Hmmm

[turok]

The big question that needs to be answered is....who is the girl he spoke with on the phone all of the time...everyday? If it was a girl and not Tui, why do it? If there is no money exchanging hands then what is the end game? Why would you commit that much time to something...for a prank? You're going to spend a few years of your life tricking a guy you have never met in person or don't intend to meet for what? This is just such a weird story.

I've said this before but there needs to be some serious studies done on some of these people on the internet. You go to message boards and you see people make multiple sign ins so they can agree with one another and make it seem like people support the same argument. You see it all the time on ESPN. Why? Why would you either think that A.) it's actually funny and B) why would you get off on doing that? i really think those are some truly disturbed and twisted people.

The cloak of perceived anonymity seems to cause many to act out online in many ways like they never or rarely would when in person, public and/or private amongst friends, relatives, strangers and/or acquaintances. Its not unlike role playing games and attempting to make oneself seem to appear superior and more witty and/or crafty online, even if they don't manage to convince or impress many if anyone else who is lurking or posting, and they often end up looking even more stupid than they really are when they get caught, owned or outed.

 

[cheeno]

Troll level: M. Bison.

 

[Mitchrapp]

True but the sterotype is that auto mechanics are crooks. Many people want to believe in love and relationships even though every single one of us has at least one failed one and I'm guessing most of us have at least several. Girls make you do stupid things. If you love, one chances are you are going to do borderline retarded things.

Now what happened to him would pretty much never happen to the majority of us. But clearly there is a segment of the population that falls for this "catfish" crap. Like you guys, I don't really get it either...but I'm a I need proof person and I would never be able to tolerate an online only relationship with a girl. Sex is a must. If I want to just talk to strangers all day I go to message boards to do it.

Girls you've actually seem make us do dumb things..

 

[tonyballs]

Still not buying it.

Just my opinion.

I'm not buying it either. This is one of the most fucked up stories i ever heard.

 

[boogerlovejoy]

I'm not buying it either. This is one of the most fucked up stories i ever heard.

It just reaks of a guy who was LOVING the attention he was getting, the sympathy, the Heisman hype, the interviews......all that.....and kept the lie going.

 

[cheeno]

http://espn.go.com/college-football...onaiah-tuiasosopo-was-voice-talking-manti-teo

Teo was talking to a man pretending to be a woman all those months.

 

[schles192]

Not a suprise, funny story cause its not me, but I feel bad for the guy. He is going to get shit the rest of his life for this.

 

[manchild98]

Not a suprise, funny story cause its not me, but I feel bad for the guy. He is going to get shit the rest of his life for this.

Yup. The countless phone records tell me that Te'o is just an incredible, naive dummy. He wasn't in on it. You don't spend hundreds and hundreds of hours talking to someone on the phone like that just in case your story gets leaked.

Although he's not the only one. Turns out the Redskins had to issue a warning to their players about an online "woman." Hopefully, he gets drafted by the Skins.

The memo went up on the wall of the Washington Redskins' locker room in the middle of December, a stern warning from Phillip Daniels, the team's director of player development, in the wake of an unsettling revelation.

His message did not waver: Stay away from @RedRidnH00d. Avoid her on Twitter. Avoid her on Instagram. Do not converse with this person on any social media platform. She is not who she claims to be.

"Once we found out the person wasn't real, we went from there," Daniels told NFL.com when contacted late last week about the situation.

Yes, at around the same time Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o claims he learned he was part of an Internet-related hoax, at least four Redskins players also became aware of their own role in a completely separate, coincidentally timed and ultimately less harmful saga of false online identities.

NFL.com has learned that NFL security conducted an investigation into a situation involving a woman, known by the pseudonym Sidney Ackerman, who used pictures of an Internet adult entertainer, C.J. Miles, to establish dialogues with pro athletes.

On multiple occasions, several Redskins players attempted to arrange meetings with "Ackerman," but none of them succeeded, Daniels said. The numerous failed attempts led to suspicion, and Daniels then received some independent information about the possibility that "Ackerman" indeed was a fake.

Last Friday, NFL.com discovered another unverified Twitter account, @RideAndDieChick, which also used a photo of Miles as its Twitter avatar. NFL.com was able to confirm that separate people run each of these accounts (@RideAndDieChick and @RedRidnH00d) independently of one another. Perhaps most unsettling about the latest account, which started operating within the past two months: As of Saturday afternoon, @RideAndDieChick was being followed by 22 verified NFL players and six verified NBA players. As of Tuesday, however, the account no longer was active.

During a dialogue with @RideAndDieChick through the direct message function Saturday, the person operating the account claimed to have had conversations with at least three notable professional football players. The identity of those players has been withheld because the conversations could not be independently verified.


http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap10...kins-duped-by-woman-with-fake-online-identity

 

[Mitchrapp]

He probably bribed this guy with a future payout. No one is this dumb, no one.

 

[cheeno]

Yup. The countless phone records tell me that Te'o is just an incredible, naive dummy. He wasn't in on it. You don't spend hundreds and hundreds of hours talking to someone on the phone like that just in case your story gets leaked.

Although he's not the only one. Turns out the Redskins had to issue a warning to their players about an online "woman." Hopefully, he gets drafted by the Skins.

The memo went up on the wall of the Washington Redskins' locker room in the middle of December, a stern warning from Phillip Daniels, the team's director of player development, in the wake of an unsettling revelation.

His message did not waver: Stay away from @RedRidnH00d. Avoid her on Twitter. Avoid her on Instagram. Do not converse with this person on any social media platform. She is not who she claims to be.

"Once we found out the person wasn't real, we went from there," Daniels told NFL.com when contacted late last week about the situation.

Yes, at around the same time Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o claims he learned he was part of an Internet-related hoax, at least four Redskins players also became aware of their own role in a completely separate, coincidentally timed and ultimately less harmful saga of false online identities.

NFL.com has learned that NFL security conducted an investigation into a situation involving a woman, known by the pseudonym Sidney Ackerman, who used pictures of an Internet adult entertainer, C.J. Miles, to establish dialogues with pro athletes.

On multiple occasions, several Redskins players attempted to arrange meetings with "Ackerman," but none of them succeeded, Daniels said. The numerous failed attempts led to suspicion, and Daniels then received some independent information about the possibility that "Ackerman" indeed was a fake.

Last Friday, NFL.com discovered another unverified Twitter account, @RideAndDieChick, which also used a photo of Miles as its Twitter avatar. NFL.com was able to confirm that separate people run each of these accounts (@RideAndDieChick and @RedRidnH00d) independently of one another. Perhaps most unsettling about the latest account, which started operating within the past two months: As of Saturday afternoon, @RideAndDieChick was being followed by 22 verified NFL players and six verified NBA players. As of Tuesday, however, the account no longer was active.

During a dialogue with @RideAndDieChick through the direct message function Saturday, the person operating the account claimed to have had conversations with at least three notable professional football players. The identity of those players has been withheld because the conversations could not be independently verified.


http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap10...kins-duped-by-woman-with-fake-online-identity

That didn't take four years to collapse in on itself.

 

[wheels002]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jBXSOLWNQ4

This is funny

 

[tonyballs]

http://espn.go.com/college-football...onaiah-tuiasosopo-was-voice-talking-manti-teo

Teo was talking to a man pretending to be a woman all those months.

Fn priceless