Manti Ruh R'oh - It turns out Tuiasosopo is GOAT voice actor. T'eo still a liar/exaggerator. - Page 91 - Sporting Events and Fantasy Sports

I still prefer Homer's original take:

"Oh Mindy,
You came and you gave without flaking,
But you gave me Ben-Gay, oh Andy,
You came and you stopped me from something..."

Lol, and I think you're right to. The "oh Andy" is GOAT.

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01-18-2013 , 06:05 PM

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Originally Posted by ZBTHorton

The whole 'exaggerating the relationship' thing just makes everything else make more sense.

Why didn't he figure out she was fake? Because they weren't as close as he described.
Why didn't they meet? Because they weren't really talking as much as he said
Why didn't he step in front of the media craziness when he could have? Because the relationship wasn't that BIGGEST DEAL EVER like he said it was and he probably never thought it would get this far.

Yeah, I don't understand. Like, how is he not talking to her a lot or trying to do vid chat or something? So he must be exaggerating the relationship otherwise that would be a ton of work and a lot of avoidance for the person responsible for this.

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01-18-2013 , 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Bigdaddydvo

Lol, and I think you're right to. The "oh Andy" is GOAT.

"It sounds like you're infatuated with a woman named Mindy. ...or a man named Andy."

I also love the fact that Homer is basically singing about stuff in his medicine cabinet.

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01-18-2013 , 06:18 PM

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Manti Te'o is probably a late 2nd round talent at best. He plays a high variance style lb that worked for his Int #'s in college. He was 57th in the country in total tackles per game!!!!! He honestly wouldn't be able to hold Luke Kuechley's jock strap and in no scenario should he be drafted around the same number as him.

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01-18-2013 , 06:19 PM

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Originally Posted by ZBTHorton

I'm not denying that he said things too.

What I'm saying is that I'm not sure he set out to do it. I think it's possible the media started running with this story and he was too embarrassed to admit he got duped by an online girlfriend and the story just kept growing and growing out of control as ND kept winning games and he kept playing well.

ZB - you're obviously a very smart guy, so don't take this the wrong way - but this is a sort of nonsensical stance to take, especially the bolded.

Even if he was fully duped during the SI interview back in September (totally possible of course) - T'eo agreed to a lengthy, on the record interview with a major publication on this specific topic, going on and on about this woman we now know he never even met IRL. He clearly has for some time now (duped, or not duped) set about leveraging this situation for positive press. Is that despicable/lolworthy considering the context? Maybe that's the ultimate question.

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If I hadn't read the SI interview, this would probably be my conclusion. But I have a really hard time with the "things just got out of hand" stance when the supposed circumstances of her life, accident, sickness and death were THAT detailed and THAT remarkable.

Think about what he said in that interview- those are not the actions of somebody trying to sweep something under the rug, and they don't seem to be the actions of somebody trying to embellish a semi-online girlfriend.

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01-18-2013 , 06:29 PM

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I dunno. Te'o can be a serviceable Will in a 3-4. Definitely a guy who can only look good with his teammates cutting off the flats though. Otherwise, RBs and slots are break his gambling ankles, forced to solo tackle and cover real NFL talent in bunches.

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01-18-2013 , 06:35 PM

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rageotones

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kind of bummed out today realizing that it's likely to be a while before we get the full story (if ever). of course, there will probably be come good stuff, but not getting nearly the christmas eve feel of the first day.

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01-18-2013 , 06:35 PM

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grunching but have we had any photoshops of Teo and Ronaiah in a white bronco yet?

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01-18-2013 , 06:40 PM

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I just watched ESPN's recent report on this and it just reeked of bull****. This whole recent spin on this story is complete bull****.

Also, why are people letting Notre Dame off the hook? As someone mentioned earlier they recently ran a charity event for this fake girl. NOTRE DAME KNEW THIS GIRL WAS FAKE AND LIED ABOUT IT TO THEIR ADVANTAGE, REPEATEDLY.

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01-18-2013 , 06:44 PM

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This just went to another level imo:

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Manti Te'o has told family and friends that the woman who was the voice of his fictitious girlfriend “Lennay Kekua” called him in December and said she had to fake her own death months earlier to elude drug dealers, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser has learned.

http://www.staradvertiser.com/sports...l?id=187505701

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01-18-2013 , 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Dudd

This just went to another level imo:

http://www.staradvertiser.com/sports...l?id=187505701

Story continues to deliver. I wonder if GullibleOAT Manti perpetuated the story after hearing this line.

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01-18-2013 , 06:47 PM

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YES, NEW LIFE!!!

