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

I would also hope he is on a suicide watch.

 

It is possible to be a star linebacker with a low degree of self-actualization. He's not being asked to do air traffic control or foreign espionage.

 

Maybe my fantasy football team!

 

I've been wishing for two years that he ends up on the Redskins. Would make a nice transition after the London Fletcher era. As soon as I heard about this story last night, I texted my buddy. "Yeah, so....I'm cool with him NOT ending up on the Redskins now. We can move on."

 

Could someone have cooked this up to deflect attention away from the Seeburg thing blowing up. That's my conspiracy theory.

 

Guy will fall to the third round, Patriots will draft him, and he'll become the second coming of Ray Lewis.

And every team that knee-jerked "won't touch him" will feel like idiots for the next decade.

 

exactly.

I put the odds at 5:1 he doesn't play in the NFL next season. Maybe he finally 'succumbs' to his 'faith' and goes on a Mormon mission or something, but if this blows up in face as the result of some intrepid reporting, he takes a year off.
Dude finally caught a break, if he was going to the NBA he'd hear that his fake girlfriend tastes like poi

 

Oh boy. Sounds like Skip Bayless believes Teo. He's gay.

 

So I am thinking that what started out as a simple Polynesian prank on Teo started to get out of hand and the perpetrators decided to end it by telling Teo that his GF was in an auto accident, then when he wanted to visit they told him that she was in a coma, ( yeah that's it, a coma) then when that didn't work they came up with Leukemia ( The bad kind) , then when that failed they killed her off.

When prank started Teo / ND was not on the national radar for 2013 season. The story mushroomed out of control from there.

 

Is the woman whose picture was used to depict Lennay single? Manti could try hooking up with her.

 

What's the O/U on when Te'o winds up on Oprah?

 

If you this Te'o is the next Ray Lewis, you haven't watched a lot of football in the last decade. If he starts 30 games in his career, much less makes a single Pro Bowl, I'll be surprised. No lateral speed, can't run with wideouts/TEs. He's going to run 4.75 at the combine and everyone will pretend this is the reason. Nope.