Why did Mante Teo lie

[wiffleball 4,660]

All's I can figure is he's ghey and tried to use this to cover it up. Then again, this is like the most bizarre story coming from football in a long time.

 

What's the poop?

[IGotWorms 3,385]

At first I thought he was in on it the whole time, but now I tend to believe his story. Why did he lie after he should have known it was a hoax? Probably out of shame, I guess. He didn't want to tell the whole world he had gotten punked really bad. Or maybe he had become accustomed to the fame that went with the story and didn't want that to end, so he decided to perpetuate the lie. It was probably a mix of both, really.

[edjr 5,625]

The reason he spent 500 hours on the phone with Tuey, is because he's a f@g.

 

He's paying off Tuey to lie and say he was pretending to be a girl.

 

Tuey's blackmail is going to pay off soon.

[Mungwater 588]

He is mormon, everyone I've ever met that was Mormon was extremely gullible. I'm starting to believe the guy

[edjr 5,625]

He is mormon, everyone I've ever met that was Mormon was extremely gullible. I'm starting to believe the guy

 

Anyone that is religious is gullible. They believe in a fairytale that is an invisible man in the sky. Doesn't get anymore gullible than that.

 

HTH

[Lackman 0]

Why did Newbie lie about his happy married life for a year after he got kicked to the curb by his wife? It happens.

[MedStudent 56]

Anyone that is religious is gullible. They believe in a fairytale that is an invisible man in the sky. Doesn't get anymore gullible than that.

 

HTH

 

Bingo, the fact that he is religious makes me think he is naive enough to be telling the truth about not knowing the chick was made up.

[edjr 5,625]

Why did Newbie lie about his happy married life for a year after he got kicked to the curb by his wife? It happens.

 

He was hanging on to hope

[TimmySmith 2,782]

I think we could learn a lot about Teo from watching "Forrest Gump".

[edjr 5,625]

I think we could learn a lot about Teo from watching "Forrest Gump".

 

Forrest Gump was religious too.

[TimmySmith 2,782]

Forrest Gump was religious too.

And a football star. Jenny was real, I think, but she did die.

[kilroy69 1,017]

After reading as much as I could on the story. I think he is gay. There has never been an out div1a football player or pro so he has a reason as to why he would keep that a secret with a fake gf. No rumors going around because he had a real gf and she died and he is just trying to put his life back together from that horrible thing. That could have bought him years of good will and the press off his back as to why he didn't have a gf.

[Lackman 0]

After reading as much as I could on the story. I think he is gay. There has never been an out div1a football player or pro so he has a reason as to why he would keep that a secret with a fake gf. No rumors going around because he had a real gf and she died and he is just trying to put his life back together from that horrible thing. That could have bought him years of good will and the press off his back as to why he didn't have a gf.

 

A Mormon, going to extreme Catholic University, coming out gay? Sheesh. That kid would be thrown out of school, thrown out of his church, and thrown out of his family. He'd be a bigger pariah than a kid touching priest.

[dain11279 930]

Jenny was real, I think, but she did die.

 

She was also a slvt

[kilroy69 1,017]

A Mormon, going to extreme Catholic University, coming out gay? Sheesh. That kid would be thrown out of school, thrown out of his church, and thrown out of his family. He'd be a bigger pariah than a kid touching priest.

And Samoan. A pretty macho culture that would probably not be as willing to accept a gay family member. Which would be a very very good reason for him to keep something like that a secret with a fake gf. I am not the first to mention this obviously however like I said it just seems to fit.

[Lackman 0]

And Samoan. A pretty macho culture that would probably not be as willing to accept a gay family member. Which would be a very very good reason for him to keep something like that a secret with a fake gf. I am not the first to mention this obviously however like I said it just seems to fit.

 

It's possible.

 

But wouldn't it be much easier to simply say that you don't have time to date because of studying and playing football instead of making someone up with the possibility of getting caught in a lie?

[kilroy69 1,017]

It's possible.

