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".Originally Posted by NatureBoy
TigerDroppings all over it as usual...
http://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/p...irlfriend.aspx
Here's my favorite:
Meme generators working overtime today
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.
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.
Nice! The Usual Suspects getting some meme love. I approve!TigerDroppings all over it as usual...
http://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/p...irlfriend.aspx
Here's my favorite:
Tom Rinaldi is glad he dodged that bullet and gave it to Wojo
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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