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Onkel Neal 01-16-13 10:49 PM
Manti Teo: I mean, WTH?
 
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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.

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.
Full story here

Have I slipped into Bizarroworld somehow? :huh:

Takeda Shingen 01-16-13 10:53 PM
I cannot understand why people make lies of this proportion. They have to know that it will come out in the end.

Cybermat47 01-17-13 03:45 AM
That's just pathetic.

Jimbuna 01-17-13 07:16 AM
The poor guys obviously suffering from a sheltered upbringing :03:

August 01-17-13 10:19 AM
What any of this has to do with football escapes me. (insert shrug smiley if we had one)

AVGWarhawk 01-17-13 10:26 AM
Personally I do not understand why this made every major news outlet. Even ESPN put up all stops to run this story. Who gives a rat's pa-toot what delusional story he fabricated? I certainly don't. This is National Inquirer garbage. If there was ever proof needed that America's priorities are screwed this would be it.

Takeda Shingen 01-17-13 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk (Post 1994498)
Personally I do not understand why this made every major news outlet. Even ESPN put up all stops to run this story. Who gives a rat's pa-toot what delusional story he fabricated? I certainly don't. This is National Inquirer garbage. If there was ever proof needed that America's priorities are screwed this would be it.
They ran this story because every single news outlet in America ran the original hoax story the first time. There was a massive outpouring of support for this guy and his ficticious grief. Every morning news program ran a segment on it. It was all over ESPN too. It is only natural to run stories telling us that the original story was all a hoax, and that a lot of people got played.

AVGWarhawk 01-17-13 11:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen (Post 1994507)
They ran this story because every single news outlet in America ran the original hoax story the first time. There was a massive outpouring of support for this guy and his ficticious grief. Every morning news program ran a segment on it. It was all over ESPN too. It is only natural to run stories telling us that the original story was all a hoax, and that a lot of people got played.
I did not see the original story. And honestly, what is it about this guy that he gets the entire news organization to produce a spot about it? Stories like his occur everyday. It is still fodder for The National Inquirer IMO.

Takeda Shingen 01-17-13 11:12 AM
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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk (Post 1994513)
Well Tak, I did not see the original story. And honestly, what about this guy does he gets the entire news organization to produce a spot about it? Stories like his occur everyday. It is still fodder for The National Inquirer.
It probably had something to do with him being the star linebacker for a Notre Dame team playing for the BCS National Championship. You know, hero linebacker leads team to victory while overcoming great personal hardship.

AVGWarhawk 01-17-13 11:38 AM
Makes for great movies I guess. However, this one has a twisted ending! :haha: He has successfully marked himself and career. The mark of instability. :doh:

Tchocky 01-17-13 03:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen (Post 1994286)
I cannot understand why people make lies of this proportion. They have to know that it will come out in the end.
cf Armstrong, Lance

Armistead 01-17-13 03:57 PM
Isn't he still saying it was love, but just an online affair and he got scammed...

Poor guy.......:har:

Worse, I caught an hour of the Jodi Arias trial and thought "what a nice girl". You'll have to forgive me, first I've heard of it in detail, nice girl, lures her ex boyfriend with some wild sex, takes pics of him in the shower, when he's not looking she stabs him about 27 times, shoots him and cuts his throat from ear to ear. Let it be a lesson guys....

http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4787983141044944&pid=1.9

AVGWarhawk 01-17-13 04:01 PM
They are always nice girls. :-?

Platapus 01-17-13 06:47 PM
Man makes up story about having a girlfriend.

I believe the term is beard.

Onkel Neal 01-17-13 10:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen (Post 1994517)
It probably had something to do with him being the star linebacker for a Notre Dame team playing for the BCS National Championship. You know, hero linebacker leads team to victory while overcoming great personal hardship.
I blame Lance Armstrong.


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