https://twitter.com/jayRahz/status/276071308322820096
https://twitter.com/jayRahz/status/276073152432447488
https://twitter.com/jayRahz/status/276398202108932096

Te'o was supposedly contacted again by the dead girl on December 6th, but ppl seem to know about this thing already...

Nobody has offered him enough money I'm guessing.

Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, Alleged Mastermind Behind Manti Te'o Girlfriend Hoax, Auditioned for The Voice

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-...-voice-2013171

He had this insane sob story before [he sang]," an insider reveals to Us. "It would make for great TV."

According to the source, Tuiasosopo told producers he and his cousins started a Christian band together and were on their way to perform at a youth conference in Nevada when they got into a "massive" car accident. He claimed a truck crashed into their vehicle, sending them flip-flopping all over the freeway. He also said doctors thought one of them might have been brain-dead, but miraculously, everyone was fine.

any new developments today? I've been off the grid most of the day and I'm way behind

Some other lols as well but this was the GOAT.

hahahahah

Gay theories aside, he could just be an attention whore.

Here's a good article about these types of people. It's a long read, but it's an interesting look into the mindset of people who will basically do anything for attention, no matter how much they look like a sociopath:

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/t...t?oid=15337239

Alright with new developments this is where I'm at:

1. Ronaiah Tuiasosopo is behind the hoax, with malicious intent.
2. Manti Te'o is a combination of moran, attention whore, and super naive mormon (that is quite possibly gay) and he seriously exaggerated what was happening.
3. It was probably pretty well known towards the end of Lenney's "life" that she was likely not real, by many people intimate in Te'o's life (I am thinking players on his team).
4. The crux of what happened was a lie from Ronaiah Tuiasosopo pretending to be a girl interested in Manti Te'o was blown out of proportion by Manti Te'o, which was then blown out of proportion again by the MSM. In the end you have a series of not very believable lies that result in a grand story about the world's most Christian and perfect person.

in manti's head: I think I'll fake kill my fake girlfriend to get them to stop making fun of me. but i can't do it right away or else they'll make fun of me for that too.

Teo is both gay and saavy. story checks out.

Old Hoss Radbourn ‏@OldHossRadbourn

I wish the lass who gave me the French Pox had been imaginary.

grunching the next 1000 posts and im sure somebody already said it but being such a seinfeld nerd i cant help myself. George actually did do this in an episode...the man hands episode!

Minor league baseball team having a "Manti Te'o Girlfriend Bobblehead Night," complete with air guitar contest, imaginary food fight, and make pretend kiss cam.

http://www.florencefreedom.com/newsnotes.php?nID=370

thats awesome

My brain still refuses to believe that it's possible for a human to be this stupid

4 people on all of Twiiter probably got that Smiths reference.

It's Canadian sports media, so a bit different audience.

The first time I heard of this kind of scam was 8 years ago where the victim had sent his online love $30,000 for her surgery.

I think it's pretty easy to explain how he lied so often and so convincingly about this for so long. Whenever he had to elaborate on his relationship with his "gf," in his mind, he just conjures up the thoughts/feelings/events that involved his gay lover. when he's saying she's "so inspirational" or she "plays music" or she was "in an accident," he's just thinking of tuiasosopo (or someone else, perhaps) i mean every time someone expects to encounter "Lennay Kekua" in real life, up pops this tuiasosopo guy in her place, explaining that for whatever reason, she couldn't make it, but here i am in her place.

I think by far the most plausible motive for all this is that they initially concocted this fake gf for te'o to have some kind of beard, which was not that big a deal the first few years of his career since notre dame hadn't done sh*t in decades, but once he started to acquire some real notoriety at the beginning of the season, they decided it wouldn't be very convenient to have a non-existant gf hanging around as it becomes obvious that he's going to receive much more public scrutiny the better he plays. and that's where the wheels really came off the cart, since they decided to kill her in order to make her go away. like a lot of people said, why didn't he just say his gf broke up with him? well....i just think he was so buried in lies at that point, that he wasn't exactly thinking clearly or rationally about how out of control sh*t might get once he decides to say she's dead. i think he probably figured it would go away quietly after a bit. once it doesn't, hell he's gotta eat the whole sandwich at that point and go all in with the dead gf angle and hope to god its not exposed as a fraud, right?

the idea that we're supposed to buy that this was some kind of months or years-long "catfishing" thing that he wasn't extensively involved with from the beginning? come on.

over/under on when he comes out or is pushed out? 1 week? 2? 4?

he could also make the argument that mourning the death of his grandma caused him to act irrationally and he couldn't take it back the next day.

I'm not really buying the gay angle. Were there rumors about him before this broke?

Mormons, sure, but I'm pretty sure O'Reilly is Irish Catholic

Clearly this whole affair now needs to be referred to as the "Manti Te'o Ho-ax"