 

But wouldn't it be much easier to simply say that you don't have time to date because of studying and playing football instead of making someone up with the possibility of getting caught in a lie?

To a young kid that may actually BE gay? The rumors may not be something he could deal with. I am not saying he IS for sure. I don't know the kid. However if I were in the closet and were trying to hide from all that he would be.....I would lie like a motherfocker and make up girlfriends too.

[MedStudent 56]

As more of this story leaks out the more focked the guy who pulled the prank sounds. Turns out he didn't have a woman making the phone calls but was doing them himself.

 

 

From espn:

 

 

 

 

The woman whose picture was used to create Manti Te'o's fake girlfriend has been identified, but the

voice of the woman who had hours of late-night phone calls with the Notre Dame

star linebacker has remained silent. Turns out that's because it reportedly was

a man.

 

The lawyer for the man who has been identified as behind the hoax, Ronaiah

Tuiasosopo, told the New York Daily News that his client disguised his

voice and assumed the identity of Lennay Kekua to try to develop a relationship

with Te'o.

 

Milton Grimes said that Te'o "thought it was a female he was talking with. It

was Ronaiah as Lennay."

Grimes said that Tuiasosopo wasn't trying to hurt Te'o.

"This wasn't a prank to make fun," Grimes said, according to the newspaper.

"It was establishing a communication with someone. ... It was a person with a

troubled existence trying to reach out and communicate and have a

relationship."

Grimes wouldn't characterize the type of relationship Tuiasosopo wanted with

the Heisman Trophy runner-up.

"I wouldn't describe his issues at this time," he said to the Daily

News.

 

How could he get away with it, though? Tuiasosopo, 22, has had dramatic

training, plays in a Christian band and even auditioned last year for the

television show "The Voice."

 

 

Manti Te'o isn't the first to play this role. Frank Capra made a living

making movies about humble, modest men who hit hard times. Story

 

"Come on, Hollywood does it all the time," Grimes said of his client

pretending to be a woman. "People can do that."

 

The ruse apparently worked for many, many hours on the phone. A source close

to Te'o gave ESPN's Jeremy Schaap documents that the source says are Te'o's

AT&T phone records from May 11 to Sept. 12, the date that Kekua was supposed

to have died of leukemia. The logs are not originals, but spreadsheets sent via

emails, and could not be independently verified.

 

The records show that in that four-month span -- when Te'o has said he

believed Kekua to be in a Los Angeles hospital recovering from an accident and

being treated for cancer -- Te'o made and received more than 1,000 calls

totaling more than 500 hours in length from the same number in the 661 area

code. The 661 area code covers Lancaster, Calif., which is part of Los Angeles

County. The source told Schaap that Te'o believed the 661 phone number in

question was Kekua's.

 

 

Of these calls, 110 were more than 60 minutes in length, including several

that were several hundred minutes long. In an ESPN interview Friday, and in

interviews with both ESPN and Sports Illustrated last fall, Te'o said he was on

the phone "every single night" with a person he believed to be Kekua, often for

long stretches late at night.

 

On Friday, he said to Schaap, "I'd be on the phone. And she had complications

from the accident and, she said the only thing that could help her sleep was if

I was on the phone. So I would be on the phone, and I'd have the phone on the

whole night."

 

From the records, it does not appear that Te'o was on the phone every single

night for the entire night, but the volume of calls and their duration is

sizable.

 

Meanwhile, the woman whose photo was used as the "face" of the

Twitter account of Te'o's supposed girlfriend made an appearance Wednesday,

saying the man allegedly behind the hoax confessed and apologized to her.

 

Diane O'Meara told NBC's "Today" show that Tuiasosopo used pictures of her

without her knowledge in creating Kekua.

O'Meara also said that she had been

asked to send pictures of her showing support for Tuiasosopo's cousin, whom he

said had been injured in a car crash, by holding up a sign saying "MSMK." Asked

why she would send the photo, she said, "We're raised to be polite," and added

that she almost would have felt guilty if she hadn't sent it.

