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

LOL.

 

I wish Schaap asked him about the process of how they became a couple and what that actually meant.

 

I don't mean to harp on this, but I still think money changed hands. I know he didn't give her his bank account number, but the only logical motive for the ruse I can think of is he sent this girl money. And he does not want to admit that.

I mean, she asked for his bank account number, but never for a few bucks any other time?

Isn't that how most of these scams go?

 

I think that sometimes the perpetrator just wants to role play. Maybe they're not happy as the person they are, and this makes them feel (relatively) good about themselves.

 

If she was serious she would have asked for his bank routing # as well. You need both to transfer money.

 

Easy to look up. Most banks and credit unions have it posted on their website.

 

The first 20 SJ members to pm me their bank account numbers I will wire them $1000 no questions asked.

 

Maybe, sure.

But aren't there signs this dude used a real girl to talk to Te'o, plus maybe some others to further the scam?

And he tried to pass off the girl to another NFL player?

I don't know...even when this started, Te'o is not yet a big name but he's being duped by a guy whose family has been involved in big time college athletics. Maybe he felt there was a few bucks he could fleece ff this Notre Dame kid they all know.

And yeah, maybe there is no logic to this whole thing.

 

If you're tring to scam journalists out of money, wouldn't you have to assume they have money?

 

Wonder if Diane posed for a picture last month?

 

I'm guessing he's targeting a guy who's rich enough to live in a house covered by a HOA, but is still dumb as a rock.

 

Five quick things...

1. The more and more I step back and think about all this, it is beyond bizarre that we are spending this much time and energy parsing the garbled, messed up, ridiculous and overwrought love life of a 21-year-old kid. I get how we got here, and I was just as fascinated by the craziness of it all, but pause for a moment and think about it: We are demanding answers from a 21-year-old about a quasi-relationship he had because, well, the story made him a more interesting person during football season. Holy fuck. This would be the dumbest conversation ever if it were happening in bar. You'd laugh and sneer and then you'd roll your eyes and it would be just another night of "college drama."

2. If you voted for Manti Te'o for the Heisman because of his personal back story, because you thought it represented some clean moral good in a world of outlaws, you deserve what you're getting here. This is yet another example of how completely ridiculous it is that we're turning unpaid minor league football players into mega celebrities. 20-year-olds and 21-year-olds are frequently morons. I get why it became a big story, but it makes it no less ridiculous in retrospect. "Hey, 20-year-old kid who's probably banging a few ladies on the side, but can't stop pining for this one girl on the West Coast that he's idealized in his head, I hear you had your heartbroken, and I, brilliant sports writer, would like to ask how this has shaped you as you prepare for this week's game against Purdue."

3. Notre Dame might be the most full of shit place on earth. Now they're admitting in their "investigation" that the "investigator" never even talked to Te'o? Jack Swarbrick's tears taste like Teh Stupid. I'm fairly certain the school's default stance on anything is to lie first, then figure out how they'd like to proceed.

4. It's fascinating the way people project their own interpretations of jock life into this situation. He could have had soooo much pussy! He's the captain of Notre Dame, dude. Why would he need to invent a fake girlfriend? Let's say, just for a second, that he really did fall in love with this girl he only knew over phone and email. It's unrealistic and he had to be in on it because it doesn't fit your presumption of what kind of romantic life a college football star would lead? Let me break off some knowledge here for you from inside the machine: I was a bad college football player, but I played with some good ones. And at 21, some of them were just as clueless about love and just as naive and foolish as the dorkiest college newspaper assistant arts editor. Some of them were BMOC types. And some of them were socially awkward weirdos. I knew guys who were all-Americans who got drunk and cried over long-distance crushes from high school every other weekend. Your assumption of what Manti Te'o's life must have been like, even if he was raking it the ladies every weekend, clouds your judgement here or whether or not Te'o really COULD have been duped.

5. At this point, we're pounding blood from a stone. It no longer matters to me if he was a criminal mastermind, or a Hawaiian rube who has never touched a breast in his entire life. The story has become infantile. College sports is such a cesspool of phony morality and crooked amoral bullshit. And yet we obsess over the typical dramas of teenagers. We totally deserve this. In fact, I wish he had won the Heisman and was refusing to give it back, because the outrage would be so deliciously stupid. I feel so misled! Manti Te'o made me believe! He represents all that's good about collegiate athletics Puke. Go read a book.