Comments on: NFL should be concerned about “catfishing”

By: greyhawk9

greyhawk9 — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:38:56 +0000

spin doctor

By: greyhawk9

greyhawk9 — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:18:00 +0000

thanks mike

By: pinion8ted

pinion8ted — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:35:45 +0000

I have no doubt Te’o was in this hoax all along.

None.

Nobody is that stupid, and there’s too many holes in this story.

ND got caught in this guy’s lies, and is trying to spin it themselves.

By: moneey31

moneey31 — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:28:19 +0000

Guys, I know it sounds far fetched but this really happens. hell, I was catfished myself before, though I didn’t know it had a name. Simply put, I tried dating online and met a beautiful female and we talked everyday and night on the phone for about 3 months. When the time came to meet, she never showed up where we where supposed to meet. She did this to me three times before I finally realized it was just a sick game being played. These people are cruel and apparently have no life in order to spend countless hours faking to like someone.This happened to me while I was a senior in college and I was an All. American, though at a smaller school…IT CAN HAPPEN!

By: rtant2013

rtant2013 — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:21:16 +0000

I’ve been watching all the sports networks, First Take, Mike and Mike, Colin Cowherd, Larry King and they’re all saying i may just be old but I could never fall in love with someone I’ve never met. Well guys I’m a 22 yr old college student (same age as Te’o) and I could absolutely never fall in love with someone on line. Hell I haven’t even fell in love with girls I’ve actually been with. I don’t get it, are these people just that moronic and gullible that they never check anything about what someone they don’t know is telling them. If Teo is actually telling the truth, only thing he had to do was check if someone went to Stanford by that name and boom whole situation avoided. So in my opinion if anyone is that ignorant to fall for a pretty pic then they deserve what they get.

By: 8man

8man — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:09:03 +0000

It is not possible to “date” someone you’ve never met, let alone be “in love with”. This is more an indictment of how freakish our society has become because of the misuse of social media.

What these people do when they “sleep” with their “significant other”? Get in bed and plop the laptop on the pillow next to them?

By: gavriloprincip33

gavriloprincip33 — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:07:48 +0000

“If Te’o’s version is accurate..”

PMSL….

Of course it isn’t accurate; he is lying through his teeth and we know this because there isn’t a single picture of him with “Lenny”…

By: ispysomething7

ispysomething7 — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:26:29 +0000

This is ridiculous. This wasn’t some random person, it was his friend. No one does this to a friend just for fun. Why go through all that? It makes no sense. Then there is the perfectly plausible scenario, where they conspired to put him in the Heisman race and get a lot more money.

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and BINGO was his name-o

By: ham1

ham1 — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 10:59:01 +0000

ESPN Reporting, In bed with BCS=BS reporting.
They only reported half the story when they knew more. Trying to protect their precious relations w the BCS.

By: sfm073

sfm073 — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 10:31:49 +0000

I understand this happening to some lonely guy that can’t talk to a woman. But we’re talking about big muscular football players worthy millions of dollars.

By: brohamma

brohamma — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:13:47 +0000

I’m glad to see you writing about this subject Florio. To many people, see previous comments, are quick to point the finger at this guy and fire-away with insults and accusations.

Educating players is the way forward. It’s hard to imagine how devastating a hoax like this can be, though we read about suicidal endings in situations like this to frequently.. albeit to victims who are not so well-known as Te’o.

The guy was “bullied,” and likely fed-into the hoax, because the embarassement of being so naive was to great to admit to.

By: hatasgonnahate

hatasgonnahate — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 06:34:40 +0000

No.. Just no…

By: Distinguished Male

Distinguished Male — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 06:31:03 +0000

No to everything about this post. Just, no.

By: xtb3

xtb3 — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 06:29:56 +0000

And I thought it meant going fishing for real fishes with real cats as bait.

By: teaspoon1731

teaspoon1731 — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 06:20:09 +0000

“No one does this to a friend just for fun. Why go through all that? It makes no sense.”