 

The original Deadspin.com story on the hoax reported a similar scenario and

posted similar photos, although O'Meara was not identified by name at that time.

The site reported that the "MSMK" photo was briefly used as a Twitter avatar and

background for a Kekua account.

 

But that is not the only way it appears to have been used. In Te'o's

interview with Schaap on Friday night, Te'o said he explicitly requested such a

photo of Kekua after she re-emerged Dec. 6. He asked that the photo have her

initials (Lennay is a nickname) held up to the camera to prove to him she was

who she said she was.

 

"So I told her, 'OK, take another picture. And this time I want you to hold a

paper up with your initials, MSMK, which is her initials, the date and you

throwing up the sign,'" Te'o said during the two-and-a-half-hour interview.

 

It is unclear whether it is actually O'Meara holding the sign with the date

Dec. 21 in the photo or whether the image was Photoshopped.

 

O'Meara also said she doesn't know whether Te'o was involved, but "If Manti

is truly innocent, I empathize with him."

 

[TimmySmith 2,782]

As more of this story leaks out the more focked the guy who pulled the prank sounds. Turns out he didn't have a woman making the phone calls but was doing them himself.

So Tui..... is definitely gay.

 

I wonder if phone sex was involved?

[jerryskids 5,295]

As more of this story leaks out the more focked the guy who pulled the prank sounds. Turns out he didn't have a woman making the phone calls but was doing them himself.

 

 

From espn:

 

 

 

 

How could he get away with it, though? Tuiasosopo, 22, has had dramatic

training, plays in a Christian band and even auditioned last year for the

television show "The Voice."

 

 

Manti Te'o isn't the first to play this role. Frank Capra made a living

making movies about humble, modest men who hit hard times. Story

 

"Come on, Hollywood does it all the time," Grimes said of his client

pretending to be a woman. "People can do that."

 

Mmm hmm... that's one explanation. Not really plausible though. I mean cmon, you play a prank for a couple of minutes, maybe hours. You don't spend thousands of hours on the phone with someone you know to play a "prank."

 

The more likely explanation is that Teo and Tui were lovers. The above crap story is an attempt to explain the phone records.

 

Anyone ever read or seen Simple Plan? Great book. A group of folks find some money in a plane crash and decide to just sit on it for a while, but one thing leads to another and it turns out very bad. This story reminds me of that book. It is not going to end well.

[Mike Honcho 4,089]

So Tui..... is definitely gay.

 

I wonder if phone sex was involved?

 

 

Partner6: So you're really a 18 yr old girl right?

J-Dogg: Yeah, J for Julie.

Partner6: So whats with the "Dogg"

J-Dogg: Uh, It's cause I'm into the latina gangs and ######. You know, rollin with tha homies and ######.

Partner6: Oh, uh ok thats cool. So you ever seen a gun?

J-Dogg: Yeah like I got 6 guns.

Partner6: Thats cool, so you wanna see my gun?

J-Dogg: hehe, of course baby.

Partner6: I pull off my pants and show you my "gun".

J-Dogg: Ohh, it's so big.

Partner6: Yeah, what you want to do?

J-Dogg: Umm, i guess stroke it or something.

Partner6: It likes that.

J-Dogg: aight.

Partner6: Keep talking to me baby...

J-Dogg: I kiss you on the mouth, hard, but then gently.

Partner6: Mmmm, daddy like.

J-Dogg: I unzip my pants...

Partner6: Yes, show me what you got.

J-Dogg: I pull out my schlong, and rub it on your breasts...

Partner6: WTF?!

J-Dogg: Oh s**t, I meant, your schlong! your schlong!

Partner6: I've had it with you queers trying to cyber me, I only f**k women...

J-Dogg: S**it just don't shoot me man, I wasn't serious about the guns I have, I'm unarmed!

Partner6: You dips**t.

J-Dogg: I whimper to myself...

J-Dogg: please don't shoot me Mr.

