So, it seems that the Notre Dame Star linebacker had a pretend girl friend, who pretended to die, and it was a running sympathy story that EPSN ran with leading up to Heisman voting and the BCS national championship game. It broke today that the whole thing was made up. Not sure what to believe at this point. So far, the evidence points towards Te'o making the story up himself, but he's claiming to also be a victim of the hoax.
I just heard about it on Greta Van Susteren's show just minutes ago.
Personally, I could care less. It wasn't worth my time to change the channels to find out what this big "hoax" was all about.
According to his game against Alabama, it looks like his playing ability was also a hoax.
amazing to think someone (is going to have/wants us to think he had) a telephone relationship for nearly three years. i need a hand to hold onto, at least. sad story for them to think the public might buy it
Who Likes the Manti Te'o Dead Girlfriend Story the Most?
Lance Armstrong.
AS the weatherman said this morning on the news, "I feel sorry for the imaginary girlfriends imaginary family, I can only imagine how they must feel."
Who Likes the Manti Te'o Dead Girlfriend Story the Most?
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Who Likes the Manti Te'o Dead Girlfriend Story the Most?
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That was good.
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The picture would be better if someone would add two crystal footballs in front of A.J.!
New sign leaving the locker room:
Play like your fake girlfriend died today.
> Personally, I could care less.
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The problem is, the sports media isn't going to let it go. They are going to villify him as thoroughly as possible, because they were so far up his a** during the season, idolizing him and creating a god for others to worship. Now they look like idiots, the ND football program and AD look like fools because they are defending him (when he was obviously complicit to some extent in perpetuating the hoax, if not orchestrating it). Good grief people. We should all just be able to point our fingers, laugh, and move on to something worthwhile. But if we have any interest in watching sports coverage, we are going to be force-fed coverage of the story, coverage of the coverage of the story, coverage of his family, coverage of the AD who's defending him, coverage of the effect on the ND football program, coverage of how this affects his draft status, blah blah blah. I remember the day when sports coverage was about sports.
> > Personally, I could care less.
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> The problem is, the sports media isn't going to let it go. They are going to villify him as thoroughly as possible, because they were so far up his a** during the season, idolizing him and creating a god for others to worship. Now they look like idiots, the ND football program and AD look like fools because they are defending him (when he was obviously complicit to some extent in perpetuating the hoax, if not orchestrating it). Good grief people. We should all just be able to point our fingers, laugh, and move on to something worthwhile. But if we have any interest in watching sports coverage, we are going to be force-fed coverage of the story, coverage of the coverage of the story, coverage of his family, coverage of the AD who's defending him, coverage of the effect on the ND football program, coverage of how this affects his draft status, blah blah blah. I remember the day when sports coverage was about sports.
Me too!
My parents told me that I learned to read proficiently as a young kid by reading the sports page of the NY papers and I learned a lot of math from the box scores on my own reading.
Once in the 70’s, a friend ask me while we were having breakfast at a dive, ‘why do you only read the sport section of the paper?’
I told him that it was the only news that was positive in the paper, all the rest of the paper was usually negative news that I wasn’t interested in reading.
But scandal, sex and crime sell as they say in the media.
There are some good sport journalists/reporters here who have some class and treat the sports in a positive manner but then again there are others who go for the headlines with negative news and controversy.
