OtherGround Forum >> Manti Teo's dead gf a hoax

I guess, if you're as mormon as Teo claims to be, and as busy as he must be, it might be possible to have only 1 or 2 real meetings with someone and then be "tricked" into thinking you're interacting with her on twitter and be ok with that level of interaction with the "love of your life."  Mormons do get married quick and easy, and they certainly don't fuck beforehand.  Its still ridiculously implausible though.  By far the simplest explanation is that he fabricated the relationship to get publicity.  

JustPeed - Nothing about this turning out to be fake on sportcenter

Cotton -

JustPeed -  Nothing about this turning out to be fake on sportcenter

They are not going to run with that story based off what Dead Spin says. They will research it themselves first. If they did and this were true he would make more from them than he would in the NFL from the massive slander lawsuit.

Paul Feinbaum had the guy from Deadspin on and is recapping now. 

J Rokk -  Watch the video, he's tearing up saying he lost the love of his life and the last thing she said to him was "I love you". That's no catfish shit. That's world class trolling, straight sociopath shit.

hellride - If this is true, this guy has to go undrafted. What kind of character issues does this bring up?

First round to the Bengals

http://espn.go.com/ncf/conversations/_/id/8851033/story-manti-teo-girlfriend-death-apparently-hoax

On Sportscenter now. 

Te'o issued a statement Tuesday afternoon:

"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."

Meohfumado - lol @ the damage control ND and T'eo are doing on this.

Its pathetic and transparent.

"We found out Dec 26th, but continued to let the media push the story up until the NC game because....uh...why?"

Yeah even if that's true it's still fucked up. 

As a Te'o nuthugger from Hawaii, I just read that whole thing and am floored...

I followed the story all year and that article floored me, lol, but there is so much detail in it its pretty much a slam dunk, the girl never existed, ESPN, CBS, etc all QUOTED HER ON NATIONAL TV WITH PICTURES, what hacks, lol...

His dad teven talked about talking to her on the phone

Manti invented her brother

whoa...

IMO, there is no way he isnt in on it, he made up so many details about their conversations and meetings to be duped - amazing stuff

the mainstream media seems to have just ran everything based on the South Bend newspapers reporting

Polynesians are a higher % than normal homosexual, I'm just saying...