Sadly, you’re dangerously out of touch with the bored youth of America if you think this a) doesn’t happen and b) no one would do this to a friend (sure there’s the emotional burden of lost relationship, but also great publicity). Creating false accounts and establishing these kinds of relationships is a big part of cyberbullying

I’m not saying Te’o is innocent. Merely that this stuff does actually happen more often then you would think. Kids these days *shakes fist

By: richiesaurus310

richiesaurus310 — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 06:12:02 +0000

Mantis is an idiot, and kind of a wierdo if you ask me…

By: yourmomcalled

yourmomcalled — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 05:52:20 +0000

There is no dame in Notre Dame.

By: Slackmo

Slackmo — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 05:50:32 +0000

Everyone knows there are no girls on the Internet chatz.

By: mackcarrington

mackcarrington — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 05:45:24 +0000

I’m a really hot chick who looks a lot better than Miss Alabama. Send me $12,000 dollars and I’ll be YOUR girlfriend. Oh, and be sure you don’t tell your wife. Let’s just keep this between us!

By: upperdecker19

upperdecker19 — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 05:45:19 +0000

But the EHarmony 29 points of compatibility is foolproof!

By: greyhawk9

greyhawk9 — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 05:40:22 +0000

This is no case of catfishing…this is just ND trying to create reasonable doubt regarding Teo’s guilt.

By: dtlb58

dtlb58 — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 05:32:45 +0000

You are right Mike. But you know what? They have the NFL rookie symposium every year for stuff like this. They bring in former players and coaches that they think the rookies might look up to and at the end of the day, they are still having players fall asleep in this meeting and or saying that they are day dreaming and not even paying attention to all the scamming and financial advise they are being giving.
Some guys just gotta learn the hard way.
Also, at some point you gotta remember these guys are adults. At least 21 years old, they gotta be responsible for their own actions and stop blaming others. (Agents, NFL).

By: tfbuckfutter

tfbuckfutter — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 05:17:45 +0000

The NFL should also accompany it’s players to bars and intervene if the player in question has beer goggles for what will no doubt end up being a regrettable skeezer.

By: thegreatgabbert

thegreatgabbert — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 05:14:33 +0000

I think they call it “Catfishing” because that is usually what the girls look like when you finally do meet them.

By: pgilbert15303

pgilbert15303 — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 05:11:43 +0000

Catfish mu hiney… We have another case of Mike Piazza syndrome. I promise you, you’ll be buying the book.

“Arron Rogers, the loved to sack him, but loved his sack even more” god, I can see it now….

By: jc327

jc327 — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 05:10:36 +0000

There’s also the possibilty the dude was lying.

By: firstroyal

firstroyal — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 05:05:30 +0000

At the NFL level is a non-issue. After signing a NFL mulit-million dollar contract these guys get a super-secret, simple, three word password that enables them to establish a relationship instantly at the smallest whiff of a desire.

I will share it with you.

“Do you wanna?”

By: thegreatgabbert

thegreatgabbert — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 05:03:18 +0000

Like this Russian girl I befriended on the internet. Looked gorgeous in the photo, but when she arrived using the ticket I bought for her, she looked exactly like that fish in the picture.

By: raysfan1

raysfan1 — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 04:57:02 +0000

I’m not giving the guy a pass/buying what he’s selling, nor am I passing judgment…yet. There is just not enough information right now. For those who say that, if this is true, then he must be stupid…well I worked in a very large organization, and our IT department would sometimes run fake phishing exercises to then use the results to target training needs–to help maintain the organization’s computer security–and caught people every time. Catfishing is obviously more complex; however, there are pretty sophisticated con artists out there. They prey on the naive and unsuspecting. Naïveté and gullibility do not automatically mean the person is also stupid.

By: finsrule2222

finsrule2222 — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 04:55:08 +0000

i’m in college now and if you give me the platform and recognition of Te’o I would need to be tested for STD’s bi-weekly. The dude is either gay or is seriously lacking in testosterone.