Manti Te'o's Dead girlfriend never existed?

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Spartacavolus said:
being an openly gay mormon and a football player could ruin his career and ostracize himself from his friends, family and religion. It's fine to say that it's no big deal to us. But to football, ND, the religion, and his family, it would be a huge deal, and worth a cover up effort, imo.

Just thinking here. Thinking about all angles. The one that makes no sense is that he was the innocent victim of a hoax.
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I could see that, and I would buy the fake gf angle...but kill her off? See that is the holdup.
 
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ABQduck said:
This seems more plausible. He can't be as stupid as the kid who lied that he had a D1 FB scholly and then held a press conference at his HS.
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I think this is worse. The kid that lied about the D1 FB scholly didn't blow a potential multi million NFL contract. The bad part is the story wasn't needed to propel Manti Te'o to the next level.

The other kid got 15 minutes of fame and life went on.
 
#634
#634
He's a Polynesian Morman playing football for a Catholic school.

Are we surprised his girlfriend doesn't exist?
 
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Well, the Domers are sticking their necks out for him far more unequivocally than I expected them to. Swarbrick has put his entire career on the line in a situation where he knows people are going to be digging up everything possible. Maybe Teo really is that much of a complete dumbass.
 
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Spartacavolus said:
If you are already in that deep, what difference does it make?
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If you are gay and make up a fake gf, and it comes out, most people will forgive you and understand. Killing her? That's just unprecedented territory you don't want to get in to.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Well, the Domers are sticking their necks out for him far more unequivocally than I expected them to. Swarbrick has put his entire career on the line in a situation where he knows people are going to be digging up everything possible. Maybe Teo really is that much of a complete dumbass.
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I thought the press conference was telling, IMO.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Well, the Domers are sticking their necks out for him far more unequivocally than I expected them to. Swarbrick has put his entire career on the line in a situation where he knows people are going to be digging up everything possible. Maybe Teo really is that much of a complete dumbass.
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This is pretty close to "so stupid it might be true" territory.
 
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zjcvols said:
If you are gay and make up a fake gf, and it comes out, most people will forgive you and understand. Killing her? That's just unprecedented territory you don't want to get in to.
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I think he is finding that out.

And remember, he didn't really kill anybody. None of it was real to him, but I'm sure it feels real now.
 
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zjcvols said:
If you are gay and make up a fake gf, and it comes out, most people will forgive you and understand. Killing her? That's just unprecedented territory you don't want to get in to.
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You say this as if it's a guarantee that he was fully rational at the time. If he is gay and trying to hide it there's going to be strong emotions involved, add in that his grandmother died, he was under the pressure of a heisman campaign, he plays a sport where head-to-head collisions are common, and he may even have been receiving pressure from family/media to introduce his GF to them. . . not hard to imagine him making the panicked and not well thought out decision of claiming she died.
 
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zjcvols said:
I could see that, and I would buy the fake gf angle...but kill her off? See that is the holdup.
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Having her "die" is the only way to ensure that nobody ever goes looking for her, right?

It is an established fact that Teo was incredibly stupid about something. We just haven't figured out about what yet. It's a waste of time for a smart kid like you to try to put yourself in his shoes.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Having her "die" is the only way to ensure that nobody ever goes looking for her, right?

It is an established fact that Teo was incredibly stupid about something. We just haven't figured out about what yet. It's a waste of time for a smart kid like you to try to put yourself in his shoes.
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This
 
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MDVols said:
ESPN and Sports Illustrated both ran with this story without doing their homework. Hell it was a cover story for Sport Illustated.
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That doesn't make them liars, it just means they fell for the story just like every other news outlet did. They had pictures and everything, they did nothing wrong really except trust what turned out to be a bad source
 
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volfanbill said:
That doesn't make them liars, it just means they fell for the story just like every other news outlet did. They had pictures and everything, they did nothing wrong really except trust what turned out to be a bad source
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Hell, who thinks that a high profile high athlete is going to fake a story about his dead gf?
 
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zjcvols said:
I thought the press conference was telling, IMO.
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I expected Swarbrick to stand up there and talk about how Teo is such a great kid, they interviewed him extensively, they're confident he's not lying, etc etc etc. I expected them to leave themselves some wiggle room if somebody comes up with something more next week.

I did not expect him to unequivocally state that they have evidence from an independent investigator exposing the conspiracy and exonerating Teo. That is a pretty damn serious line in the sand. As I said, Swarbrick's whole career is on the line now over this.
 
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