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It's starting to sound like the intended story is that "she" wrote those letters in advance of her death, one for each game. That's why in that interview he says "it's kind of creepy".Quote:
Originally Posted by NatureBoy
TigerDroppings all over it as usual...
http://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/p...irlfriend.aspx
Here's my favorite:
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Meme generators working overtime today :D
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Meh some college kid lying about having a GF and getting caught EASILY trumps an imperial president running rough shot over the 2nd Amendment to the United States Constitution in today's culture.Quote:
Originally Posted by souljahbill
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If ESPN stops forcing this shit in our faces, every fucking weekend they have some sad story about how someone overcame adversity. Look I get life sucks, now start the damn game!! That shit drives me nuts, so its not really this kids fault that they felt compelled to tell us about it every week ND played and ran a story on it, did he stop it no, but its not 100% his fault either.Quote:
Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
Nice! The Usual Suspects getting some meme love. I approve!Quote:
Originally Posted by gschwendt
Tom Rinaldi is glad he dodged that bullet and gave it to Wojo :DQuote:
Originally Posted by oweb26
I agree there. The national championship game was unbearable, they wouldn't miss a single opportunity to bring up the dead grandma and girlfriend. So I agree with that, they do need to give it a rest after a while. ESPN overkills every fucking thing they touch.Quote:
Originally Posted by oweb26
But, if Te'o was indeed complicit in this whole fraud from day one, and it was created to create some national sympathy story and try and use it to leap into a Heisman campaign, then this is indeed a big story, as a player tried to fraudulently gain national recognition and use it to put his name in the national headlines and make a run at a major, prestigious college football award with that created publicity, an award that would no doubt result in a higher draft pick, which would mean a more lucrative contract from whichever NFL team drafted him.
And if it was all created by Te'o and whoever else was involved, then it was a massive lie that they went to longer lengths than most to pull off, creating fake twitter accounts, writing letters/emails, etc, creating all the major details of the life of this fictional girl to tell to the media in interviews and stories, etc. I sure as hell wouldn't go to those lengths. Granted, they got caught with their pants down in the end, with no record of this girl graduating from Stanford, no police records of an accident, no hospital records of her battle with leukemia, no death records or obituaries published. Then the contradictory comments, between the Notre Dame and Te'o statements now saying it was a relationship that was entirely online and they never met, and Te'o was duped, whereas in the past, Te'o said he met her after a Stanford game, and Te'o family said she one time even flew to Hawaii when Te'o was at home, etc. It all reeks.
Then you have the public, technically, being defrauded as a shit ton of people donated to leukemia research funds and other stuff in memory of this fake girlfriend as a means of support for Te'o. Would they have still donated without the whole dead girlfriend story? Some maybe, but 99% probably not. So all these people were making donations in memory of this girlfriend that died of leukemia, only to find out that she never existed.
So this is more than just some football player telling a lie and getting caught and that's all. It's a much bigger story than that. It may not be on the same level as all the political happenings currently going on, but who gives a fuck? This is a thread about a college football story in a college football forum. If other people and posters want to talk about certain stories, they can go talk about them somewhere else. Just because there are some big stories in the political world doesn't mean every other fucking story in other aspects of life suddenly stop and cease to exists like Te'o fake girlfriend. And it doesn't mean that some of us don't want to get away from all the never ending political bullshit and just talk sports or something else for a change.
Hear Hear!!!
I'm kinda wondering if none of this stuff even happened to Te'o, would he have been a Heisman finalist? You have to ask yourself that now. In my opinion, and quite a few others, Jarvis Jones was the best defensive player in the nation.
Well, the perfect season by Notre Dame certainly helped a lot, as Te'o and the entire team got daily publicity from being and going undefeated throughout the season. As for Te'o personally, was he being considered a top candidate to win the Heisman going into this season? Was he a name on the list but not necessarily a front runner? Or did he suddenly leap up the list after that big game that he had after the whole grandmother and "girlfriend" dying story broke and he became a national name from all the interviews and news stories about everything with the deaths?Quote:
Originally Posted by JBHuskers
If he was already being considered a candidate, then it certainly helped some, maybe pushing him from top 5 or near the top of the list to #1/#2 right there with Johnny Football on the Heisman ballots, but he probably would have been up there at least top 5.
But if he suddenly leaped up the list and appeared as a Heisman candidate in the week(s) after that much publicized game after the death of his grandmother and fake girlfriend, then I honestly don't think he would have been there competing for it at the end. He might have made his way into the top 5 at the very end with the season Notre Dame had and all that coverage of the team as a whole helping, but I don't think he would have been in contention to win it without that sympathy story breaking if he wasn't already in contention before it.
A per usual when ridiculous stuff like this comes out, I will wait for everything to come out before passing judgement.
That said, I've always been one to not give a shit about a player after he's done playing for my college team. Doing otherwise makes it difficult as a Steelers fan when the player ends up with a team I absolutely hate.
I'm just ready for this to be over so everyone can quit speculating about it.
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I think he would have still.Quote:
Originally Posted by JBHuskers
I don't really watch College Football that much or follow it heavily. Yet I knew who he was and what he was doing on the field WAY before hearing about that story. It didn't make me like him even more or appreciate what he was doing.
