One of the craziest sports stories ever - amazing read
 

Notre Dame's star linebacker Manti Te'o, college football's defensive player of the year, contrived an amazing story of a girlfriend dying of leukemia dying hours of his grandmother dying that the press was all over - Deadspin investigates and finds the whole story is a lie.

Now Notre Dame is saying Te'o is a victim of a hoax played on him by several conspirators.

I get a ton of sadsack guys who email me that they have been sucked in and scammed by people using my models' photos - so I guess it's possible Te'o is a victim but he would have to be awfully stupid.

http://deadspin.com/5976517/manti-te...?post=56284056

cliff notes?

today is nothing crazy for me

Only a chump would get involved in an internet relationship.

Read the whole article. I'm left to conclude that Teo either was extremely naive and told some lies (meeting her after the Stanford game) to the media to perpetuate the relationship or he was in on the hoax with a friend. Deadspin did some amazing detective work to piece together the timeline, but there wasn't much info regarding phone calls I'm assuming had to have occurred between Teo and the fake persona. Surely finding out who owned that phone line would shed some light on the female that participated.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BAxy0T0CUAElRFL.jpg

He's a complete idiot.