Comments on: Schaap tells Te’o's story, who admits he never met fake, dead girlfriend

By: royaldawgz

royaldawgz — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:19:18 +0000

“Fourth, the ESPN.com article says that Te’o didn’t go see her in the hospital when she was recovering from a car accident or battling leukemia because “it never crossed my mind” to do so. Fifth, the ESPN.com article says that Te’o didn’t attend Kekua’s funeral because “her mom didn’t want me to come.”

And that ladies and gentlemen is all the proof anyone should need. Can we move on now please?

By: nofunleague

nofunleague — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 01:37:38 +0000

Yeah he kept all of this to himself so as not to embarrass himself and Notre Dame. so during the game He and Notre Dame did just that. embarrass themselves in front of the whole nation. Either way he is a loser. He kept quite to garner Heisman votes. give me a break. Loser.

By: bills4

bills4 — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:09:15 +0000

Everyone lies, sure they do. I told my boss I was sick last week when I wasn’t but you are an idiot to compare the two lies. Teo knew, there will be sources that will find the actual truth here and it ain’t going to look pretty!

By: acassidy2013

acassidy2013 — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 22:43:24 +0000

Everyone lies…. Still doesn’t change the fact that he is backed up by ND players and coaches as a good person. We are going to judge someone on a lie that gone blown out of proportion. He did mean to deceive the whole world… Maybe he was did want to appear like a fool to his friends and family for having a girlfriend he never met in person. So much hate for someone who made a mistake show what class of people really are…. Judge lest not ye be judged.

By: acassidy2013

acassidy2013 — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 22:27:25 +0000

He still lost two close family members in the same year. It was a still a hard loss… He didn’t get to go to his grandmothers funeral, even though he really wanted to. He also lost his grandfather in jan2012.

Give the young guy a break he didn’t sign up for all this media craziness.

Seems to me he cared about someone that didn’t exist and felt great shame.

By: eventhorizon04

eventhorizon04 — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 22:10:15 +0000

I think it’s funny how some apologists keep saying, “He was fooled, not his fault.”

Here is the full quote from Te’o when he was asked why he never visited his internet girlfriend (whom he said he was madly in love with) while she lay dying in the hospital.

“I don’t know. It never crossed my mind. I was in school.”

That’s the quote from the ESPN transcript.

I don’t think it’s even *vaguely* plausible that he honestly believed his girlfriend was in the hospital and honestly didn’t think it was necessary to visit her before she “died from leukemia.” He must have known by then she wasn’t real.

Read the transcript – “It didn’t cross my mind to visit my terminally ill girlfriend in the hospital.” is basically what he said.

By: Lucky82

Lucky82 — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 20:31:34 +0000

Jeremy Schaap’s long winded babble is the only overkill worse than this write up for a 16 magazine heartthrob story.

Does anyone really care?

By: 4cornersfan

4cornersfan — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 20:03:04 +0000

Why are we still hearing about this at all? The poor kid got scammed by some jerk on the internet with a sad and romantic story. He’s not the first and won’t be the last. The sad thing is that some reports say that the incident might hurt his draft standing. How does that even come into the picture?

By: abninf

abninf — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:51:47 +0000

rao50858 says:
Jan 19, 2013 10:47 AM
Te’oing – having a relationship with a fake person/entity.
Tebowing – having a relationship with a fake person/entity.

I don’t see the difference.
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The difference is you can prove the former but not the latter.

By: ialwayswantedtobeabanker

ialwayswantedtobeabanker — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:42:11 +0000

You imply that Jeremy Schaap is an “unofficial P.R. Agent for Mante Te’o” operating under the “guise” of a get – allows the reader to infer that he’s not journalistically honest.

Isn’t a reporter or any media type allowed to gather facts and draw their own conclusions, much like you a dozen or more times a day, every day for over twelve years?

Also, Jeremy Schaap has asked a lot of tough questions to difficult subjects (e.g., the Bobby Knight interviews). He’s not afraid to follow the facts and his beliefs, whichever way they lead him.

By: mogogo1

mogogo1 — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:25:18 +0000

So, ESPN runs full-out with the dead girlfriend story without confirming anything–even still running stories after they knew she hadn’t graduated from Stanford and that there was NOTHING on her via background checks–and now they just blindly accept the liar’s explanation? At any real news network, Schaap would be fired for how he handled this story.

