What if Teo never had a girlfriend and wanted one all his life and his grandma wanted to see him happy so she made one up and kept in touch with him as her, but once she was a few hours from dying the charade couldn't keep going so she had to kill her off too?
What if Teo never had a girlfriend and wanted one all his life and his grandma wanted to see him happy so she made one up and kept in touch with him as her, but once she was a few hours from dying the charade couldn't keep going so she had to kill her off too?
What's even more amazing is that this girl was supposedly a Stanford student, we played Stanford later in the season, and no one tried to put together a human interest story for the game and put two and two together. This whole thing is just unreal
Tom Rinaldi overheard saying "aww shucks" as he swigs some yahoo and hugs a teddy bear.
Te’o says he found out Dec. 26, but on Jan. 3, he did nothing to debunk a question about “her” death.
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Question: Manti, how have the football-related commotion and excitement of the past year helped you get through the turmoil you've faced with your grandmother and girlfriend? MANTI TE'O: I think whenever you're in football, it takes your mind off a lot of things. You know, this team is very special to me, and the guys on it have always been there for me, through the good times and the bad times. Coach is always calling me asking me, "Are you okay? Do you need anything?" I'm rarely by myself, and that's how I like it. I'm always around my guys, always around my family.
"This is incredibly embarrassing to talk about, but over an extended period of time, I developed an emotional relationship with a woman I met online. We maintained what I thought to be an authentic relationship by communicating frequently online and on the phone, and I grew to care deeply about her.
"To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating.
"It further pains me that the grief I felt and the sympathies expressed to me at the time of my grandmother's death in September were in any way deepened by what I believed to be another significant loss in my life.
"I am enormously grateful for the support of my family, friends and Notre Dame fans throughout this year. To think that I shared with them my happiness about my relationship and details that I thought to be true about her just makes me sick. I hope that people can understand how trying and confusing this whole experience has been.
"In retrospect, I obviously should have been much more cautious. If anything good comes of this, I hope it is that others will be far more guarded when they engage with people online than I was.
"Fortunately, I have many wonderful things in my life, and I'm looking forward to putting this painful experience behind me as I focus on preparing for the NFL Draft."