Deadspin: Manti Te'o's dead girlfriend story was a hoax

Um. Er.

http://deadspin.com/5976517/manti-teos-dead-girlfriend-the-most-heartbreaking-and-inspirational-story-of-the-college-football-season-is-a-hoax

 

Um, yeah. Wow. I don't have much use for most Deadspin stories, but that was quite a takedown of this storyline.

 

Oh, my God.

 

That's hard to even fathom.

 

If true, this is 10 times worse than Tim Johnson lying about his Vietnam service record. That's about the only thing I can think of that comes close.

 

Deadspin: Te'o's "dead girlfriend" a hoax ...

Either the Deadspin folks have a five-star investigative piece on their hands, or the Te'os OWN them.

Either way ... damn.

http://deadspin.com/5976517/manti-teos-dead-girlfriend-the-most-heartbreaking-and-inspirational-story-of-the-college-football-season-is-a-hoax

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Manti Te'o's deceased girlfriend a fraud?

So says Deadspin ... some major investigative work here ...

http://deadspin.com/5976517/manti-teos-dead-girlfriend-the-most-heartbreaking-and-inspirational-story-of-the-college-football-season-is-a-hoax?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

 

I get the feeling he had an Internet girlfriend who faked her death. A "Catfish"-type deal.

I remember it was somewhat foggy when the story first broke - that his grandmother and "a friend" had died that week. Then it kind of blew up overnight.

 

Re: Deadspin: Te'o's "dead girlfriend" a hoax ...

This speaks, um, heh...poorly...of Te'o. Stephen Glass territory.

But a lot of news organizations just got exceedingly duped for failing to do some pretty basic reporting. And in this day and age, that really shouldn't happen to this extent.

 

How bad do a bunch of reporters look right now?

 

Like, he believes the story to be true?

That would be something. Have you seen the new MTV version of Catfish? Crazy shit.

 

Toward the bottom of the story, the reporters bring up whether it's that or that he knew and was in on it. The amount of lies that were told make it seem like he had to be in on it at some level.

Either way, this is crazy. I'm just trying to wrap my head around it.

Edit: Or, do you mean that you think he had an Internet girlfriend who faked her death, and then once he realized he'd been duped, he ran with it to try and save face?