Why would a 22 year old star football player want to have an imaginary gf. He must have had women throwing themselves left and right at him. And how can you call a girl your gf if you never even had sex with her. Weirdness all around, I don't buy anything they say now.
Sports journalism isn't known for being thorough and its very much known for unethical behavior(blatant plagiarism on a regular basis), so its not surprising they didn't do much fact checking.
The fact of the matter is he knew and was in on it, or he is the most gullible person in the world.
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Pretty simple really...so he could have her "die" and he could become a feel good story for the media.
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Yes, you are the only one. Yes, you are the most gullible person on the forums.
Proof:
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8856519/manti-teo-talked-girlfriend-knowing-hoax
Like I said, scumbag trying to profit off of a made-up story that someone close to him had died. I hope he's drafted in the last round.
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Profit? That's quite a leap. Where is the attempted profit?
I'm not suggesting that him lying after he knew the truth was the correct move, but it's certainly understandable.
Young and naive guy starts an online relationship. Then he is thrust in to the limelight because of the success on the field of himself and his team. "Girl" dies, news. He finds out that this "girl" he was involved with was a hoax. He's too upset and embarrassed to come clean right away.
Unless there are new facts, this seems like the most likely scenario to me.
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For three fucking years? I'm sorry, as I said before, if that is true, then he is the biggest moron on the entire planet. How does someone that dumb survive in the world, let alone play Football at a major college?
Yeah I have to go with liar.
KT
These guys are not known for their intelligence. There was one professional football player who went through kindergarten, elementary, junior high school, high school, college and could not read or write.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_Manley
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Even Manley would be laughing his ass off at Te'o and the people who think he's innocent.
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I certainly do not see this as the "most likely" scenario. We are asked to believe a) that a Division 1 All-American football player would date someone for three years without ever arranging a meeting (remember, she was purportedly a 3-hour plane ride away, not in South Africa or something); b) that a college-age man would maintain a three-year long-distance relationship in the era of Skype and Facetime without ever asking to use either with his girlfriend (who was purportedly a Stanford graduate and couldn't credibly claim not to have access to these things); c) that Te'O would not visit his girlfriend even when she was supposedly in the hospital on more than one occasion, for weeks at a time; d) that Te'O was somehow able to send flowers to a nonexistent funeral, for a nonexistent person, without being tipped off that the funeral didn't exist. I do not believe any of these things is remotely plausible.
To me the simplest and likeliest explanation is that he was actively involved in this fraud, either from the very beginning or for at least much of the time it was going on. The best rationale I can see for this bizarre behavior is that he is gay, and likely in a romantic relationship with the very guy who we are being told perpetrated the hoax.
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hmmm...more articles about the duping...
new shit has come to light.
from whats being said right now, he appears to be a victim of a friend's prank. I still dont believe it completely.
new shit has come to light.
from whats being said right now, he appears to be a victim of a friend's prank. I still dont believe it completely.
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