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

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Small Town Guy, Jan 16, 2013.

  1. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    If all that is true, then the biggest mistake was not controlling the story.

    I'd fire CAA if I was Te'o. A company like that should know better.
     
  2. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    If I'm CAA, I'd drop him as a client.
     
  3. exmediahack

    exmediahack Well-Known Member

    This.
     
  4. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

    A player employs an agent/firm to represent his interests, not the other way around.

    If CAA decided to sit on the story, that was a huge mistake.
     
  5. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Because he was scammed? Shit, agents would love to rep somebody that gullible. "No, no, don't read that contract. Just sign it."
     
  6. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    I think they probably tried to get this story killed. And I think you'd be surprised how many stories they've gotten killed over the years that are far more damaging than this. They use the same damage-control people that politicians use.
     
  7. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    Are we sure his grandmother is dead?
     
  8. If Ed Rooney were an editor/reporter: "Yeah, that's right, just, uh, roll her old bones on over here, and I'll dig up your story. You know that's the newspaper's policy."
     
  9. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    So the guy sounded like a girl on the phone?
     
  10. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    [​IMG]

    GRACE!
     
  11. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Yeah. I posted on this thread earlier that one of my high school friends talked about his "girlfriend in Tennessee" that he "met on Facebook" for two or three years. Every time they were supposed to meet, she'd back out. I'm not sure if it's still going on. We stopped going there.

    Also had a fraternity brother as a freshman who claimed he had a girlfriend who was a model back home in upstate New York. He kept a photo from a magazine in his wallet. It was complete bullshit.
     
  12. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    This.

    There was a player awhile back who had photos of him doing cocaine on the Internet. His drug use was common knowledge among the beat writers, but nothing was ever written about it. SI had written a story about him that made him look like a saint, even though the story was spun by the school's PR staff. After it ran, one of the other beat writers and I ran into the SI writer (who we knew) and told him he'd been a victim of the school's PR department and that what he wrote was almost completely inaccurate. We showed him the photos and he was mortified.

    My paper had been told not to address the Internet photos of this guy under any circumstances and that it was all circumstantial evidence. Every other paper that covered the team did the same thing. SI never followed up on it either.

    Shortly after he declared for the draft, all of the photos that had been out there on the Internet disappeared.

    He was projected as a first-round guy, but most of us thought the NFL's investigative people would find out about it and he'd fall a couple rounds.

    He ended up going in the first round, higher than most people thought he would.

    Was that because his agent got his discretions scrubbed off the Internet? I don't know...
     
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