Manti Te'o's Girlfriend Story a Hoax

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Originally Posted by USCKingsFan31

I lean towards him being in on it, but I wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't.

Sorry to disrespect anyone here on LGK of the LDS faith, but is a Mormon kid believing in nonsensical tales all that hard to believe?

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That applies to all organized religions.

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Originally Posted by Kubrick

That applies to all organized religions.

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Hey don't forget my unorganized one!

Wow how crazy was this...

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Originally Posted by jammer06

Hey don't forget my unorganized one!

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There's no way an unorganized religion would fall for something this stupid. None.

and the hits keep coming

http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/...pg?w=499&h=886

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Originally Posted by Byatch1979

Why retract the gay thing? Sounds spot on to me.

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Well my first assumption was here was a guy who was part of a macho culture (football) and a deeply pious culture (mormonism).

He would no doubt be feeling tons of pressure from both communities to be "sowing his wild oats" or "settling down and meeting a nice girl" etc etc...

having a girlfriend who was in a coma/sick/dead is a pretty great cover story.

But the more I read about it the more it just sounded like bonkers nonsense and it keeps getting weirder. So who knows.....

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Originally Posted by santiclaws

How could he not be in on it? He met her. The woman he met wasn't her? Then why this elaborate hoax? Why talk to him on the phone for hours and hours? That's an awful lot of work just to mess with him. I think we have just a tip of the iceberg here.

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it's possible he just said he met her in person to not look like a weirdo loser (particularly for an athlete) for saying he met a girl online and they have a strictly internet/phone relationship where he's never seen her except for in photos.

from the deadspin article, they added this yesterday evening:

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Update (6:10 p.m.): Manti Te'o's statement:

This is incredibly embarrassing to talk about, but over an extended period of time, I developed an emotional relationship with a woman I met online.

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sooo... he's saying now that he actually didn't meet her like he's claimed to have before...?

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Originally Posted by lunchbox

it's possible he just said he met her in person to not look like a weirdo loser (particularly for an athlete) for saying he met a girl online and they have a strictly internet/phone relationship where he's never seen her except for in photos.

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That would only explain a part of this. If he is to be believed (yeah, OK), he spent a lot of time actually speaking on the phone with her. If he was the victim, I would tend to believe that he would actually spend considerable time talking to this woman on the phone. Why would someone do this for a joke? That's an awful lot of time to spend on a joke. Most people just aren't that invested in a hoax to spend the kind of time it would appear it would have required just for ****s and giggles. The story just doesn't add up.

SOMEBODY lied about SOMETHING.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...=cWmpGhIZJWw#!

Game, set and match!