Manti Te'o's dead girlfriend?

ESPN ticker said "Ronaiah had dramatic voice training."

They are turning into Fox/MSNBC (pick your poison).

 
OK, so let's run with the idea that Manti Te'o's buddy Ronaiah Tuiasosopo has the ability to pull off that falsetto voice. You're tell me that in all the years they've been friends, Te'o has never heard Tuiasosopo's falsetto "girl voice?" Not even once, not enough to make him suspect something?

These explanations don't explain anything.

 
knapplc said:
OK, so let's run with the idea that Manti Te'o's buddy Ronaiah Tuiasosopo has the ability to pull off that falsetto voice. You're tell me that in all the years they've been friends, Te'o has never heard Tuiasosopo's falsetto "girl voice?" Not even once, not enough to make him suspect something?

These explanations don't explain anything.
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QMany said:
He's gay. Just come out. It's OK.
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Looking (sounding?) more and more likely all the time.

 
QMany said:
Knapplc, he's gay, right?

I think I can honestly say that's the most plausible scenario here.
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I think so too. It's all coming back full circle to the gay theory. Kudos to those who stuck with and hammered that theory, becuase I had frankly givin up on it. I'm bettin it will come out that he's gay after he's drafted and a contract's signed. Te'o seems to be nothing more than an attention whore at this time.

 
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QMany said:
Knapplc, he's gay, right?

I think I can honestly say that's the most plausible scenario here.
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why kill 'her'? why lionize 'her' as his motivation and create a national, inspirational story?
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I think those questions are a little easier to answer than "how did you talk to a woman for 1,000 phone calls and not know that it was a man (that you personally knew)?"

 
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I don't know. Something about this story initially led me to think he's gay, but there's been nothing come out since that bolsters that theory. The only evidence that possibly supports it is that he covered up a relationship - and he could have done that for any one of 1,000 reasons.

 
knapplc, Manti didn't really know Tuis that well I think. I think I read somewhere they met once or twice. Wanted to echo Guy's post for emphasis:

Guy Chamberlin said:
I know a couple people who've been catfished.

They weren't stupid people. They were both pretty damn smart.

But boy, did they want to believe the perfect stranger on the other side of the Internet was perfect. Life was just easier that way.

And the sick people (it often takes more than one) behind the scam knew exactly what they were doing.

Friends of the victims knew something smelled terribly wrong, but there was no convincing the lovelorn until the evidence was overwhelming and hugely embarrassing.

These were 35 - 45 year old women with bad relationship histories. Te'o is a young man who should have been able to score poon at the drop of his pants. The women were not famous, and were never asked to describe their relationship to the national press. So this was embarrassment on top of embarrassment.

I think it went down pretty much as Te'o describes, though he's obviously leaving out even more embarrassing parts.

And Tuiasosopo is an even sicker dude. That's the interview I want to hear.

Or maybe not. Just feels like time to move on.
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All those voicemail links are broken. Anyone have a mirror? I wanna hear that falsetto, haha. That is truly incredible.

Ok, I found it on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W-euQ3OigQ

Ronaiah is good. Damn.

 
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zoogies said:
knapplc, Manti didn't really know Tuis that well I think. I think I read somewhere they met once or twice.
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That's not supported by the original deadspin article:

Once high school ended, in 2008, Tuiasosopo threw himself into his father's church. Titus is the pastor at the Oasis Christian Church of the Antelope Valley, and Ronaiah leads the church's band. He also has his own little YouTube music career. He sings secular songs, with a cousin (Conan Amituanai, a former Arizona lineman whom the Vikings once signed), and religious songs, both
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LINK

 
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QMany said:
darren rovell ‏@darrenrovell

Te'o tells Katie Couric he didn't lie (to media). He was never asked if he had seen Lennay Kekua in person.
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Just keep digging that hole Manti.

 
knapplc said:
I don't know. Something about this story initially led me to think he's gay, but there's been nothing come out since that bolsters that theory. The only evidence that possibly supports it is that he covered up a relationship - and he could have done that for any one of 1,000 reasons.
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:lol:

Or no one....

 
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