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

['Hamas' Jenkins]

I assumed that the "Cat" part of catfishing was a euphemism for pussy.

[The Franchise]

Originally Posted by Rausch

No matter what this is the case...

This.

[Rudy tossed tigger's salad]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

I assumed that the "Cat" part of catfishing was a euphemism for pussy.

And the fish part too

[silver5liter]

Originally Posted by Crush

The fake dead girlfriend speaks again.

L K ‏@LennayKay I will be releasing a statement, via twitter, between 11am and noon today.

Im telling you. It wouldnt surprise me one bit if this person comes out and says it was all him playing a trick on Manti. Trying to save manti's image. But i really cant see a way Manti isnt a part of the whole thing...

[splatbass]

Originally Posted by Dallas Chief

You gotta be famliy of this guy to be white knighting this much.

I'm not white knighting him, I just understand Hawaii a lot more than you guys. It is definitely possible he didn't know. You can't judge people from here as if they were from the mainland. The culture is different here.

[Gravedigger]

Who gives a shit about this whole thing?

1. Either he's lying, Notre Dame is lying, everyone is lying, and they made up a fictional person to get Notre Dame and Teo amped up as an organization/person overcoming tragedy then that's hilariously annoying, but not this newsworthy.

2. They're all telling the truth and this is the most underwhelming "news" story and Teo is unbelievably gullible, and its hard to believe that a guy who could have most women between 18-22, has to rely on a woman online that puts off meetings with you and you call your girlfriend. It's incredibly naive and immature like a 8 year old.

But this shouldn't be newsworthy, that bumped Lance Armstrongs interview with Oprah and even hostage situation in the middle east, it's pathetic, and the problem is it's everywhere and I can't get it off my radio/television.

[Crush]

Originally Posted by splatbass

I'm not white knighting him, I just understand Hawaii a lot more than you guys. It is definitely possible he didn't know. You can't judge people from here as if they were from the mainland. The culture is different here.

Then why did he lie about physically meeting this girl?

[NewChief]

This is some bullshit:
http://www.salon.com/2013/01/17/notr...uble_standard/

Notre Dame’s real dead woman
Manti Te'o's bizarre soap opera moves the school's president to tears, while Lizzy Seeberg's suicide is ignored
BY IRIN CARMON



(Credit: Reuters/Mike Segar)
Less than a day into the Manti Te’o revelations, we’ve heard more about a fake dead girlfriend of a Notre Dame football player than a real dead girl. Lizzy Seeberg committed suicide, not long after being intimidated by Notre Dame football players for reporting a sexual assault by one of their teammates. A second woman who was taken to the hospital for a rape exam declined to formally accuse another Notre Dame football player after getting a series of bullying texts from players.

The handful of people who immediately took note of the contrast in the attention — both by the press and by the university — are absolutely right to be angry. But no one should be surprised.

We don’t know everything about the Te’o saga yet, but there is probably only one fake dead girlfriend mythologized by the sports media, the existence of “Catfish”-ing as a verb notwithstanding. Whereas there are legions of stories of sexual violence against women and men by star athletes and staff, who can reliably count on the impunity offered by fandom. Confronting the former is a little embarrassing: The public equivalent of loving too much, the allure of a heartwarming story everyone wanted to believe. Confronting the latter requires uglier, more difficult self-examination, and accepting collective responsibility costs more.

It matters, too, how we can talk about each story. Some Manti Te’o Twitter jokes were instant classics; no one decent can make jokes about a girl who killed herself after being told, “Don’t do anything you would regret,” and “Messing with Notre Dame football is a bad idea,” according to Melinda Henneberger’s reporting. Henneberger, a Notre Dame alum, wrote in the Washington Post in early December that she won’t be cheering for the team. “As a thought exercise, how many predators would have to be on the team before you’d no longer feel like cheering?” she wrote. (She also said, “There are plenty of good guys on the team, too, I’m repeatedly told, And oh, that Manti Te’o is inspiring. I don’t doubt it.” Very few did.) It’s easier to just change the subject and not think about whether there is something endemic to football culture that enables sexual entitlement with the reasonable assumption of getting away with it.

We all have heard by now how denial and institutional culture contributed to Jerry Sandusky’s ability to continue assaulting young boys for years, under cover of the Penn State football program. But once that was exposed, it was rightly considered an unambiguous evil. But the sexual assault of women can and is often explained away — including the Notre Dame donor who justified his continued support to Henneberger by saying that Seeberg had been sexually aggressive, that “she was all over the boy.” In other words, it’s not just the players who are banding together around their brothers whether they’re rapists or not; it’s the adults around them who are turning a blind eye because they consider other things are more important. And they’re willing to believe anything except that these nice boys can be rapists.

Dave Zirin, who has long called for the Notre Dame football program to be shut down as irredeemably corrupt, pointed out that the university had hired a private investigator for the Te’o case but not the numerous other allegations of wrongdoing by players. Zirin said of the school’s athletic director, “It says so much that Te’o’s bizarre soap opera has moved [Jack] Swarbrick to openly weeping but he hasn’t spared one tear, let alone held one press conference, for Lizzy Seeberg … The problem at Notre Dame is not just football players without a compass; it’s the adults without a conscience.” We live in a country that officially condemns rape and sexual assault but when confronted with the real possibility of it, rarely strays from denial and excuses. That’s the biggest scam of all.


Irin Carmon is a staff writer for Salon. Follow her on Twitter at @irincarmon or email her at icarmon@salon.com.

[carlos3652]

Pretty good read:

http://collegespun.com/big-east/notr...x#.UPhOKh3AdWL

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by Crush

Then why did he lie about physically meeting this girl?

And continue to lie after finding out she was fake?...

[Chiefs Pantalones]

Originally Posted by Crush

Then why did he lie about physically meeting this girl?

Because he's a piece of shit.

[The Franchise]

Originally Posted by Rausch

And continue to lie after finding out she was fake?...

If it's all true and he was duped....then it was probably out of keeping an image. You have an "online girlfriend" for years and you've never met her? You tell people that she came to visit you in Hawaii while you were there.

[Thig Lyfe]

Originally Posted by Gravedigger

Who gives a shit about this whole thing?

1. Either he's lying, Notre Dame is lying, everyone is lying, and they made up a fictional person to get Notre Dame and Teo amped up as an organization/person overcoming tragedy then that's hilariously annoying, but not this newsworthy.

2. They're all telling the truth and this is the most underwhelming "news" story and Teo is unbelievably gullible, and its hard to believe that a guy who could have most women between 18-22, has to rely on a woman online that puts off meetings with you and you call your girlfriend. It's incredibly naive and immature like a 8 year old.

But this shouldn't be newsworthy, that bumped Lance Armstrongs interview with Oprah and even hostage situation in the middle east, it's pathetic, and the problem is it's everywhere and I can't get it off my radio/television.

I think it's the fact that the whole thing is so bizarre and surreal that makes it interesting (and, therefore, newsworthy). So many strange, ****ed up elements to it. And to think that everybody, especially the media, bought and sold the dead girlfriend story wholeheartedly during the season.

This is a compelling human interest story that suddenly exploded into a massive, mysterious cluster****. That's why people give a shit.

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by Pestilence

If it's all true and he was duped....then it was probably out of keeping an image. You have an "online girlfriend" for years and you've never met her? You tell people that she came to visit you in Hawaii while you were there.

After all that why would I bother believing anything he had to say?...

[The Franchise]

Originally Posted by Rausch

After all that why would I bother believing anything he had to say?...

You don't have to. Shit....I'm having a hard time.