SmootSmack
01-16-2013, 11:45 PM
While I was reading the deadspin story, that's the assumption I got. I can't see any other explanation for it... being embarrassed about an online relationship doesn't lead to a magnitude of this cover-up. He's Mormon and an athlete in an alpha male environment- two reasons why he may have felt compelled to have a virtual "beard" so to speak.
That or he's just mentally ill.
A Mormon football player at Notre Dame
itvnetop
01-17-2013, 12:01 AM
A Mormon football player at Notre Dame
The triple whammy.
CultBrennan59
01-17-2013, 12:05 AM
I never understood that. Not just a mormon football player, but a guy from nice tropical Hawaii who had offers to go to ANY SCHOOL in the country, and he turns down BYU, USC, Florida, Bama, UCLA, Texas and so on for Notre Dame who wasn't a winning team at all, where its bad weather and bad football. I mean yeah I know the whole ''Notre Dame is a historic school and used to be a power house'' but c'mon they were awful and there was no way he knew they would eventually be National Title contenders, just doesn't make sense to me.
Then again he could be gay after seeing what he wore at the Heismann ceremony...
http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/002/834/955/hi-res-158012511_display_image.jpg?1355853620
...(I kid, I kid I know its a lei)
A couple of funny things I saw on Twitter today:
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.
Lou Holtz @PretendLouHoltz
I could seesh Marth May making up a prethend girlfriendsh buth noth you Manthi!
--This just in now an NFL player says that she is a real person--this story keeps getting weirder and weirder
FRPLG
01-17-2013, 12:17 AM
This is the craziest sh** ever in the sports world. God people are weird.
skinsfaninok
01-17-2013, 12:29 AM
So did he make the story up or what??
punch it in
01-17-2013, 12:35 AM
So did he make the story up or what??
No. He fell for some girl online that he never met. I mean I know he is just a kid, but you have to be pretty naive or crazy to be talking about your "girlfriend" on TV and you never even met her? I firmly believe he thought she was real. Either way it is one of the most ****ed up unbelievable stories i have ever heard. Oh, and you should watch catfish on mtv - its about online relationships. Hysterical.
Edit: wow - it was already the all time headscratcher after i saw the segment on espn about it. Now after reading the link SS posted im ****ing confused as all hell.
The man needs to hold a press conference and tell the whole true story - gay - fake - live - dead - whatever.....
los panda
01-17-2013, 12:41 AM
Maybe LaVar is gay and that's how he sniffed him out.lol
BigHairedAristocrat
01-17-2013, 12:44 AM
No. He fell for some girl online that he never met. I mean I know he is just a kid, but you have to be pretty naive or crazy to be talking about your "girlfriend" on TV and you never even met her? I firmly believe he thought she was real. Either way it is one of the most ****ed up unbelievable stories i have ever heard. Oh, and you should watch catfish on mtv - its about online relationships. Hysterical.
No. You obviously didn't read the article linked earlier on the page. Many times, He claimed to have met her more than once and talked to her every night on the phone. So if you firmly believe he thought she was real then you must also firmly believe he suffers from schizophrenia.
skinsfaninok
01-17-2013, 12:47 AM
No. You obviously didn't read the article linked earlier on the page.
I didn't go back and see it now I see
BigHairedAristocrat
01-17-2013, 12:51 AM
I didn't go back and see it now I see
I was actually replying to punch, who formed an opinion and went on a mini-rant when he obviously hadn't read the story to even understand the situation.
I'm just excited to have something to talk about other than a certain injury to our quarterback