Teos made up gf

[Bo's Pelini]

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

[Bo's Pelini]

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

[Rudy Was Offsides]

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

[RockChalk]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

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!!!!!

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.

[Mr. Laz]

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

[mikeyis4dcats.]

wow

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Bo's Pelini

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

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.

[O.city]

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

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by O.city

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.

[Demonpenz]

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

[Bo's Pelini]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

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.

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

[O.city]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

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.

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.

[L.A. Chieffan]

MIND BLOWN

[Pestilence]

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.

[DeezNutz]

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

[FRAZ0D]

The right 53?