By: cometkazie

cometkazie — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:22:54 +0000

Te’o has had more than his deserved five minutes of fame.

Please, let’s talk about something of import.

By: jasonculhane

jasonculhane — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:22:09 +0000

This guy’s an idiot…I’m sorry, but really how can someone be this nieve and dumb?

A girlfriend he’s never seen? But he goes to a college full of them and this is the best a “captain” of a football team can get? A chic he hasn’t seen? Hasn’t got with in 2 years? She’s no girlfriend, she’s a pen pal then. He’s been saying its his “girlfriend” and thats where he’s “confused”.

Sorry, just not buying it. I totally think he played it up or used it for a good story. If not, then he deserves the ridicule anyway for just believing its his girlfriend.

By: hooterdawg

hooterdawg — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:05:54 +0000

Mike, get your own scoop and go find Ronaiah Tuiasospo. THAT interview will be much more revealing than anything that Te’o fabricates.

By: gbearc

gbearc — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:04:58 +0000

Oh, to be clear, I was referring to today’s report and excerpts(Saturday), not Friday’s where they played more of Manti’s actual responses. Today, after playing one recorded Te’o response for approx. 5 seconds before they switched to Schaap reading Manti’s answers for the bulk of the report. Weird.

By: hooterdawg

hooterdawg — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:01:16 +0000

“I’m surprised Schaap didn’t come on the air wearing a Te’o ND jersey and a lei.”

I don’t think Schaap ever got leied.

Schaap seems like the kind of guy who can empathize with getting ‘catfished’ from his own personal experience.

By: rickrock6661982

rickrock6661982 — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:58:48 +0000

To all the Notre Dame fans that believe Te’o is a phony, we salute you.

By: dafixisin

dafixisin — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:55:07 +0000

It never crossed his mind to visit her in the hospital? What? I repeat… what?

By: duck99

duck99 — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:08:43 +0000

This is easy. Produce those records showing he spent hundreds of hours on the phone with this girl. If he does that he goes from being a blatant liar to just a complete moron.

By: usmutts

usmutts — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:04:11 +0000

Where’s old Howard Cosell when we need him? Howard would skin this guy alive. Then he would nail Schaap.

By: Canyonero

Canyonero — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 17:36:36 +0000

I already can’t wait for Te’o to retire.

By: WatchThis

WatchThis — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 17:13:00 +0000

No one’s answered the more important question of what the great significance is if he or anyone else makes up a fake girlfriend. Anyone?

By: pirate472

pirate472 — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 16:51:13 +0000

Sorry, but I just don’t trust ESPN (TASS). They were complicit along with Notre Dame in leading the hype parade for this guy. More importantly they wanted to be the “first” to interview this weirdo and perhaps agreed with Teo’s handlers that only shallow/softball questions would be asked.

By: 2dmo4

2dmo4 — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 16:47:55 +0000

This guy is a liar & a friggin moron.

By: 16x8equal49ers

16x8equal49ers — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 16:45:03 +0000

Also why did he not use a recorder like most reporters do when interviewing someone w/out a camera crew.

By: Nofoolnodrool

Nofoolnodrool — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 16:28:35 +0000

People should be this outraged over obstruction of justice..I guess it depends on your team fairness is not a criteria..ok got it?

By: Nofoolnodrool

Nofoolnodrool — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 16:18:18 +0000

One fact we do know is that the kid lied. Would you want this kid leading your defense? Would you want this kid to be a face of your franchise?

Please the outrage is misplaced when a certain linebacker playing Sunday has done so much worse. I find you outrage to be very short sighted.

By: patsfan13

patsfan13 — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 16:17:45 +0000

How could she be his girl friend if he never actually met her?

By: acanniv

acanniv — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 16:17:28 +0000

@supremecommander…

So why would it never even occur to him to visit this ill person he cared so deeply about? Also, why would he continue to bring “her” up, unprompted, to the national media in interviews (that he was all too eager to do at the time) after he (allegedly) found out “she” was fake?

By: bucrightoff

bucrightoff — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 16:12:16 +0000

People acting like Manti has no shot of playing in the NFL forget the fact that there are guys with 10 kids with 8 women, murderers, felons and generally awful human beings in the league. But if you can make the plays, none of that matters in the slightest. If Manti can be a 150 tackle a year guy, his personal life effectively doesn’t matter.