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

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How the frick. I mean damn. How do people formulate plans like this?

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they don't. it could have been orchestrated by Tuiasosopo and spun out of control when he tried to cut and run.

it's too convoluted for T'eo to just make up IMO

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Original Article on Fake GF

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Lennay Kekua was a Stanford student and Cardinal football fan when the two exchanged glances, handshakes and phone numbers that fateful weekend three seasons ago. She was gifted in music, multi-lingual, had dreams grounded in reality and the talent to catch up to them. The plan was for Kekua to spend extensive time with the whole Te'o family when upwards of 40 of them came to South Bend in mid-November for ND's Senior Day date with Wake Forest. "They started out as just friends," Brian Te'o said. "Every once in a while, she would travel to Hawaii, and that happened to be the time Manti was home, so he would meet with her there. But within the last year, they became a couple. "And we came to the realization that she could be our daughter-in-law. Sadly, it won't happen now." About the time Kekua and Manti became a couple, she was injured in an auto accident. There were complications during her recovery. And it was also during her recovery that it was discovered Kekua had leukemia. "That was just in June," Brian Te'o said. "I remember Manti telling me later she was going to have a bone marrow transplant and, sure enough, that's exactly what happened. From all I knew, she was doing really, really well." Kekua, who eventually graduated from Stanford, was, in fact, doing so well that she was released from the hospital on Sept. 10. And Brian Te'o was among those congratulating her via telephone. Less than 48 hours later, at 4 a.m. Hawaii time, Kekua sent a text to Brian and Ottilia, expressing her condolences over the passing of Ottilia's mom, Annette Santiago, just hours before.

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wtf

i feel bad for how entranced i am by this but it's like a car wreck where cars just wont stop crashing into the pile

oh and

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Chuck Oliver ?@kingcfb
With Te'o a Mormon, are there a lot of other dead girlfriends, too?

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Teo reading a fortune cookie!

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. The hoax angle still makes a lot of sense at this point.

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so about 5 people got together to troll te'o, and he is so stupid to believe that 1 picture was enough to show she was real?

maybe in 1998

MAYBE in 2003 for a really sheltered person

but he said he talked to her FAMILY

he was told she DIED. he never looked into it? got an obituary? met her friends?

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any chance Te'o commits suicide over this?

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Given what we know, isn't it more likely he would fake his own death? Send white roses, you guys!

After reading everything, no fricking way was this a troll job.

It's more likely that he goes into a media blackout and does nothing but prepare for the draft.