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01-18-2013 , 06:50 PM

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If the latest stuff about Tuiasosopo having a female cousin play the part of the girl on the phone is true, then....wow. I have to think he made her believe that there was some kind of big payday at the end of the rainbow in order to get her to do this. Because if he didn't do that and somehow convinced her to do it for that long just...because, then she's just as outrageously stupid as Te'o or Tuiasosopo is a Jim Jones-level persuasive sociopath. And given the manner and detail with which Te'o spoke in regards to their phone conversations, it sure seems as though that they actually took place.

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01-18-2013 , 06:50 PM

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Larry Legend

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I did not see this turn coming.

"I am sorry I had to fake the death of Lennay, the girl I was pretending to be, who isn't actually real, I was on the run from drug dealers, it is really scary. Would you fall assleep with me on the phone tonight?"

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01-18-2013 , 06:53 PM

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The woman told the ESPN show “Outside the Lines” that Ronaiah Tuiasosopo of California cried when he admitted to her in December that he was involved in the scam. ESPN did not identify the woman at her request but described her as in her 20s and a church friend of Tuiasosopo.

"He (Ronaiah) told me Manti was not involved at all, he was a victim. The girlfriend was a lie; the accident was a lie; the leukemia was a lie," the woman told ESPN. "He was crying; he was literally crying. He's like 'I know, I know what I have to do.'"

Wait i don't understand this part. Someone clear up my confusion. I thought Tuiasosopo organized the hoax and got this girl to talk to Manti and stuff on the phone.

But she didn't know Tuiasosopo was involved?

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01-18-2013 , 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by brrrrr

Chick in the ESPN article is a "church friend" of Tiausposposp.

Chick who was Lennay's voice is some other chick.

You gotta give T'eo credit where credit is due tho - didn't fall for the "had to fake my own death to elude drug dealers" line!

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01-18-2013 , 06:58 PM

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lennay confirmed amichele15 itt

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01-18-2013 , 07:04 PM

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I see. I skimmed the paragraphs in the middle and didn't realize "the woman" was someone else

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01-18-2013 , 07:06 PM

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T'eo has gotta be the GOAT pretend playa

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01-18-2013 , 07:07 PM

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This just went to another level imo:

http://www.staradvertiser.com/sports...l?id=187505701

bahahaha

just when the story is stale and solved, something like this comes out

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01-18-2013 , 07:13 PM

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at this point this theory is as good as any:

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Here's another theory that is totally plausible, and if it turns out to be true, I get full credit:

Lennay Kekua is real, and she's still alive! But she's a middle-boss type figure in a vast conspiracy that involves the Irish Mob, Samoan drug lords, the Church of Latter Day Saints and the CIA. This thing is huge.

It's all part of an extortion ring to elevate the public persona of Manti Te'o and put Notre Dame back at the top of the world of athletics. The above mentioned organizations were all involved in promoting Te'o and fixing many of Notre Dame's games. The LDS church also wanted to use Te'o's rising stardom to boost its own image and further its influence, which would have come to fruition had Mitt Romney won the presidency (more on that later). Lennay's family and the Tuiasasopo's have been involved in or indebted to Samoan mobs for years, and the Samoans have been trying to gain a foothold in the international drug trade. The Samoans finally struck a deal with the Irish Mob, based on the east coast, to work the drug trade together and take over the American drug market using a two-front pincer movement. Of course the Irish Mob have been runing Notre Dame University for years, and as part of this new drug coalition, have been funneling in steroids to the university, and helping Somoan recruits (like Te'o) get in there.

Now, Te'o was coerced by both mobs to go to Notre Dame, as they recognized his star appeal, his intelligence, good looks, boy scout image, and athletic talent. What a perfect pawn! If this kid becomes a star, even a Heisman candidate, his notoriety could vastly increase the already notable wealth of Notre Dame University and both mobs. This is where Lennay comes in - she is real, but actually in her 30s, not early 20s (she just looks young) and is a major player in all of this. She was used to seduce Manti Te'o to further gain his cooperation in this whole scheme, and he fell for it. The Tuiasasopo's were coereced into being a part of it as well. However, as his senior year began, and all the drugs and resources pumped into Notre Dame by these mobs finally started to produce a contender, a compelling story using Te'o would all but guarantee a stranglehold over the drug market by the Samoans and the Irish. Te'o saw what was going on and became uncomfortable with it. He wanted out. So what did they do? They wacked his grandma and his girlfriend, and threatened even worse if he didn't comply. Once Te'o was a huge star and bringing in NFL contracts and endorsements, the true extortion would kick in.

