Manti
Te'o, a Notre Dame star linebacker, lead his team to an outstanding season
this year as their only loss was to Alabama in the BCS National Championship
game. Manti dedicated his season to Lennay (his
girlfriend) and his grandmother, both had pasted away, and many saw him as a
role model for doing so.
Lennay and Manti had never met in person. They met over the
social networking cite known as facebook. Soon, over text and messaging, they
had felt like a real connection was formed and started "dating."
Then, her brother, Kainoa, called him on April twenty-eighth, telling
Manti that Lennay had been in a horrible car crash and was in a coma. Monti was
devastated, but never did he go and visit her. Finally, she got out of her
coma, and they started talking again. Then, Manti got news that she had gotten leukemia.
Once again he was devastated, but they talked on the phone every night, and by
reading bible passages to each other, they were able to get through it. Then
she pasted away...
He was not able to attend her funeral because before Lennay had
died, she made him promise not to miss a football game for it. Her funeral was
held on the day of the Michigan game, and Manti sent her white roses, as she
would have wanted. Then, the truth broke out!
There was nobody by the name of Lennay at Stanford, the school she
had been telling him she attended. In fact, Lennay never existed at all. It was
all just a big hoax, a mean prank to be played on Manti by Ronaiah
Tuiasosopo!
This is clearly not
something that was entirely Manti's fault. Manti was trying to do something
nice for his girlfriend by dedicating the season to her, and had no idea it was
a hoax. Even though he did lie about meeting her in person, I feel very bad for
him. He is clearly embarrassed by the situation and people should leave him
alone! It’s hard enough for him to have to deal with the hoax, but now he has
to deal with the media and everyone else! This has happened to thousands of
people, as shown on the popular TV show Catfish, and I don’t believe people are
being very understanding to Manti's situation just because he is a star
athlete. If you were in his situation, would you want this kind of publicity on
TV about you?
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ReplyDeleteI fixed it John, thanks for your concern
ReplyDeleteThat was quick. Were you just waiting for someone to comment?
ReplyDeleteAfter a prank like this, I would hate to be on television. It would be hard to go through the harassment of people who think you are a liar who made the whole thing up. Don't get me wrong, he did lie, but wouldn't you? After finding out that the person you had been dating and lost to leukemia was not real, how could you tell people that it was not real? This would be embarrassing and hard to go through. The man who did this to Manti should be harassed, not Manti.
ReplyDeleteThis might be the funniest story that has ever been revealed to the public. First of all, a star football player had to use a dating website to get a girlfriend, that's embarrassing right there. Second, he was fooled so easily. How can someone be so easily fooled?
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