to say.....but if it's true (and it's looking like it is).....then what a waste of a ****ing human being.

Te'o probably feels like he's trying to tackle Lacy again.

The right 53?

Somone needs to dig up dirt on Jockel so all the true fans will finally convert to Geno.

Another reason to dislike Notre Dame.

Nice.

lol.

Burt's Bro.

Prior to making up the story, KCPD let him walk on a potential DUI.

Draft stock
http://i707.photobucket.com/albums/w...rket_crash.jpg

Katherine Webb > Lennay Kekua

:clap:

ROFLROFL

Damn. I feel bad for laughing. I really liked Te'o a lot as a competitor and a person.

I really hope there's a gap in the system here somewhere and it gets explained away.

I'm speechless. I somewhat don't believe it. I mean not really I'm just so shocked by it.

I am immediately reminded of that kid from out west that ended up playing D2 football IIRC who fabricated having offers to like Ore, Cal, and I forget where else and then orchestrated a televised commitment announcement at his high school claiming to commit to one of the schools that had never heard of him.

It's like.......seriously dude what the heck is wrong w/ you

I once had a FB friend who used to lament how women hated him and he could never find any girl who would give him the time of day. Suddenly he was in a relationship with a 9.8 who had just joined facebook. They would post all kinds of lovebird shit to one another all day long and she would populate her timeline with sexy pictures of herself but never one with him. After a couple of days of this, I accused him of fabricating her. He immediately defriended me and has never spoken to me again. I don't know if they're still "together" or not.

SHE'S REAL I SWEAR

Clay?

Don't lump ESPN in with TMZ, TMZ actually breaks stories and reports.

What is the end game?

For that matter what is the incentive?

A grown up adult indulging in some quasi fantasy land in public.

I just can't wrap my mind around stuff like this.

It's how you play the game that matters
http://i950.photobucket.com/albums/a...y-fairplay.jpg

Guess we know why he declined to go to the SR bowl.

Te'o is lying, manipulative, obsessed with his perception, & borderline-sociopathic. Scott Pioli would have drafted him #1 overall.

ROFL

Probably dozens of chicks now wishing death on the hot girl so they can get a crack at him. Women are funny that way.

Atleast we know hes a LB who wont kill his gf.

To win a Heisman that he never deserved simply based on his (overrated) play... luckily, he didn't end up reaching that goal.

This has to be bullshit, right? Right? I can't even imagine this...

Bruce Feldman‏@BFeldmanCBS

I'm told Notre Dame will have an official comment on the Deadspin Manti Te'o story shortly.

Win a Heisman and raise his draft stock thru emotion. Bad news is it's gonna hurt it now.

"We would like to announce that we have reached an agreement on a contract extension with Brian Kelly! Wake up the Echos!!!

And Manti Te'o was dating the Easter bunny...sorry 'bout that"

LOL I know that's what I keep thinking.

It's like.....yoooou gotta be freakin' kidding me.

This is worthy of a quote.

It cannot be understated that if Pioli were still here that there would have been a great chance we would have taken him #1 overall. Pioli would have even used this story as how "haters are gonna hate" with HIS guy, or somesuch.


Yeah, Domer. You can keep this guy and his inability to make a play in huge games.

The article says all her pictures and such were faked by this other guy in California. Is it possible he and Te'o were lovers and they made up a girl to hide being gay?

I swear if this is true, he is going to fall to the 4th ****ing round.

heh, I'm in tears reading twitter right now. Everyone is nailing this.

I give this a 0% chance of being bullshit.

If someone tried to tarnish my name this severely and this publicly, I'd have an equally visible platform within about two seconds to debunk a hateful and hurtful "story."

Thats what I thought too ROFL

Nah. Belichick would take him in the second.

The Tuiasosopo family is well known in the Seattle area. Marques was a great UW QB. Guy rushed for 200 yards and passed for 300 in a Pac-10 game. He's beloved. The whole family is. Crazy.

Trapped in the closet twitter style!

:hmmm:

The thought also crossed my mind.

Beards gotta be real, kids.

Pro Football Weekly‏@ProFootballWkly

RT @SIPeteThamel: ND releases statement that says Te'o was victim of a hoax: "a sad and very cruel deception to entertain its perpetrators."

anyone else sit through the bullshit fluff pieces and thought there was alittle something wrong with it? I kind of thought it was ****ed up now when I think back.

Riiiiight.

A gay Mormon going to a Catholic school is outed when dead girlfriend is found out to be a faked identity.

Sounds like some shit you could watch on Spike TV.

Oh, GTFO. Notre Dame is in scramble mode. This is un****ingbelievable...

Keith Britton‏@KeithBritton86

ND Statement on Te'o: "Notre Dame coaches informed Dec 26 by Manti Te’o & parents Manti had been victim of what appears to be a hoax"

Pete Thamel ‏@SIPeteThamel

ND: "Lennay Kekua apparently ingratiated herself with Manti and then conspired with others to lead him to believe she had tragically died.

As longs as AJs girl is still real everything is fine...

"Man this seems awful tight..." /HOAX

He used to **** a figment of his imagination? Damn, we've all been victimized.

Notre Dame Statement: Manti Te’o

On Dec. 26, Notre Dame coaches were informed by Manti Te’o and his parents that Manti had been the victim of what appears to be a hoax in which someone using the fictitious name Lennay Kekua apparently ingratiated herself with Manti and then conspired with others to lead him to believe she had tragically died of leukemia. The University immediately initiated an investigation to assist Manti and his family in discovering the motive for and nature of this hoax. While the proper authorities will continue to investigate this troubling matter, this appears to be, at a minimum, a sad and very cruel deception to entertain its perpetrators.

Dennis Brown
University Spokesman | Assistant Vice President