Now the CIA was secretly backing Romney for president for their own twisted behind-the-scenes political agenda, and they had been secretly working with the LDS church to promote Romney. The CIA, no dummies, were aware of the activities of the Samoans and Irish but were waiting to see how it played out. The CIA figured they could stand to profit from the mob's activities but could take them down once they got too powerful. So they even helped nudge them along for the time being. At the same time, as Te'o's star-power started to become evident, the LDS wanted to promote him even further as well. A Mormon President and a Mormon Heisman Trophy winner with a heart-warming story? Mormon missionaries were drooling at the thought, and Mormon HQ in Salt Lake City was planning a full-scale campaign to take over American religioun beginning in 2013. So all of these groups were working together in earnest.

Teo's grandma really was killed, but Lennay, with whom Te'o was in love but didn't realize that she was involved in this whole operation, was kept alive. Te'o didn't know it - the mobs directed the whole story to further promote Te'o and Notre Dame. Along with the fixing of games, it was working perfectly. Shortly after the real death of grandma and fake death of Lennay, Romney dominated the first presidential debate, thanks to the CIA feeding him answers via remote. The plan continued, but when it turned out that Romney was going to lose the election after all, things started to unravel.

After the election, the LDS got cold feet. They were a little too entrenched with the whole plan. The church was not afraid of the mob, but was afraid of it's legacy and reputation should the public find out their involvement in this vast conspiracy. But they knew too much, so the charade couldn't continue. LDS pulled out, and the CIA began working with the mob to remove any records of Lennay's existence. This involved purging records, silencing witnesses, etc. Lennay and the Tuiasosopos were kept alive because they were still useful cogs in the Samoan mob's drug trafficking operations, and they were going to need all the help they could get now that the plan was falling apart. To top it off for the CIA, the mobs helped to create a scandal which led to David Petreus leaving the CIA. And with Petreus gone, so were all of the secrets of this nefarious plot. The woman with whom Petreus had the affair became involved with the Irish mob during her time at Harvard. The mob began working with her to seduce Petreus as soon as he took the head role at the CIA.

With the LDS and CIA out of the picture, the mobs tired to continue their operation and kept Te'o in the limelight as a desperate promotional tactic to further the drug operation. The story of Lennay continued to be a national sensation, even as her records were wiped clean. Lennay herself faded back behind the scenes. Without the safety net of the CIA's involvement, though, tensions rose between the Samoan and Irish mobs, and the partnership fell apart altogether. That's about the time that Te'o received a call from Lennay's number - the Tuiasasopos were trying to send him a message to protect him, but they couldn't really say anything without jeopardizing their own lives. Te'o won't come out with the truth now, for the same reasons - he looks like quite the fool, but to speak the truth would mean certain death for him and his family at the hands of the mob. Of course Notre Dame got rolled in the NCG because the mob was no longer fixing it. ESPN and other institutions of journalism never dug any deeper because their own ties to the mob prevented it. But Deadspin is not yet mob-controlled and broke the story wide open.

So Lennay is still alive and in hiding. Te'o was duped and was a pawn in this whole devious game all along. The Tuiasasopos aren't talking because of the Samoan mob. The CIA is now waging an underground war with the Samoans and Irish. And the only ones paying the price for all of this are Manti Te'o, his grandma, Mitt Romney, and David Petreus. Everyone else gets out with their hands clean.

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01-18-2013 , 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by nath

Oh Manti
You claimed a girlfriend without meeting
And you faked her death, oh Manti
You milked it for all the attention
And you say you were pranked, oh Manti

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01-18-2013 , 07:25 PM

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YES, NEW LIFE!!!

I'm so happy right now. This just perked up my entire day.

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01-18-2013 , 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by horrorshow83

Sorry for being unclear, so no one misunderstands what I said about the movie buzz possibly being planted. I'm saying that this buzz, were I somewhere involved in this at CAA, would be something I'd use as bait to get hush agreements signed with certain parties with scripts and coaching attached in exchange for agency referrals while the story is hot and this is something worth offering.

A Lifetime movie could be a long shot, but details to sell to Pete Thamel's publisher, producers at 60 Minutes or somewhere, etc. are possible. They will not be the height of these scammers' dreams, but something they can get. And, later this year or so, when they're disappointed by not getting some Hollywood producer to pay them hundreds of thousands, oops, there's a hush agreement with a seven-figure liability attached to it and no one really cares about the story anymore to make damning Te'o worth their while.
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Could? This story is already a Lifetime movie, it's just being played out on ESPN.

And there should be a Fearnet version where she calls Manti to inform him she is now a vampire.

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01-18-2013 , 07:35 PM

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I wouldn't be surprised if we learn more about Tuiasosopo trying to scam money through fake charities or directly from Te'o. Seems more like a scam than just a hoax to me, but who the f knows at this point.

Does that ever happen in these Catfish situations? Or is it always just a sex/fetish/excitement type thing?

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