Could the whole BCS "Cheer, Cheer For Old Notre Dame" scam be coming down as we speak?
The #1 Trending Story on Twitter right now is an exploding scandal on the part of the sports media, once again brought about by the anti-ESPN site Deadspin:
The entire story about Manti Te'o, the Heisman Trophy finalist from Notre Dame, where it was so inspirational that he played through the death of his girlfriend (shortly (six hours) after learning of the death of his grandmother) has been now shown a hoax.
Basically, as Sports Illustrated would want you to believe, Te'o was on the phone all night with his girlfriend (who had not only been diagnosed with leukemia, but also was in a major car accident). After learning of her death and the death of his grandmother, The Show Must Go On, and he led the Notre Dame defense in a Triumphant and Inspirational Victory three days later against Michigan State...
(A victory which aided Notre Dame into a clearly-fraudulent BCS National Championship Game trip against Alabama, where -- their use having been fulfilled -- they promptly got woodshedded, just like the rest of the country outside the SEC in college football.)
The day of her supposed funeral, Te'o and the Fighting Irish are playing Michigan. He sends the casket, supposedly, white roses, and two interceptions he has in the win over Michigan. (Football more important than your girlfriend's funeral? That should've been tip-off #1!)
Everyone was getting in on the story -- her, a Stanford student, falling in love with the Fighting Irish player after meeting him after the game...
(Are we ready to vomit just yet???)
Well, the grandmother half of that is true.
The girlfriend, basically, never existed. Deadspin did everything from check the Social Security Administration (which is the way they verified the grandmother's death) to calling up Stanford to checking local death records to police records...
The woman appears to have never existed.
The photos, including one CBS posted to go along with the story of how he played against Michigan, appear to be of someone else, who DeadSpin contacted.
Am I to say Te'o is at fault? If so, he's as big a hypocrite as Mitt Romney, for similar reasons!
And it appears he is. He has a verified Twitter account, and is purported to have sent a love Tweet to the girlfriend October 10, 2011 (even though they were purported to have met in 2009!!), they became a Twitter couple, and, then, all Hell broke loose.
Deadspin contacted the woman whose pictures were being used in the middle of all this (she's given a pseudonym in the article), and she told of a classmate of hers, Ronaiah Tuiasosopo. (Yes, for those watching, he is related to a number of NFL players in his family -- he's cousins with Navy (LA Rams), Marques (Oakland), Manu (Seahags), and the late Fred Matua (several teams).)
So how does he enter all this? He's a musician, as well as a lot of other things, and actually was promoted by Te'o after he heard a 2011 single. They are apparently close friends, and saw each other, at the least, on the weekend of the BCS-clinching win by Notre Dame over USC.
Tuiasosopo HAD been in a car accident a month beforehand, about the time this story began to take flight.
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So why all this fuss?
Several things, really.
The first is that it is another facet that speaks of an increasing scam -- media and corporate-driven -- to promote Notre Dame back to #1 (only to get served like the bitches they really appeared to be, when you saw them on the field, when their use was exhausted!).
Second, it appears to be another scam to put up football as larger than life and death itself.
And we really need to get the Hell over ourselves on that garbage before it actually does kill more people, as in that it will kill people who believe that their lives have been subjugated for The Almighty Touchdown Jesus, Golden Dome, and National Religion of Football.
Yeah, I'm talking to the Seahags fan in San Diego who throws away friendships like they are old receipts.
I'm talking to you, Manti.
Who else am I talking about here, it seems? The whole media? It that important that we have to have a story so that we have even one relevant non-SEC team that we basically have to invent shit now, in the guise of Rocky Balboa?
REALLY??
It's now being believed that one common friend believes Monte and Ronaiah were, with 80% certainty, in on it for the publicity.
Do you have even the remotest idea of how this shit impacts real people?
People outside the scope of football?
Or do you not care, because that's how we "roll" these days?
Obviously, Te'o is trying to focus on the NFL Draft, but I have a feeling he's going to have a lot of questions to answer before his draft stock starts plummeting.
Perhaps some of the questions should also be pointed at Notre Dame, and perhaps the sports media, if not the BCS itself!!
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