http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt...ti+Teo&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-701 So the details of this bizarre story are still coming in, but from what I'm reading and hearing Manti Te'o is either a liar that was caught red handed or he may be the most naive person alive. Reguardless, the insperational story of the 2012 college football season is a hoax.
Who knows what goes through a persons head? I've been listening to sports talk radio today and Te'o has said that he's met her before...Which at this point seems to be a lie. Perhaps he was just embarrassed about the status to their "relationship".
You would think a college football player of his stature would have no problem getting a girl friend in real life...and not resort to solely an on-line relationship.
I agree, which is one reason why this story, to me at least, seems so very odd. A 2 year relationship online with a person he's never met, yet she's the "love of his life". He may have attended Notre Dame, but if I'm reading this story correctly he is no genius.
Or he's gay, and afraid to admit it...so making up an on-line girl friend keeps from having to have real one. Weird, to say the least. There are plenty of pretenders out there who prey on people's emotions on-line. It's easy enough to do, to just make up a persona...but frankly those who fall for that are gullible, and I have less sympathy.
I never thought about that, and you could be right. Without him answering some specific questions it's going to be hard to say if he was lying or just suckered into this relationship by a random person that was screwing with his head. Hard telling at this point, but with the way the media is digging into this story I'm sure more details will emerge shortly.
Well if he made up the story or he got fooled on-line...it's one of three things. He's gay, and made up the girl friend to cover this. He's a socio-path who craves attention and made up the story to get sympathy. He's gullible and very shy in real life and got suckered into an on-line relationship with a pretender who gets their jollies manipulating another person's emotions. All in all... it's weird.
I think this episode says a great deal about young people in America today. They are deeply flawed. What's even worse is what this says about Notre Dame. I can only say that those who once walked the Quad before the Golden Dome are deeply dismayed at their alma mater. Edit: I remember the inscription carved into the stone. It said "God, Country, and Notre Dame." Now I'm an atheist, a post-American, and deeply ashamed.
Try this on for size my friends. No evidence to prove this, simply a thought. The site that broke this story isn't exactly a main stream sports site. Could they have set up this guy to generate publicity for themselves?
Well this story just got even more bizarre, if that's possible. As it turns out, Manti Teo, who thought he was talking on the phone with his 'girlfriend' over the past three years, was actually speaking with a man named Ronaiah Tuiasosopo who was changing his voice to sound like a woman. This young man will never walk into another locker room without hearing every joke in the book.
I wonder how much Obama paid this gentleman and the media to deflect attention away from his rampant corruption?
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