http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/meet_dame_in_grid_fauxmance_eouFDP9Ayr5kqGZ2Lyz91K

Back in my day an editor might say but always: “Hey, this story is too good to be true. Check it out.”

Then reporting would be done.
Comment by Ag80 (b2c81f) — 1/16/2013 @ 9:42 pm

You are so right, 80.

Now the editor says…”Hey this story is too good to check out”

There may be a real girl involved – who may have spoken to the Notre Dame athletic director – who however is not the same girl in the picture and whose name in not Lennay Marie Kekua and who is very much alive, and may not be the same person Reagan Mauia saw, if he’s telling the truth.

I would think at the minimum, Jack Swarbrick is the victime of a hoax.

Te’o wished Tuiasosopo a happy birthday on Twitter last June, and Tuiasosopo was an on-field guest at the November 24 Notre Dame-USC game in Los Angeles. (although his spoonser is unknown)

A Nov 23 tweet from Tuiasosopo’s deleted twitter account says he had a great night with Te’o.

Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick said he received a phione call from a number he associated with Kekua when he was in Oralnado, and was told Kekua was not dead. This was the same voice he had heard when he thought he was speaking to Kekua. Manti was unnerved by this, he says. (after he told him?)

Swarbrick said he met with Te’o on Thursday December 27 and they hiored a firm to investigate and received a final report on Friday January 4, which is under wraps. swarbrick said he believed Te’o and his family were going to make the stiory ouyblic next week.

He says their investigators discovered online chatter where people talk about what they had accomplished.

He says the emotions and feelings Te’o had about Kekua were genuine and several meetings fell through and it was all real to Manti.

Tuiasosopo had himself been in a car accident a month before the notional car accident the notional Lennay Marie Kekua was in.

Meanwhile, Arizona Cardinals fullback Reagan Mauia told ESPN that he had been friends with Kekua before she met Manti and he was good friends with the family, and he described her appearance as Polynesian, tall, long hair and that she looked like a model.

http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/college/football/irish_lies_9ZT3kPBCNBDTCiLM6xgGgM

1. Manti was the victim of a catfish (hoax played upon him).

2. Manti made up a pretend girlfriend and led others around him to believe that she existed, only to have her die merely hours after his grandmother died. Manti was smart enough to pattern his hoax according to a known catfish scenario in the off-chance that he was outed. This was all done for publicity…Manti wasn’t happy with the amount that he already received. Manti gets wind of the fact that people are on to his hoax so he tells the University. ND is complicit with Manti’s hoax in order to save face, and also tells its own elaborate hoax to cover up Manti’s lie. Finally, to tie it all up someone in Manti’s camp gets someone from the NFL to give a statement about how he believes that Lannay actually existed.

To cyncial morons like reffer, #2 is obviously the most likely scenario.

Reffer, don’t let your anticatholicism get in the way of common sense, you dolt.