Manti Te’o's life was SO much better two months ago. He was a Heisman candidate and one of the most dominant defensive players in the country. Notre Dame was the number one team in the country. Te’o was a lock to be one of the top players taken in the draft. 
I’ve read this story about three times already and I still don’t know what the hell is going on here. Back in September his Grandmother and girlfriend both died on the same day and Manti had a beast game that next weekend at Michigan State. Everyone just found out that the girlfriend did not exist.
Did. Not. Exist.
Not at all. Come to find out this girl was put together out of thin air, Facebook pictures, a phone number and a few text messages. But my man Manti was talking like they were about to get married and this was the worst tragedy that ever hit anyone. I don’t know about you and your girlfriends, but if anyone has a main lady who they have never met in real person, that ain’t your lady. I know dudes who don’t claim women while the woman is in the room. Dude’s who don’t claim women who live with them. Don’t claim women who they have kids with. And I’m talking about in private conversations where NO ONE is going to find out. When you claim your girl on NATIONAL TELEVISION. Look, you could be MARRIED. You take off that ring, the only people who know are your friends, your momma, you and God. When you announce your girl on national TV, you are telling the whole world you’re off limits. Hell, AJ McCarron is dating Miss Alabama and he still had a conversation with Brent Musburger after the National Title Game for blowing his spot up. What’s AJ supposed to do with this now?
I like how Manti Te’o had enough technology to have a relationship completely on the internet, but apparently never heard of Skype. If I’m having a long distance relationship, I’m cranking up the webcam, skype, some facetime, something. The phone calls get old quick.
It’s all tough. The BEST CASE scenario at this point is that he was tricked online. That’s pretty horrible. I’m sure dude went through real emotion. He actually seems like a good guy.
The horrible middle option is that he made all this up himself in order to get more attention. That’s horrible. But at least I’d know the kid wasn’t a total victim. But this doesn’t seem likely.
The WORST CASE scenario, what I will call the Tiger Woods, scorched earth theory, the Man-Lie Gay’bro if you will. is that this is an ex-gay lover, spurned by Manti who set up a fake persona to get back at Manti. Te’o, so willing to hide his sexuality in an environment where he is a Hawaiian Mormon at a Catholic school was so desperate to have a beard that he went with the e-beard. And he was so ready to spread the word far and wide he was willing to accept this ridiculous fake chick and spread the word far and wide.
I’m not mad at him for having a digital relationship though. But don’t feel sorry for him. He may have been naive but he was having sex. This might be a little NSFW, but we’ve obtained photographic proof that Manti actually had sex with his girl. It’s a little graphic, but we have a picture of Manti performing oral sex on his girl.Brace yourself.
Don’t borrow his computer. His spacebar doesn’t work anyway.
One good thing. I used to pause and guess every time I had to say his name. Now I know exactly how to pronounce it. Everyone else does too.
-Brock
@Brock you ain’t lied about dudes not claiming women they live with and this youngin’ claiming a woman he may or may not have met. I gotta go with the worse case scenario and think he wanted to hit us with an e-beard. In that case I feel bad for the younin’ cuz he clearly could have gone a simpler route.
I have no idea what to make of this whole situation, and that makes me so sad. I think the real loser from all this is Skype. They obviously have the worst marketing of any company of all time that offers it’s services for free. People are still getting duped by fake online relationships because they don’t use Skype, which is free. That’s like dying of thirst because you didn’t know you could drink water out of the kitchen sink.
@catfish that is hilarious. Your name being Catfish is killing me right now. You set Manti’s ass up.
January is almost over … where is my 2012 ROY award ?
I like you rallying for the new ROY award. Hilarious. If you can’t win an existing award, create one and win that.
But now you’re making me think you are a second persona created by Mr. Jezus in order to try to hedge his bets and try to bring home more than one award.
Which would actually be the most hilarious thing ever. A big twist at the end. It was all a dream. All that.
Shouldn’t it be RmOY?
Rachety Music of the Year
Brock you might be on to me…
Did you used to read Word-up Magazine ?
@MF, that Word up magazine joke is IanMSummers like in its efficiency.
p.s. did you just commit to the fact that Jezus won at least 1 award ?
F*ck no I didn’t commit to Jezus winning an award. Haaaa. Gotta keep that dude waiting. I need to do that shit before it is 2014.
Pretty sure you did just comment to that fact, and fax is fax. So get my shit all shinet up!
Where is my green jacket…
Sucks that everyone jumped the gun before all the facts are out. Our society has become a bunch of damn wolves. Brock, obvious you are a fan and if you just paid attention to this guy and his background throughout his career, this makes sense and not the story from deadspin. Let’s see how many writers come up with a mea culpa……exactly. I can think of dudes that I went to school with that would have fallen for the same shit and then try to save face when talking about it, especially to their own father.
Say What Now…all the facts…it’s one thing to save face it’s another to keep trying to milk fake tears over a non existent woman. Viewing the facts in light most favorable to T’eo (gullible, dumb jock, naive, saving face) it still doesn’t add up. Something smells catfishy (couldn’t resist) in Samoa. If he can prove (phone records) he really was on the phone all nigh e’rynitgh night as he claims and really was listening to her ventilator while she was in a coma I’ll rethink my assessment. We already know that he was willing to embellish this story for maximum heisman votes….I mean sympathy.
Hold up, read the whole story. That man was so confused he didn’t know what to believe. Remember it’s a real woman on the phone that he was duped by. She just wasn’t who she said she was. Also recall that the freak tried to hit reset and hit him up again saying that she faked her death to get away from a drug dealer trying to kill her. And to go along with or she would be killed. Hell 2 other NFL players came out and said they knew her and one of them even said he met her in person. Phone records? Please, when has the victim ever had to produce phone records? Especially when no crime was committed. As for the heisman…. he still played defense and wasn’t going to win anything. Don’t give me the Woodson stuff because he also played some receiver and special teams because UM knew he couldn’t win it otherwise.