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

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bucknut11;2290914; said:
Dad is blacklisting the local media because it showed his son missing a tackle on the front page.


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Helicopter parent.
 
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Manti Te'o did lose his grandmother this past fall. Annette Santiago died on Sept. 11, 2012, at the age of 72, according to Social Security Administration records in Nexis. But there is no SSA record there of the death of Lennay Marie Kekua, that day or any other. Her passing, recounted so many times in the national media, produces no obituary or funeral announcement in Nexis, and no mention in the Stanford student newspaper.

Nor is there any report of a severe auto accident involving a Lennay Kekua. Background checks turn up nothing. The Stanford registrar's office has no record that a Lennay Kekua ever enrolled. There is no record of her birth in the news. Outside of a few Twitter and Instagram accounts, there's no online evidence that Lennay Kekua ever existed.

The photographs identified as Kekua?in online tributes and on TV news reports?are pictures from the social-media accounts of a 22-year-old California woman who is not named Lennay Kekua. She is not a Stanford graduate; she has not been in a severe car accident; and she does not have leukemia. And she has never met Manti Te'o.
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This could get interesting.
Source seems to blow though.
 
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Just wondering is there any chance they made up a name so the girl would have some privacy? That's the only excuse that I can think of.

If this is true then wow. I don't know why you would lie about this, there isn't much to gain from it but Te'o could sure lose a lot of fans and respect from it.
 
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OhioState001;2292966; said:
Just wondering is there any chance they made up a name so the girl would have some privacy? That's the only excuse that I can think of.

If this is true then wow. I don't know why you would lie about this, there isn't much to gain from it but Te'o could sure lose a lot of fans and respect from it.
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as the article stated it was purely for publicity, and think about it, if it wasn't for the combination for g'ma and this gf dying, would he have had as much publicity and basically shot up to #2 in the heisman race?
 
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I'd like to think that Deadspin isn't stupid enough to post this without solid sources. We all know how wrapped around the axle his dad got over his hometown paper's front page...just imagine the shit storm (i.e., lawsuit) he'd raise if this story weren't accurate. This story doesn't simply question the accuracy of the Te'o relationship with his "girlfriend" but rather flat out calls it a hoax.
 
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MililaniBuckeye;2292968; said:
I'd like to think that Deadspin isn't stupid enough to post this without solid sources. We all know how wrapped around the axle his dad got over his hometown paper's front page...just imagine the shit storm (i.e., lawsuit) he'd raise if this story weren't accurate. This story doesn't simply question the accuracy of the Te'o relationship with his "girlfriend" but rather flat out calls it a hoax.
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I agree, and they've been money on a lot of article i've read...we'll see though
 
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