You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™
Manti Te’o’s sit down interview with ESPN’s Jeremy Schaap.
It’s the 2nd biggest interview of the week, after Oprah and Lance Armstrong.
What a tangled web we weave.
Lance is a punk. No debate there.
But for the Notre Dame star, Manti, it’s a little different.
There’s no doubt he is a gullible dude. What a terrible hoax perpetrated on a spiritually inclined young man. After hearing Manti’s version, you have to think he was just a stupid, trusting, victim.
Before we heard from him, I heard everything from from everyone about Manti including he is gay to he was hogging headlines to bolster his Heisman hopes. It turns out, he’s just a dumb kid who got caught up in some ridiculousness.
As Manti himself said; it probably started as a bad joke that escalated into a national embarrassment.
Te’o admits to an on line and phone relationship with a girlfriend who didn’t exist. A girl who never exited? Why bother brother.
It turns out he was talking to another woman, sometimes a young girl. Yuk. And here’s the part that makes me squirm and even say hmmmmmm.
Sometimes the girl on the other end of the line was a man, pretending to be his girlfriend. You would think he would notice the Adam’s apple in his voice, wouldn’t you?
You want crazy? How about falling in love with a woman you never met. Then the story takes a Steven King turn of fate when she is in a serious truck crash, and then suddenly dies on the same day your grandmother really dies.
Tears of anguish and the national media eat up with a spoon because Manti is feeding it to them.
And it gets crazier when the phone rings and the dead girlfriend is back on the phone.
“Hi Manti. How ya doing? I’m not dead after all.”
WTF?
How do you think that crazy call went?
By this time the linebacker was in so deep he didn’t know how to get out.
Then the news broke and he was screwed.
T’eo didn’t allow cameras in the room but Schaap asked 2 hours of questions and Te’o answered them all.
Te’o would appear to be the victim of a terrible hoax that he supported by not questioning anything in this ridiculous farce of a relationship.
A scam only works because the person getting scammed refuses to see the red flags. Apparently Manti went to the beach during a hurricane warning and missed all the blowing red flags hanging on the life guard tower.
Te’o admits to lying about meeting the girl and he regrets the lies. He said he did it because the story had spun out of control and he was afraid everyone would think he was crazy for caring so much for a girl he had never met.
in retrospect that would seem a lot more believable now Manti.
As I’ve often said, only the truth will set you free. It sounds like this spiritual young man has begun the process of putting a sordid and embarrassing time behind him and moving on with the positive things that his life will be.
Hello NFL draft.
Hey Manti, one bit of advice. If you are going to date, make sure you meet her first.
And that is crazy.™