Manti Te'o........WTF??

[ednksu]

Manti Te'o's statement:

This is incredibly embarrassing to talk about, but over an extended period of time, I developed an emotional relationship with a woman I met online. We maintained what I thought to be an authentic relationship by communicating frequently online and on the phone, and I grew to care deeply about her. To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating. It further pains me that the grief I felt and the sympathies expressed to me at the time of my grandmother's death in September were in any way deepened by what I believed to be another significant loss in my life. I am enormously grateful for the support of my family, friends and Notre Dame fans throughout this year. To think that I shared with them my happiness about my relationship and details that I thought to be true about her just makes me sick. I hope that people can understand how trying and confusing this whole experience has been. In retrospect, I obviously should have been much more cautious. If anything good comes of this, I hope it is that others will be far more guarded when they engage with people online than I was. Fortunately, I have many wonderful things in my life, and I'm looking forward to putting this painful experience behind me as I focus on preparing for the NFL Draft.

[AbeFroman]

LOL: http://www.domerdomain.com/forum/showthread.php?t=42995

Deadspin story was posted at 4:10pm today

The last comment in that thread was 9:39pm last night

Woah.

[Emo EMAW]

Manti Te'o's statement:

This is incredibly embarrassing to talk about, but over an extended period of time, I developed an emotional relationship with a woman I met online. We maintained what I thought to be an authentic relationship by communicating frequently online and on the phone, and I grew to care deeply about her. To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating. It further pains me that the grief I felt and the sympathies expressed to me at the time of my grandmother's death in September were in any way deepened by what I believed to be another significant loss in my life. I am enormously grateful for the support of my family, friends and Notre Dame fans throughout this year. To think that I shared with them my happiness about my relationship and details that I thought to be true about her just makes me sick. I hope that people can understand how trying and confusing this whole experience has been. In retrospect, I obviously should have been much more cautious. If anything good comes of this, I hope it is that others will be far more guarded when they engage with people online than I was. Fortunately, I have many wonderful things in my life, and I'm looking forward to putting this painful experience behind me as I focus on preparing for the NFL Draft.

This might as well read:

Manti Teo thinks the entire world is an even bigger dumbass than he is.

[AbeFroman]

There are numerous statements from him that they met in person a few times. Now it's "We only ever talked online"

What a dumbass.

[emawer]

Sources also say Collin Klein gave wife Shalin a peck on the lips after the rehearsal dinner.

[KazzuKhatz]

The Te'o story today was definitely one of the more enjoyable days on twitter for me. Top 5 all time off the top of my head

[420seriouscat69]

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RE: Manti Te'o - Catfish victim or a fraud?  (3 votes)

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BenJ1133 wrote: I think he's gay.

Playing for the highest profile conservative catholic school in the nation and being their star player among that. He probably made up the girlfriend to throw people off his personal life.

I don't know, just my theory, I just can't imagine anyone making a fake dead girlfriend purely for publicity.
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Might explain why he's so good at going after tight ends...

[EllRobersonisInnocent]

The Te'o story today was definitely one of the more enjoyable days on twitter for me. Top 5 all time off the top of my head

I thoroughly enjoyed twitter today as well. No work was done after I saw the deadspin article

[Emo EMAW]

That and Chip Kelly....great day.

[bones129]

The Te'o story today was definitely one of the more enjoyable days on twitter for me. Top 5 all time off the top of my head

I thoroughly enjoyed twitter today as well. No work was done after I saw the deadspin article

Definitely brought my workday to a screeching halt.

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[KazzuKhatz]

ND press conference live on ESPN News right now.

[KazzuKhatz]

Swarbrick is referencing CATFISH the TV show. Must watch TV

[DQ12]

college football is the greatest thing

[KazzuKhatz]

Swarbrick is referencing CATFISH the TV show. Must watch TV

LINK?!? ESPN in NOLA is showing some dumb NBA game. WTF.

EspnNEWS not ESPN. Idk about any online links

[wetwillie]

This is just fantastic

[SkinnyBenny]

Missed that post. Just drove home super fast from work and a friend told me it was on ESPN.

[06wildcat]

Notre Dame's position on this is that a group of people spent the last three or four years creating a fake online/phone identity to scam a football player no one outside of South Bend had heard about until last fall. Sounds legit.

[kso_FAN]

Teo's work here makes goEMAW and Arkansas fans look like amateur hour. Teo is definitely BITB at this, now fooling his own school.

[ew2x4]

I just want to say I'm greatly enjoying this.

[SkinnyBenny]

Notre Dame's position on this is that a group of people spent the last three or four years creating a fake online/phone identity to scam a football player no one outside of South Bend had heard about until last fall. Sounds legit.

Yep. The press conference from the very beginning was a giant charade of hoaxes and victims. I'm now firmly in the camp that this d00d knew, at least for a long time.

Also...LOL @ the whole "Totally, we learned about this on December 26th and we were gonna come out with it and tell the media all about it, but totally we just wanted to let the private investigators run through everything first. Oh and we suspect these guys were just trying to extort him."

WUT.

[mocat]

overblown story, actually boring.   Internet scam, Manti fell for it.  That's the only WOW is see.  But the haters are out in full force.    Face it people, ND IS the story in college football.  I thought the beating they took in the NCG would effect that fact, but apparently ND is still ND, the most important team in college football.  The vistors here only prove my point.

It's just so amazing to be able to have the internet in all of this. God bless the information superhighway.

The internet is simultaneously the cause of this story and the way we can all revel in it!

[bones129]

This gets better with every passing hour.

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[Cire]

Mormons are dorks

[bubbles4ksu]

college football is the greatest thing

provides a matchless narrative.

[doom]

It's hard not to believe his story...

Because he looks like a respect who might fall for that kind of crap.  Either way ND needs to step up the jersey chasers.