Manti Teo's Dead Girlfriend is a hoax

[LegandofthePack15]

Manti Teo is gay.

Cool! Now Manti Teo is gonna be a Packer one way or another. The Packers need a hotshot ILB and when Ted Thompson wants something very bad, he gets it. Might I add, Thompson is also....

I can almost see it.
That dream I'm dreaming, but
There's a voice inside my head saying
You'll never reach it
Every step I'm takin'
Every move I make
Feels lost with no direction,
My faith is shakin'
But I, I gotta keep tryin'
Gotta keep my head held high

There's always gonna be another mountain
I'm always gonna wanna make it move
Always gonna be an uphill battle
Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose
Ain't about how fast I get there
Ain't about what's waitin' on the other side
It's the climb

[Cleft Crusty]

Notre Dame is standing by Te'o saying they have uncovered online chatter in which 2 people are talking about how much they're enjoying perpetrating the hoax. They're saying there were a number of online characters involved, although it is uncertain whether there were a bunch of people involved, or just 2 people creating characters.

Who would perpetrate such deception? Unthinkable.

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What is wrong with people?

To lie so publicly and think that you will not be caught.

In all my studies for my three Ph.D's, I've never encountered such a story of hoax, self-deception, whatever it is.

Repped.

[pbmax]

DRAFT HIM NOW!

I bet Wayne Simmons had a dead girlfriend or two.

[Deputy Nutz]

I bet Wayne Simmons had a dead girlfriend or two.

repped

[mraynrand]

I bet Wayne Simmons had a dead girlfriend or two.

So did Torrance Marsahall. Oh, I'm sorry, that was a fictitious GF. But that's appropriate here, if she had cancer. Maybe if she's still alive, she'll post something.

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In his PC, the Notre Dame President said. "The saddest think about this is, the most trusting person I've ever met will never be the same again". Notre Dame is sticking their neck out for him big time. If he was involved in the hoax, and has also been lying to Notre Dame as they defend him, he really is a low-life.

Notre Dame is in serious trouble then. In addition to the quote Patler had earlier about how he had been around his girlfriend's family, there are also stories from his father about the girl coming out to Hawaii to visit them. Another story said his parents met her.

But most of all, the original story was that they met out at Stanford after a game in 2009.

[3irty1]

Who would perpetrate such deception? Unthinkable.

Well mormons have been known to make shit up on occasion.

[KYPack]

The kid is in some deep yogurt.

For one other thing, Teo (or somebody) used a girl's picture on the net/Twitter. She is alive & all + she doesn't like all this shit about being used as the fake dead girl.

That can get Teo's ass in another sling.

I think the kid falls to the 3rd or lower.

yeah, let's grab him.

His boyfriend can move to Allouez or somewhere.

[Joemailman]

The story gets stranger:

http://espn.go.com/college-football/...pparently-hoax

Reagan Mauia, an Arizona Cardinals fullback, said he believes Kekua existed because he met her in person when he and other Polynesian teammates and Pittsburgh Steelers star Troy Polamalu went to do charity work in American Samoa in June 2011.

"This was before her and Manti," Mauia said Wednesday evening. "I don't think Manti was even in the picture, but she and I became good friends. We would talk off and on, just checking up on each other kind of thing. I am close to her family. When she was going through the loss of her father, I was -- I offered a comforting shoulder and just someone to bounce her emotions off. That was just from meeting her in Samoa."

Mauia said Tuiasosopo -- whom Mauia believes is Kekua's cousin -- introduced the two. After the initial meeting, Mauia said he met her at an "after-party" for all of the athletes involved in the camp.

"She was tall," he said. "Volleyball-type of physique. She was athletic, tall, beautiful. Long hair. Polynesian. She looked like a model ... "

He said it is his understanding that Kekua's mother is operating her Twitter account. He said he'd never met her mother. When told by a reporter that she apparently might not have existed, Mauia said: "No, she is real."

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The story gets stranger:

http://espn.go.com/college-football/...pparently-hoax

Maybe Tuiasosopo is Samoan for "grifter". In the Tuiasosopo family, either you play football or you grift football. The story about someone else claiming to have met her sounds possible, because Manti was not the first online romance she developed.

Was this Lennay Kekua? We spoke with friends and relatives of Ronaiah Tuiasosopo who asserted that Ronaiah was the man behind Lennay. He created Lennay in 2008, one source said, and Te'o wasn't the first person to have an online "relationship" with her. One mark—who had been "introduced" to Lennay by Tuiasosopo—lasted about a month before family members grew suspicious that Lennay could never be found on the telephone, and that wherever one expected Lennay to be, Ronaiah was there instead. Two sources discounted Ronaiah's stunt as a prank that only metastasized because of Te'o's rise to national celebrity this past season.

Wonder if Ronaiah had a female accomplice? Teo told the Notre Dame AD that they had talked on the phone and she called him early in December, to tell him she had not died. But did need help getting money out of Nigeria.

[Brandon494]

[Jimx29]

First interview with the girlfriend

[JohnMexico]

Uh

[rbaloha1]

Boy, this is disgusting.

Reporting of this story is much different in Hawaii. Teo is a very trusting person that is naive.

IMO, Manti was victimized by a sick sophisticated sophmoric hoax. In Hawaii there is always much jealousy/resentment with success on the national and international level. There is saying in Hawaii about the not allowing the crab in the bucket to escape and hitting down the nail that sticks out.

Samoans place a huge emphasis on family and community. The Tuiasosopo family will release the truth which imo ultimately ends Teo's shame.

Maybe Teo falls to the Packers -- but please rats stay away from this island boy.