OT: American College Football fans Manti Te'O scandal.

[stringertom]

Originally Posted by gavna

Well NFL Security is going to put Te'o through the ringer and at least the teams interested in drafting him will have the whole story.

As for the second part of your post - yeah it seems Notre Dame is more concerned with the death of a fake girl than the **** of a real one.

Notre Dame athletic department is skilled in teflonology...less than two years removed from the death of the videographer and absolutely nothing was said of that tragic lack of concern for safety during their run to the BCS title game.

[NickC]

Originally Posted by volleygirl

What are you gonna say if he isnt gay and your jumping to conclusions that he did all this because "some people are intolerant is truly and honestly disgusting" and thats what forced him to do it?

If he's not gay I'll stand corrected. Simple as that.

Originally Posted by stringertom

Notre Dame athletic department is skilled in teflonology...less than two years removed from the death of the videographer and absolutely nothing was said of that tragic lack of concern for safety during their run to the BCS title game.

Or lack of a safety during the BCS title game, Alabama's backfield absolutely killed Notre Dame's secondary.

[Amelie Mauresmo]

This story isn't strange at all anyone who is a gay man can of course understand the lengths one sometimes has to go to hide your homosexuality.

In the real world, plenty of gay men create a fake girlfriend so his coworkers will leave him alone. I can see a young gay college football player doing the same thing.

Even in Hollywood plenty of closeted gay male actors hire a female beard who is usually a close female friend who pretends to be his girlfriend so the media and public leave him alone about their homosexuality.

Tom Cruise, Bradley Cooper, plenty of men in Hollywood have fake wives and fake girlfriends too.

So many gay men hide their homosexuality because of homophobes. Imagine, being a young man dreaming of competing in the NFL but you are gay, the lockeroom environment is homophobic, and so is the college you are attending is also extremely homophobic and religious.

Te'o probably felt he had no choice but to create a fake girlfriend because he wanted people to leave him alone about his sexuality.

Sexuality and men's sports are often conflated although people pretend this isn't the case. Masculinity is also conflated as well. This guy is young, attractive, I find it hard to believe no women would not be interested in him.

This is why the gay closeted rumour is the only one which makes a lot of sense.

College football is notorious for the homophobia the straight men in sports are very anti gay and would give Manti Te'o a hard time if he did come out of the closet.

Plenty of gay men invent fake girlfriends so people can leave them alone. Seems like this guy created a fake girlfriend so he can concentrate on football and not have to discuss his homosexuality.

[atatu]

Pretty elaborate scheme if all he wanted to hide was being gay, I mean there are lots of nice Catholic girls at ND you could hang around with and not get sexual with if that's all you're worried about, it's got to be something more.

And now the latest is that this girl faked her death to get away from drug dealers, this just keeps getting weirder.

[r2473]

Originally Posted by atatu

Pretty elaborate scheme if all he wanted to hide was being gay, I mean there are lots of nice Catholic girls at ND you could hang around with and not get sexual with if that's all you're worried about, it's got to be something more.

Wait, what's this I hear about Catholic girls not having sex?

Originally Posted by atatu

this just keeps getting weirder.

Ya, no kidding

[Dedans Penthouse]

Originally Posted by stringertom

Notre Dame athletic department is skilled in teflonology...less than two years removed from the death of the videographer and absolutely nothing was said of that tragic lack of concern for safety during their run to the BCS title game.

So during this year's college football season, the media should've kept bringing up an accident (you're recklessly inplying an intentional death) from years back? Yeah, I get the almost irrationally psychotic ND hate whinning from you and others here, but this particular instance of irrelevent pot-stirring is totally out of place. As out of place as the idea of the media bringing up previous Alabama football-related scandals as well. You want to talk about this year? Guess what Chip Kelly just left behind at Oregon on his way to the Eagles HC job? An inpending NCAA investigation. "quack, quack"

This thread is about some metrosexual LB and an veritable AT&T blowup doll.

Oh and you purposely distorted the "less than two years removed" time frame. It is 2013. That accident occured in October, 2010 ftr.


on-topic:
And now it's being reported that the girlfriend and the grandmother had a sexual relationship with each other. This story's getting weirder by the minute.

[r2473]

Originally Posted by Dedans Penthouse

You want to talk about this year? Guess what Chip Kelly just left behind at Oregon on his way to the Eagles HC job? An inpending NCAA investigation. "quack, quack"

I imagine Chip and Pete Carroll will have lots to talk about.

[vandre]

Originally Posted by Fee

If helping coverup a double murder doesn't hurt your NFL career, you really think a fake girlfriend story hurts Teo's chance to play?
https://twitter.com/PeterBurnsRadio/...86344642682881


What we learned today? Notre Dame will hire Private Investigators for Catfish stories, but not sexual assault cases.
https://twitter.com/PeterBurnsRadio/...21769402916864

Peter Burns said it better than I could. I think Te'o was in on it, for whatever reason. People lie, that's just a fact of life, even people that you would think have no reason to lie.

this. absolutely this!

i heard on sports radio that he did make a public statement about it but he had legal counsel there while he did. if you didn't have anything to do with it, why show up with a lawyer?

[Fee]

Originally Posted by vandre

this. absolutely this!

i heard on sports radio that he did make a public statement about it but he had legal counsel there while he did. if you didn't have anything to do with it, why show up with a lawyer?

He did a two hour off camera interview with Jeremy Schaap of ESPN late on Friday, two days after the story broke. Seems like a long time to get your story straight to me. I still think he was in on it, something still isn't sitting right about this story, even if Ron(long name I can't remember) has done this before and claimed it was all his doing. Who calls someone their girlfriend when they still haven't met after 6 months? 12 months? Two years? Who claims to have skyped with someone in a 'black box' and doesn't get suspicious that he never gets to meet her in person or see her face? For almost 3 years? Naaaaah.

[Amelie Mauresmo]

I also read that Manti lied to his father about meeting the fake girlfriend. I doubt Te'o is going to come out of the closet though since he's from such a religious family. Sad the lengths a gay man would go to just to hide his homosexuality from his family and friends.