Teos made up gf

[Titty Meat]

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

[Crush]

Either way, I'm just glad that this has killed the Teo at No. 1 overall talk.

[Jerm]

Originally Posted by Pestilence

I still think that it started out with him being duped and it exploded into Te'o and his family lying to try and cover it.

I could SEE that...def not ruling it out, I personally think it started out as a joking kind of thing but once Teo/Notre Dame saw what it was getting them, they went full bore with it and ran with it.

Swarbrick's PC last night was a great performance...the tears? Come on now.

[splatbass]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Wrong

Right. You always believe the worst. It is your MO here on CP.

[saphojunkie]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Wrong

Okay, USC boy.

[splatbass]

Originally Posted by warpaint*

Follow the evidence and apply occams razor. It seems clear he lied about something.

Certainly. It is not clear he knew she was fake. You should apply Occam's razor. If he was in on it from the start, for all the reasons people have said - hype for the Heisman, covering up that he is gay- that is a way too complicated way to go about achieving those things. There are much simpler ways to do it, like dating a few real women for example. There is no need to invent a very complicated and easy to discover ruse.

[saphojunkie]

Originally Posted by Crush

Either way, I'm just glad that this has killed the Teo at No. 1 overall talk.

And this.

[Jerm]

So at the very best here with this story Manti Te'o is the dumbest SOB walking God's green earth....still not exactly flattering lol.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by Pestilence

Part of me still believes that he really is that dumb and was duped the whole time. There would be nothing to gain from this for him. It's easy as **** to expose as false and there would be no way that he could remove himself from it.

I was talking about this at lunch with some of my friends - one of them suggested that he may be gay, and this fake girlfriend thing is part of the smokescreen to cover it up. I don't think you'll see the rainbow flag flying over the golden dome anytime soon.

If this has been discussed before, my apologies. I'm not digging through a 600+ post thread about some Notre Dame douchebag.

[Jerm]

Originally Posted by frazod

I was talking about this at lunch with some of my friends - one of them suggested that he may be gay, and this fake girlfriend thing is part of the smokescreen to cover it up. I don't think you'll see the rainbow flag flying over the golden dome anytime soon.

If this has been discussed before, my apologies. I'm not digging through a 600+ post thread about some Notre Dame douchebag.

That was a rumor making the rounds on Twitter last night...that he and Tuiasosopspospso or whatever his name is are gay and concocted this entire thing to cover it up.

[Frazod]

You'd think the guy could at least find a living, breathing beard to hook up with in public once in a while.

[splatbass]

Originally Posted by frazod

I was talking about this at lunch with some of my friends - one of them suggested that he may be gay, and this fake girlfriend thing is part of the smokescreen to cover it up. I don't think you'll see the rainbow flag flying over the golden dome anytime soon.

There are much simpler ways to cover up being gay. Go out on a few dates a real women for example. It is a tried and true method that gay men do all the time. Inventing a complicated and easily discovered ruse would be a really dumb way to do something that would be simple to do.

[saphojunkie]

Originally Posted by Jerm

That was a rumor making the rounds on Twitter last night...that he and Tuiasosopspospso or whatever his name is are gay and concocted this entire thing to cover it up.

This is more likely to me than the "Maybe in a few years I could be a Heisman candidate, and this PR will really help!" nonsense.

[warpaint*]

Originally Posted by splatbass

Certainly. It is not clear he knew she was fake. You should apply Occam's razor. If he was in on it from the start, for all the reasons people have said - hype for the Heisman, covering up that he is gay- that is a way too complicated way to go about achieving those things. There are much simpler ways to do it, like dating a few real women for example. There is no need to invent a very complicated and easy to discover ruse.

I am not disagreeing w/ you. I have already posted as much somewhere in these 40+ pages.

At least based on what we know at this time I think much of what you have said makes more sense than any of that.

There's so much to the story that I'm not marrying myself to anything just yet. It's still playing out.

[Crush]

[Jerm]

Why do I get this feeling that when it's all said and done and everything about this story is revealed it's going to be 100x more bizarre than it already is......if that's possible.