[edjr 5,625]

So Tui..... is definitely gay.

 

I wonder if phone sex was involved?

 

I petition FFT to never use the term Phoe Sex again and call it Phone Sux.

[edjr 5,625]

Partner6: So you're really a 18 yr old girl right?

J-Dogg: Yeah, J for Julie.

Partner6: So whats with the "Dogg"

J-Dogg: Uh, It's cause I'm into the latina gangs and ######. You know, rollin with tha homies and ######.

Partner6: Oh, uh ok thats cool. So you ever seen a gun?

J-Dogg: Yeah like I got 6 guns.

Partner6: Thats cool, so you wanna see my gun?

J-Dogg: hehe, of course baby.

Partner6: I pull off my pants and show you my "gun".

J-Dogg: Ohh, it's so big.

Partner6: Yeah, what you want to do?

J-Dogg: Umm, i guess stroke it or something.

Partner6: It likes that.

J-Dogg: aight.

Partner6: Keep talking to me baby...

J-Dogg: I kiss you on the mouth, hard, but then gently.

Partner6: Mmmm, daddy like.

J-Dogg: I unzip my pants...

Partner6: Yes, show me what you got.

J-Dogg: I pull out my schlong, and rub it on your breasts...

Partner6: WTF?!

J-Dogg: Oh s**t, I meant, your schlong! your schlong!

Partner6: I've had it with you queers trying to cyber me, I only f**k women...

J-Dogg: S**it just don't shoot me man, I wasn't serious about the guns I have, I'm unarmed!

Partner6: You dips**t.

J-Dogg: I whimper to myself...

J-Dogg: please don't shoot me Mr.

 

even though these are as real as Lenay Kekua, they are still funny as hell.

[IGotWorms 3,385]

The reason he spent 500 hours on the phone with Tuey, is because he's a ######.

 

He's paying off Tuey to lie and say he was pretending to be a girl.

 

Tuey's blackmail is going to pay off soon.

 

Could be right about paying off Tuey. BUT, haven't a few other people indicated that they were hoaxed by "Lennay", even years before Te'o?

[MDC 5,934]

Because he's gay hth.

[edjr 5,625]

Could be right about paying off Tuey. BUT, haven't a few other people indicated that they were hoaxed by "Lennay", even years before Te'o?

 

They have, yes.

 

but there has to be an end game for this guy. Maybe he is doing it to get his rocks off? Whatever the reason, he's focked up.

[Lackman 0]

At this point Brent Musburger wishes the Alabama QB's girlfriend was also imaginary.

[GobbleDog 822]

I heard a soundbite from his interview this morning...

 

"Are you gay?"

"Nooooooooooo, far from it. Far from it. {nervous laughing}"

 

I don't know if the dude is gay or not, but that response sounded like an immature 11 y.o. kid. I think the he's just mentally retarded.

[Frozenbeernuts 1,652]

I heard a soundbite from his interview this morning...

 

"Are you gay?"

"Nooooooooooo, far from it. Far from it. {nervous laughing}"

 

I don't know if the dude is gay or not, but that response sounded like an immature 11 y.o. kid. I think the he's just mentally retarded.

It is a very unique situation that would make most of us act in a weird manner one way or the other, but even considering that I can only come to one conclusion, he is a pillow biting fahgot who would stretch his cheeks at the mere mention of cack.

 

Did anyone else hear the sound bites? How would you not be a little freaked out by the voice on the other end? He knew it wasn't really a chick. He has said that he didn't tell the truth so his parents wouldn't be disappointed in him, so I wonder how they are going to feel in 2 years when he comes out all the way.

[Frozenbeernuts 1,652]

They have, yes.

 

but there has to be an end game for this guy. Maybe he is doing it to get his rocks off? Whatever the reason, he's focked up.

There is no doubt that dude likes to be penetrated by the pork sword.

[frank 2,159]

To get to the other side?

 

 

Time to get a new fence?

 

 

Orange you glad I didn't say I'm a dude?