re: Deadspin: Manti Te'o Dead Girlfriend Story a Hoax (now with drug dealers!)

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I mean could Notre Dame's performance really have gotten any worse even with this huge story going on?

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Thankfully they didn't, because we'd hear how ND could have won without the media swarm.

Dan Patrick also had a good laugh about how much ESPN is suffering to have to say "deadspin" constantly bc he said they had sent out corporate memos stating to never mention them on air

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. even if he's involved in the "hoax" he won't slip out of the first round...

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first round?

After the way he played against Bama?

That's the closest test to NFL talent he saw all year, and he was EMBARRASSED.

first round

Is this the longest thread in MSB history?

Clay Travis actually wrote a pretty good article on this last night.

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9. What's the motive to fake this relationship?

This is where I get hung up and the question I return to again and again. You're talking about hours and hours of effort to fake a relationship. What's the payoff? To humiliate someone? (And stop with your Catfish emails, I know all about the show). I just don't buy that there's someone who wants to sit on the phone for eight hours long night after night pretending to be near death with cancer so they can eventually say, "Gotcha!"

This is the biggest waste of time ever. Plus, it requires not only a fake girlfriend, but a fake brother. And maybe other fake family members too. What's the point of an entire conspiracy built around convincing Manti Te'o that his online girlfriend is real?

And that's what I can't get past, there just isn't a real motive to fake this relationship. There's no payoff, no pot of gold at the end of the long con.

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even if he's involved in the "hoax" he won't slip out of the first round.

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Uhhhh I think he slipped out the first round with the overrated season he's had, the terrible Bama game, and the fact he will be mediocre at the combine.

He had two things going for him and none of them had to do with his football abilities. He played for ND and his grandma and gf died within 2 hours of each other.

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Should have his voting privileges removed

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pretty sure Erin Andrews had a vote when she worked for ESPN. Not sure now.

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Clay Travis actually wrote a pretty good article on this last night.

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9. What's the motive to fake this relationship?

This is where I get hung up and the question I return to again and again. You're talking about hours and hours of effort to fake a relationship. What's the payoff? To humiliate someone? (And stop with your Catfish emails, I know all about the show). I just don't buy that there's someone who wants to sit on the phone for eight hours long night after night pretending to be near death with cancer so they can eventually say, "Gotcha!"

This is the biggest waste of time ever. Plus, it requires not only a fake girlfriend, but a fake brother. And maybe other fake family members too. What's the point of an entire conspiracy built around convincing Manti Te'o that his online girlfriend is real?

And that's what I can't get past, there just isn't a real motive to fake this relationship. There's no payoff, no pot of gold at the end of the long con.

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He was part of it.

There are only three motives:

-Cover up his homofricking love

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-Publicity

or

-He was duped at the very early beginning and was embarrassed and perpetuated the lie for multiple years after that.

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Clay Travis actually wrote a pretty good article on this last night.

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The ONLY thing I can think of is that they were going to try and extort money from himby keeping it quiet. But even that is far fetched.

His buddies trolled him, he found out and kept the lie up.

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He gets a pass in that game as he was mourning the loss of the story of the loss of his girlfriend.

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all the other players at the combine as going to rip on him so hard

no one in the locker room of the team he goes to will respect him.