We’ve all heard the lies athletes tell about ways they cheat such as taking steroids, corking their bats and doping.<\/p>\n
It’s nothing new to the sports world to say that people cheat.<\/p>\n
But it was a new one when Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o announced to the world that he had a “girlfriend” who “died.”<\/p>\n
The online timeline for the complicated, twisted story is full of cover-ups and misunderstandings and is nearly three pages long.<\/p>\n
What it comes down to, however, is that Te’o’s “girlfriend” was never a real person. <\/p>\n
She existed purely online and someone whom he had never met. He claims that he was pulled into a hoax and believed she was real. Many, however, claim that Te’o knew she was fake all along and continued to go along with it for media attention.<\/p>\n
What really captured everyone’s attention was when Te’o made the claim that his girlfriend had died. He says he thought it was real all along.<\/p>\n
But then, according to a USA Today article, Te’o admitted he “didn’t lie about the hoax until December.”<\/p>\n
If Te’o confessed this much, I feel like the more he is pushed the more he might admit.<\/p>\n
With each interview he does, more information seems to come spewing out, and in a couple weeks, I think more confessions are bound to be made. I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if slowly but surely he pushes back the time period that he knew it was a hoax.<\/p>\n
I know that things like online relationships are all the rage nowadays, but for those to be successful I think the people have to meet at some point. So I find it very hard to believe that Te’o really thought this online girlfriend was real the entire time when he had never even made physical contact with the (non-existent) woman. Let alone that he was completely in love with her.<\/p>\n
It’s one thing for an athlete to lie in order to cheat. It’s obviously completely wrong, but for him to lie about his or her personal life brings it to a whole new level. How desperate for pity and attention is the guy?<\/p>\n
If he was trying for media attention, he was definitely successful. Manti Te’o quickly became one of the most well-known names in college football.<\/p>\n
And he may have even started a new trend. Now instead of Tebowing we can start Te’oing: posing with your arm around an invisible significant other.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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