Manti Te'o Dead Girlfriend ... A Hoax?

Jason P
Jason P Posts: 19,327
edited February 2013 in All Encompassing Trip
This appears to be really messed up if true ...

Manti Te’o’s Dead Girlfriend, The Most Heartbreaking And Inspirational Story Of The College Football Season, Is A Hoax

Timothy Burke and Jack Dickey

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.

Kekua, 22 years old, had been in a serious car accident in California, and then had been diagnosed with leukemia. SI's Pete Thamel described how Te'o would phone her in her hospital room and stay on the line with her as he slept through the night. "Her relatives told him that at her lowest points, as she fought to emerge from a coma, her breathing rate would increase at the sound of his voice," Thamel wrote.

Upon receiving the news of the two deaths, Te'o went out and led the Fighting Irish to a 20-3 upset of Michigan State, racking up 12 tackles. It was heartbreaking and inspirational. Te'o would appear on ESPN's College GameDay to talk about the letters Kekua had written him during her illness. He would send a heartfelt letter to the parents of a sick child, discussing his experience with disease and grief. The South Bend Tribune wrote an article describing the young couple's fairytale meeting—she, a Stanford student; he, a Notre Dame star—after a football game outside Palo Alto.

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.


http://deadspin.com/5976517/manti-teos-dead-girlfriend-the-most-heartbreaking-and-inspirational-story-of-the-college-football-season-is-a-hoax#13583742226093&{"type":"iframeUpdated","height":1002}]
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  • DS1119
    DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    I think he did.
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,036
    I just came here to post this. Holy shit, what a sick fuck.
  • BinauralJam
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    That's some Epic level of Shitty
  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 12,961
    so bama exposed him as a fraud as a linebacker and now exposed as a lying piece of shit. let's see the golden domers spin this one
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,327
    What does this do to his draft stock?

    And what is the Vegas line that he ends up on the Raiders or Bengals. Sky-high, right?
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  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,036
    So ND is claiming that the Teo's said it was a hoax against him.

    Well how do they explain all the back and forth and his dad saying she travelled to Hawaii and all...
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,036
    And this twitter account is just awesome

    https://twitter.com/FakeMantiTeo
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    all that to win a heisman...pathetic
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,036
    I'm so fucking confused
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
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  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,036
    norm wrote:
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    Now what the fuck does this mean?

    Now I'm even more mindfucked
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    Cliffy6745 wrote:
    norm wrote:
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    Now what the fuck does this mean?

    Now I'm even more mindfucked

    it's from nov 21st but still... :lol::lol:
  • 81
    81 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    is there a hashtag for him yet
    81 is now off the air

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  • Enkidu
    Enkidu So Cal Posts: 2,996
    It's such a weird story, I don't really understand it.
  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,373
    :fp:
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  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 12,961
    now they are trying to spin it that he was duped. what a bunch of assholes
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,327
    For Manti it comes down to two admissions ...

    1) Lying

    Or

    2) Stupid

    I guess a third option is both lying and stupid ...
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,327
    I found a picture of the person who duped Manti ...

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  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    Sports articles are always the longest articles...and guys actually have the attention span to read them? :lol:

    anywho...all I have to say is, "anybody ever see the movie or TV show 'Catfish'"?
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