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This clusterfuck...

The news here is claiming he only ever talked to her on the phone and he was duped by vicious people who conspired against him. I hope he doesn't get even MORE sympathy when its so clear he was in on it.

This is so bizarre and delicious.

Seth Meyers ‏@sethmeyers21

These Te'o jokes are all very funny but let's all try and remember that a person who never existed is dead.

Lol lbr this is ND getting ahead of the negative spin by tossing him under the bus. I mean I think damn well he knew and was in on it. The only question is at what point and why. He was a fool if he thought the school was going to have his back if this went negative.

lmfao mte

Covering their own asses b/c lbr this can be spun several ways, whatever the truth is.

This way, by defending him, if it turns out he was in on it they end up looking like the victims.

like laurie says but also it's a strategic move. He was basically the face of the program if they could have kept the victim narrative they aren't going to throw him under the bus. They're going to save face because they were involved in pushing this story to the media, his coach gave him a game ball for her. They look just as foolish. Unless the victim narrative works then everyone is safe. Also unless he's already signed with outside PR (Which since the actual winner of Heisman this year has his PR handled by the school still), the school is also handling this kid's PR. which means he probably trusted them when they said release the I'm a victim and so embarrassed statement. Full well knowing they also have another plan which is to let it play like this. If anyone thinks any ND player talked to the media without the school knowing..that's crazy. He may be "anonymous" but the school knows exactly who talked and was ok with it.

way to keep your name in the press before the draft. should have held out a little longer though.

this is insanity. if he was going for sympathy in the media, why invent and then kill off your girlfriend? why not milk your grandmother's death since she actually existed? i understand that's disgusting but lbr i doubt this guy is a shining beacon of morality anyway...

notre dame is shady as fuck when it comes to football, how many things have they tried to cover up? the two rapes, the poor kid who had the tower fall on him, now claiming te'o is an innocent bystander? like come on.

Seriously though I have no idea what this scandal is.

Not hot.

I'm really trying to understand how he thought this shit was going to end. I mean he had to have known somebody in the media was gonna look into his girlfriend's life/family/accident/cancer.......

Pretty Little Liars should hire him as a writer, tbh.

okay. this just sounds so...

"Q. How hard was it being focused on football but knowing that there is a bigger picture

Manti Te'o: Yeah, it was definitely hard. That has to be the hardest thing that I've had to do so far; to be able to operate, and to be able to try to continue with my daily routine, but knowing that I just lost two women that I truly loved. That was the hardest thing. And the other hardest thing was my girlfriend's service was the day of Michigan's game. And I remember when I found out I knew when they were going to close the casket and all that stuff, and it was during walk thru. And I remember I asked Coach Diaco, "Coach, what time is it?" And he said, "It's 12:01." And that would be 9:00, 9:01, California time and 9:00 is when they closed the casket for my girlfriend, so I had a moment then. But I've never felt so strong; especially strong, and I never I could never thank the student body and the fans around the world for their all love and all their prayers and support. I truly felt all of that and it's helped me to get through these past three weeks and I'm truly grateful and I'm truly humbled, and I said I can't thank them enough."

yep these kinds of interviews are just so ott and weird it's hard to believe in retrospect. there's something def off about this kid. and maybe that's why he was able to be catfished while being the ultimate bmoc at a football mad school? or maybe it's bc he's an attention whoring liar? idk...

I just don't get how someone could fake it like that though. That's one Oscar winning performance if it's fake. He should be acting instead of playing football lol

i think his friend and some girl really did catfish him at first but he totally blew it out of proportion. plus you don't date someone with cancer for months and not try to go see them. i think he had to have known before the season started that she was fake.

also, this girl's picture was on tons of national news shows and in a segment of pretty much every ND game. it's almost unbelievable to me that NO ONE would see the girl's picture that was being used and tell her much earlier in the season.

but the internet tho. logically, it would've gotten back to her SOMEHOW

I haven't heard about this, so i'm completely confused about what is going on.

but it seems like a clusterfuck.