* Official Manti Te'o Fake GF Thread *

[tavarua88]

umm, wha???

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

[J-Rod]

Just read the whole article. Not sure what to think. Manti is one attention-starved individual if this is legit. Guy is mental.

[tavarua88]

yea, this is pretty insane, if true. it seems deadspin actually did their research for this one.

Just read the whole article. Not sure what to think. Manti is one attention-starved individual if this is legit. Guy is mental.

[reignjah11]

wow, crazy article! maybe the catfish show on mtv should do an episode on manti and his girlfriend.

[tavarua88]

would love to be in the room during combine interviews. how far does he drop on the draft boards if this is true?

[tavarua88]

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

spoke with friends and family who have close ties on this one and was told it was known since Oct that something was fishy...

[Haynr8dr]

Wow.

If Manti is a "victim" here, how does this hurt his draft status?

I don't get that thinking.

[Haynr8dr]

... also, if this can be substantiated, why isn't it buzzing on all our local news websites or programs?

ANYTHING to do with Manti is a headliner here. If he farts, our news reports it, so ... .

[tavarua88]

double post

[tavarua88]

read the article, while it doesnt flat out say so, they believe Te'o had to have some knowledge of what was going on.

I just finished chatting with people I know and heard that tidbit that something was amiss about the gf since Oct.

There was no Lennay Kekua. Lennay Kekua did not meet Manti Te'o after the Stanford game in 2009. Lennay Kekua did not attend Stanford. Lennay Kekua never visited Manti Te'o in Hawaii. Lennay Kekua was not in a car accident. Lennay Kekua did not talk to Manti Te'o every night on the telephone. She was not diagnosed with cancer, did not spend time in the hospital, did not engage in a lengthy battle with leukemia. She never had a bone marrow transplant. She was not released from the hospital on Sept. 10, nor did Brian Te'o congratulate her for this over the telephone. She did not insist that Manti Te'o play in the Michigan State or Michigan games, and did not request he send white flowers to her funeral. Her favorite color was not white. Her brother, Koa, did not inform Manti Te'o that she was dead. Koa did not exist. Her funeral did not take place in Carson, Calif., and her casket was not closed at 9 a.m. exactly. She was not laid to rest.

Lennay Kekua's last words to Manti Te'o were not "I love you."

A friend of Ronaiah Tuiasosopo told us he was "80 percent sure" that Manti Te'o was "in on it," and that the two perpetrated Lennay Kekua's death with publicity in mind. According to the friend, there were numerous photos of Ronaiah Tuiasosopo and Te'o together on Tuiasosopo's now-deleted Instagram account.

Wow.

If Manti is a "victim" here, how does this hurt his draft status?

I don't get that thinking.

[boom]

With Manti not coming out saying she never was his girlfriend when even ESPN asked him about his "dead girlfriend" in an interview it shows that he and his family was in on it all along. He rode the publicity from it.

[Haynr8dr]

... also, if this can be substantiated, why isn't it buzzing on all our local news websites or programs?

ANYTHING to do with Manti is a headliner here. If he farts, our news reports it, so ... .

... and just as I post that, HNN now has it as "breaking news".

[Irse]

If this article is true, why didn't Te'o say something about the nonexisitent girlfriend? It wasn't like the media didn't report it.

[Irse]

Advertiser has a story on it. Oh wait, they were blacklisted.
http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/brea ... =187197641

[Desert Isle]

wow, crazy article! maybe the catfish show on mtv should do an episode on manti and his girlfriend.

I JUST saw the Catfish documentary last week! I was amazed the woman thought she could keep up the story, and she was just trying to fool one person.

How did the Teos think a whole nation of college football fans and media wouldn't find out?

Manti's statement is that he was the victim of a hoax:
http://espn.go.com/chicago/college-foot ... ently-hoax

That might be believable if their story all along had been he had never met Lennay. But here's the original South Bend Tribune article:

http://articles.southbendtribune.com/20 ... head-coach

It never felt like a chance meeting, although it probably appeared that way from the outside looking in.

Their stares got pleasantly tangled, then Manti Te'o extended his hand to the stranger with a warm smile and soulful eyes.

"They started out as just friends," Brian Te'o said. "Every once in a while, she would travel to Hawaii, and that happened to be the time Manti was home, so he would meet with her there. But within the last year, they became a couple.

So both Brian and Manti Te'o told the South Bend paper that Manti had met Lennay and she had visited him in Hawaii.

An incredible - and sad - story of deception.