Manti Te'o's fake dead girlfriend

[MGH]

profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/23/teo-produces-spreadsheet-of-cell-phone-records/

And this is EXACTLY what I'm talking about. Te'o just won't give up his phone records. Instead his "group" produced spreadsheets allegedly based on raw data.

Again, this isn't difficult. Show the phone records and you're totally in the clear as far as being suspected as a part of this. But yet again, they won't, and it just makes Te'o look worse every time he and his group of handlers try to restrict people getting to the facts of this.

[BRV]

Whether it's the ESPN interview, the Katie Couric interview or the phone spreadsheet, nothing has changed my opinion one iota that Manti Te'o was in on this from day one.

[CATCH_US IS the Conversation]

Jan 20, 2013 16:57:25 GMT -5 Shy Guy said:

If I put a cucumber there, will it turn into a pickle?

[Allie Kitsune]

Was there ever a point to any of this?

[Deleted]

T'eo is only trying to salvage his draft position at this point. Considering that Bama made him look like he belonged on the JV he needs all of the help that he can get.

[King Ghidorah]

So yea, he was talking to a dude the whole time.
www.nydailynews.com/sports/college/hear-te-hoax-perpetrator-impersonated-female-voice-phone-article-1.1246480

The bizarre Manti Te’o fake girlfriend frenzy reached a new low — with a high-pitched confession.

Hoax mastermind Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, posing as the mysterious Lennay Kekua, was the falsetto voice on the other end of the all-night phone calls with the Notre Dame star, the scammer’s lawyer said.

The Heisman Trophy finalist “thought it was a female he was talking with,” lawyer Milton Grimes acknowledged to the Daily News. “It was Ronaiah as Lennay.”

The soul-baring chats between the star linebacker and the man posing as his phantom girlfriend were the linchpin of their fake fairy-tale romance. But Te’o apparently never realized it was Tuiasosopo disguising his voice to assume the persona of stunning, sassy Stanford coed Kekua.

This wasn’t a prank to make fun,” Grimes told The News. “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 declined to answer when asked to elaborate on his client’s intentions or what type of relationship he wanted with the college football star: “I wouldn’t describe his issues at this time.”

Te’o, in an interview with Katie Couric, said he painted himself into a corner with all the attention surrounding his relationship and Kekua’s “death” on Sept. 12.

The moving tale of the girlfriend’s battle with leukemia became a touchstone of the Fighting Irish season, particularly after Te’o announced that she passed away on the same day as his beloved grandmother.

Te’o denied any role in the hoax, but admitted perpetuating the story even after a Dec. 6 phone call from “Lennay” insisting she faked her death to dodge drug dealers.

The voice on the other end of that incredible phone call belonged to Tuiasosopo, according to Grimes.

“Katie, put yourself in my situation,” Te’o said in the interview that airs in full Thursday. “This girl, who I committed myself to, died on Sept. 12. Now I get a phone call on Dec. 5, saying that she’s alive and then I’m going to be put on national TV two days later.”

Grimes said the delay in his client’s making a public statement is tied to a California law that went into effect Jan. 1 — making it a crime to create a false identity online.

Tuiasosopo is seeing a mental health professional and wants to tell his side of the story, the lawyer said.

Grimes did insist that the timing of Kekua’s tragic “demise,” within hours of the grandmother’s death, was just a strange coincidence.

And he was adamant his client is a good guy who simply made a mistake.

“He’s torn by this,” Grimes said. “He didn’t mean for anyone to be hurt. Anything that he has done, he has apologized to those he could apologize to.”

[domrep]

Only explanation after reading that is that Te'o is gay. That's the only thing that could explain all of this.

[Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!!]

Jan 24, 2013 9:04:19 GMT -5 domrep said:

Only explanation after reading that is that Te'o is gay. That's the only thing that could explain all of this.

that, or he's a liar (IMO the most likely option) or he's the dumbest man in sports.

[Urethra Franklin]

Um, Ronaiah Tuiasasopo doesn't exactly sound like a woman...

[Kevin Hamilton]

Tuaisopo is taking the fall for the thing. Probably gettin a check post NFL draft.

[MGH]

.....yeah, if you still buy Te'o in this at all I also have a bridge to sell you.

[Deleted]

Jan 24, 2013 10:24:47 GMT -5 MGH said:

.....yeah, if you still buy Te'o in this at all I also have a bridge to sell you.

Where is it and how much?!


I think this whole thing was a stunt by a guy who, by virtue of the school he was attending, was terrified of having to come out of the closet and used this so he could cover, and then used the "death" aspect so that he could be a noncomitant bachelor afterwards.

[Red Impact]

Jan 24, 2013 9:25:49 GMT -5 Urethra Franklin said:

Um, Ronaiah Tuiasasopo doesn't exactly sound like a woman...

Every time something comes out that makes me think Te'o might be on the level, something else comes out that takes that right away. I can't imagine anyone thinking this sounds like a girl.

[Push R Truth]

Hey Ronaiah

What?

Take the fall.

Why?

*flashes a big number*

It was me all along Austin!!

Everybody Else: Awwww son of a bitch!

[Rican]

LOL LOL LOL.

[The Legend of Groose]

[Jedi-El of Tomorrow]

Jan 24, 2013 12:34:20 GMT -5 The Legend of Groose said:

Charlie Weis?

[Seth Drakin of Monster Crap]

Jan 24, 2013 10:24:47 GMT -5 MGH said:

.....yeah, if you still buy Te'o in this at all I also have a bridge to sell you.

Want a smoke? All the kids are doing it?

Guess no one has ever heard of machines that can change your voice.

[darbus alan]

Jan 24, 2013 12:34:20 GMT -5 The Legend of Groose said:

So this is how far Te'o has fallen. Even Cleveland is making fun of him.

[Rican]

deadspin.com/5978713/?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

Yeah, that's not a dudes voice.