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NoSuch Dame LB Manti "Snugglebunny" Te'o (official imaginary thread)

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I like how fellow hack sportswriters are coming to the defense of guys like Pete Thamel for getting burned on this.

http://www.shermanreport.com/really-if-you-were-a-reporter-do-you-ask-to-see-the-death-certificate/

Really, who among us out there wouldn?t have done the same thing? Name me a reporter who says, ?Sorry to hear about your loss, Manti. Can I see a copy of the death certificate??
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Give me a fucking break. If these guys were really reporting a story, they would have followed up on even the most basic details about what they were writing about. It doesn't take a death certificate to verify many of the basic facts related to the story... facts that maybe won't be written about but at least would let the writer know that the things they were going to write about are reasonably supported assertions.

I don't want to hear the "respect for privacy" excuse, either. Tyrann Mathieu and his family must be shaking their damn heads at that one.

I can see a blog or a small-time newspaper getting taken in by the original story. If you're writing a feature for the cover of Sports Illustrated though, I expect more. The fact of the matter is, many of these people who were doing "original reporting" on Te'o before are nothing more than accomplices in the making of a myth. This isn't something that's unique to this situation or to Notre Dame - it happens thoughout sportswriting. This time, a few people got burned by it. Time to take your medicine.
 
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Poe McKnoe;2293537; said:
I would believe Teo except for one piece that is just way too glaring...

3+ YEARS.

2009-2012.

His whole college football career.

They supposedly knew each other for 3 years, and not once in 3 years did Teo meet this "girl". Never? He basically flew over "her" every time he went back to Hawaii.

C'mon.
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according to Swarbrick, they were supposed to meet several times but she never showed up.

So he "dated" the "love of his life" for 3 freaking years without meeting her.
didn't meet hr because she stood him up multiple times.

yeah, that's normal and believable.
 
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Te'o is going to be the Brett Romberg of this draft. Played like shit in the bowl game and is now coming off as a complete idiot. What NFL team wants this moron calling plays in the defensive huddle next year?
 
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jlb1705;2293539; said:
I like how fellow hack sportswriters are coming to the defense of guys like Pete Thamel for getting burned on this.

http://www.shermanreport.com/really-if-you-were-a-reporter-do-you-ask-to-see-the-death-certificate/



Give me a fucking break. If these guys were really reporting a story, they would have followed up on even the most basic details about what they were writing about. It doesn't take a death certificate to verify many of the basic facts related to the story... facts that maybe won't be written about but at least would let the writer know that the things they were going to write about are reasonably supported assertions.

I don't want to hear the "respect for privacy" excuse, either. Tyrann Mathieu and his family must be shaking their damn heads at that one.

I can see a blog or a small-time newspaper getting taken in by the original story. If you're writing a feature for the cover of Sports Illustrated though, I expect more. The fact of the matter is, many of these people who were doing "original reporting" on Te'o before are nothing more than accomplices in the making of a myth. This isn't something that's unique to this situation or to Notre Dame - it happens thoughout sportswriting. This time, a few people got burned by it. Time to take your medicine.
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This guy would have needed to see the body:

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exhawg;2293546; said:
Te'o is going to be the Brett Romberg of this draft. Played like shit in the bowl game and is now coming off as a complete idiot. What NFL team wants this moron calling plays in the defensive huddle next year?
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Good question.

I figured having his pants pulled down on national TV for 3 hours was bad enough to drop him, but this is the icing on the cake.
 
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scooter1369;2293544; said:
I feel filthy that I agree with Doyel.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/story/21564507/most-unbelievable-part-of-teo-saga-swarbricks-trust-in-him
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in the comment section.:slappy:

PSUFan4Life 10 minutes ago

@freeneyblitz Agreed. People always buy what the media sells regardless of facts. The media will run with a story that Manti was in on it because that's the "bigger" story. Him being pranked is a story as well but not the same. "He did it to get himself exposure and win a Heisman..." I'll wait to see some racts and you know... Wait for Manti to actually speak before i cast any stones froom my glass house.
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ORD_Buckeye;2293535; said:
Probably all of it. The Mormon thing (not the most forward thinking group when it comes to acceptance of sexual orientation). The ND thing (ND isn't Jesuit like Georgetown or BC; it has a very conservative administration and alumni base) and the NFL thing (no NFL team is going to take an openly gay "distraction" in the first round).
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I don't think any NFL team wouldn't take him because he's gay. I'd rather think that any NFL team wouldn't take him because of this:

manti-te-o-eddie-lacy.jpg
 
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