Don't think he won those awards based on that either.
As I was telling my wife lastnight..he didn't need publicity as people likely already knew of him before anyway...especially if they picked up a newspaper, watched CFB or ESPN prior to them jumping all over that story.
Basically. And I'd like to see him play some more football.Quote:
Originally Posted by steelerfan
And it wasn't just him that played shitty and got beat down in the game...the entire team did along with the Coaching staff
It's just sad that this is getting so much attention yet this gets nothing from the media or Notre Dame.
http://www.salon.com/2013/01/17/notr...uble_standard/
There is a more about the incident around the web if you want to search around also.
I don't have any real proof but I've read on message boards for ND that the player involved played or was dressed for every game this year.
Here is another piece from Deadspin many have probably not read that are more alarming to me then a fake girlfriend :fp:
http://deadspin.com/5897809/this-is-...assaulting-you
Even though most people don't like Mel Kiper, but for reference's sake, he has Te'o at #8 in the initial mock.
whatever ?
if he can play ball, he'll still get drafted. This is already boring.
And this story continues to reek even more. The AP went back through all there interviews, stories, etc over the last year. Te'o was continuing to talk up the dead girlfriend angle on December 8th and 11th, when Notre Dame is nowing saying he first "discovered" the whole girlfriend/girlfriend dying of leukemia was false on December 6th. So why the hell did he continue to tell a story that he now knew was a lie, and continue to perpetuate the lie, in interviews two and five days after he supposedly found out this chick never actually existed and never died of leukemia? This is starting to stink more and more with every passing hour.
That is fuckin' TERRIBLE. I fuckin' hate the national media and how they don't talk about this shit at all. :smh:Quote:
Originally Posted by psusnoop
Teammates knew about it and say they knew he was involved.
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Originally Posted by gschwendt
Ten years ago, before Skype, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, smartphones, etc, etc, back when AIM ruled the land, it was easy to get duped. Today ... much harder.Quote:
Originally Posted by morsdraconis
On the other hand, there is a documentary and entire TV series (Catfish) based around this whole concept. So obviously it's still very, very easy to get duped. And anybody who says otherwise is, while very smart and obviously wouldn't get duped themselves, kidding themselves about how smart and logical everyone else is.
Source?Quote:
Originally Posted by JBHuskers
http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-foo...6pLid%3D258466Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffHCross
I agree MorsQuote:
Originally Posted by morsdraconis
That's a far cry from "knew he was involved". ESPN has a similar article saying that he played it up, but does not say that players knew that she was a fake, or believed he did.Quote:
Originally Posted by oweb26
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Originally Posted by psusnoop
"At all" is a stretch. That story was talked about quite a bit, actually, leading up to the National Championship game. And now it's being talked about again. ESPN isn't running it as a main story, of course, but it is getting talked about.Quote:
Originally Posted by morsdraconis
The simply reality is that our country is more fascinated by gossip and innuendo (see: TMZ) than crime and justice ... unless it's on Law & Order.
Multiple radio shows today.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffHCross
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http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/8...bobblehead-dayQuote:
As part of the promotion in late May, the first 1,000 fans would get an empty bobblehead box, there will be a pretend kiss cam for fans to kiss their imaginary friends and there will be an imaginary food fight in the kids' area, as well as an air guitar contest.
does this site really exist?Quote:
Ten years ago, before Skype, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, smartphones, etc, etc, back when AIM ruled the land, it was easy to get duped. Today ... much harder.
On the other hand, there is a documentary and entire TV series (Catfish) based around this whole concept. So obviously it's still very, very easy to get duped. And anybody who says otherwise is, while very smart and obviously wouldn't get duped themselves, kidding themselves about how smart and logical everyone else is.
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Originally Posted by JeffHCross
There was this thing that happened at PSU not so long ago that begs to differ, see there just isn't a eye catching name to tie into the story at Notre Dame.
These crimes are equally has horrendous as the acts at PSU yet I haven't seen even a hint of a mention on my local news about this. Can you say the same is true about the Jerry Sandusky crimes? I bet not, not even close. Something is getting covered up and it's just not these crimes and it's a shame.
Well, one of the exceptions is anything involving children, naturally. Though that story had a healthy amount of water-cooler gossip too. And it's not a rule by any means, just an over-generalization on my part.Quote:
Originally Posted by psusnoop
Are you saying you're surprised you haven't seen anything about Lizzy Seeberg on your local news? I'm not. Among other reasons, it's a two year old story that's just getting brought up again.
Scott Fujita said he didn't know how Manti Te'o was before this story...as difficult as I find that hard to believe
It could be said people didn't know who Scott Fujita was until the Bounty story broke.
No I agree that it's not crazy to think it's not being covered because it is a 2 year old story but to think how the NCAA came down on PSU yet not a peep as to looking into the culture at Notre Dame bothers me still.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffHCross
I won't sidetrack this thread though, my bad guys!
Are you comparing rape penis size? :D
That's funny as much as joking about being raped can be anyway.
Owwwwww! :D :D :D
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OUCH! That's a good one though.