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Manti Te’o’s Dead Girlfriend, The Most Heartbreaking And Inspirational Story Of The College Football Season, Is A Hoaxby Timothy Burke and Jack DickeyQuote:Notre Dame's Manti Te'o, the stories said, played this season under a terrible burden. A Mormon linebacker who led his Catholic school's football program back to glory, Te'o was whipsawed between personal tragedies along the way. In the span of six hours in September, as Sports Illustrated told it, Te'o learned first of the death of his grandmother, Annette Santiago, and then of the death of his girlfriend, Lennay Kekua.
Kekua, 22 years old, had been in a serious car accident in California, and then had been diagnosed with leukemia. SI's Pete Thamel described how Te'o would phone her in her hospital room and stay on the line with her as he slept through the night. "Her relatives told him that at her lowest points, as she fought to emerge from a coma, her breathing rate would increase at the sound of his voice," Thamel wrote.
Upon receiving the news of the two deaths, Te'o went out and led the Fighting Irish to a 20-3 upset of Michigan State, racking up 12 tackles. It was heartbreaking and inspirational. Te'o would appear on ESPN's College GameDay to talk about the letters Kekua had written him during her illness. He would send a heartfelt letter to the parents of a sick child, discussing his experience with disease and grief. The South Bend Tribune wrote an article describing the young couple's fairytale meeting—she, a Stanford student; he, a Notre Dame star—after a football game outside Palo Alto.
Did you enjoy the uplifiting story, the tale of a man who responded to adversity by becoming one of the top players of the game? If so, stop reading... |
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Absolutely no way this can end well for him. |
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Just weird. Again, people are so weird. |
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so much effort for so little. Why even bother? |
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Originally Posted by: musccy  Absolutely no way this can end well for him. Agreed.. either he comes out incredibly naive or more likely got caught up in a lie that will not go away. Cynical minds want to convict.. mine included, but I think ND has done some leg work on this and are pretty confident there is way more to this story. The world now has been introduced to "CatFishing" or a whole different realm. Yes... people are strange.. crazy and weird. Part of the reason it is so damn interesting to study them.. (by the way.. yes that will become stuck in my head..) |
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I am not looking forward to hearing about nothing other than this for the next week. |
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Originally Posted by: gbguy20 I am not looking forward to hearing about nothing other than this for the next week. Agreed.. but it did short cycle the Lance nonstop chatter.. so we will have to wait for the next "story". |
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Just got home for a break and on the radio, Dan Barriero had a guest on that supposedly knew about the fake girlfriend for awhile now. The link is the podcast to his show. The 30 minute mark is the beginning of the interview. |
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Originally Posted by: Formo thanks fo rthe source. I hope we don't have to listen.  |
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Want the real cynic in me to throw out there a far fetched possibility...
People started to question Manti's sexuality.. and this ruse was built as a cover for the hoax. What better way to have a girlfriend, end the constant questions without actually having to date/whatever than a faux girlfriend. Avoidance of the constant questions?
Without some type of extortion element.. it seems to be the only possibly I can come up with to carry it out this far. |
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yeah I saw a few references to this theory today. Don't know if it is so or not. Don't want to know either. |
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Originally Posted by: Pack93z Want the real cynic in me to throw out there a far fetched possibility...
People started to question Manti's sexuality.. and this ruse was built as a cover for the hoax. What better way to have a girlfriend, end the constant questions without actually having to date/whatever than a faux girlfriend. Avoidance of the constant questions?
Without some type of extortion element.. it seems to be the only possibly I can come up with to carry it out this far. I never thought of this. It seems plausible the more I think about it because I read some similar whispers and rumors. |
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