Commy Thread XXXV: Period in the Morning.

[Jetset]

He didn't get drafted. He just beasted as a FA for the Bengals.

even better

[TyCobb]

Only Burfict had more problems on the field than off the field.

[Jetset]

i'm probably marrying the internet after tonight

[TyCobb]

Was a huge topic of discussion in the draftnik world today. Best initial guess is that his damage control is solid and it doesn't hurt much. But I think it's another reason to find fault and that doesn't help him at all. I used to say his floor was the Bears at 20 or the Bengals, now I think that's his ceiling.

[Jetset]

well whatever burf did i'm pretty sure it doesn't even hold a candle to lying to all of america. this guy and his family sat up on nearly every prominent broadcasting station that bothered talking about college football talking about his girlfriend, how she died, and how much she meant to him. that takes carbon steel balls to do, and he kept it up. it's unfortunately about to take away all his sponsors and cost him millions. i believe the total amount of money he had lined up right now was somewhere in the range of 300-500k. aaannnddddd it's gone.

[TyCobb]

We'll see. Hard to come to a conclusion in the span of a few hours.

[Jetset]

it's not hard at all if you took time and read what deadspin put out and then listened to what nd's ad had to say. you really don't even need to hear what te'o has to say, he's going to say the same thing the ad said and what he put out in his statement. "i was hoaxed." this is just how it goes, te'o and nd already have the cop out story in place. it's all a matter of if he cries enough, but i don't think any amount of crying is going to save him at this point.

[TyCobb]

This is silly. If the worst thing he has done is create a fake gf for self-motivation, then he's lived a pretty good life.

[Jetset]

who said it was for motivation? now you're rushing to conclusions.

[Doormatt]

This is silly. If the worst thing he has done is create a fake gf for self-motivation, then he's lived a pretty good life.

thats cool i guess but not when you use said fake gf to garner sympathy and character votes for the heisman trophy and lie to national media outlets about. thats scandalous as ****

[Slava]

That Burfict guy's wiki says he had a pretty bad showing at the pre-draft combine drills. Wonder how much that caused his stick to drop.

Teo seems like a well spoken guy from a stable background, so comparing him to a guy from South Central LA is likely not accurate. The guy is a fraud but he will most likely be a laughing stock for a few months and become normal again.

[Doormatt]

this is also overshadowing the fact that chip kelly just pete carroll'd the ducks.

[Jetset]

http://pepperonsports.tumblr.com/

The sports world suffered a twitter-breaking case of shock and awe today with Deadspin’s piece detailing what appears to be the phony story concocted about the late girlfriend of Notre Dame star linebacker Manti Te’o. While the American public and the media sure felt duped, one of Te’o’s teammates wasn’t surprised, telling PepperOnSports.com that the players on the Fighting Irish football team smelled something fishy back in September 2012.

The Notre Dame football player, who asked for anonymity, told Pepper On Sports, “No we all knew he had only seen her once. But when the media was saying how he went through both deaths we knew,” said the source, referring to the back-to-back deaths of Te’o’s grandmother and girlfriend Lennay Kekua, who allegedly died of Leukemia.

In defense of the Heisman Trophy candidate, the source said he believes the lie may have indeed started with somebody duping Te’o using a phony twitter account, and eventually, faking their own death.

Early in my conversation with the source, the Notre Dame player said, “He lied, but the media blew it up.” In response to my follow-up question asking if the source thought that Te’o kept the story going because of the media attention, the player replied, “Yeah. Right after the Michigan [State] game. He should have never brought her in the media. His grandma passing was enough.”

Notre Dame’s victory over Michigan State and subsequent media explosion appears to have been the turning point for the source and many of his teammates.

The source said while the players discussed their suspicions amongst themselves, they never confronted Te’o.

“We would never bring it up. But we would look at him when he would get all emotional during media about his girl,” the player said.

When asked if he thought Te’o was a good actor, the player replied, “Very good.”

and this chick is apparently legit as she's worked for espn, nflnet, sportsnet boston, comcast, and currently for yahoo.

[TyCobb]

What was it for then? To have the other teams on ND's schedule lay down for them because they felt sorry for him and they can go undefeated? So the opposing QB's threw him the ball 7 times so he can be tied for second in all of FBS on the only undefeated team in the FBS?

[Slava]

Life tip: Women who post status updates like "Life is good " & "I'm awesome" are there for the picking.

Just show them a little bit of attention and they be melting in like 5 mins.

[Jetset]

What was it for then? To have the other teams on ND's schedule lay down for them because they felt sorry for him and they can go undefeated? So the opposing QB's threw him the ball 7 times so he can be tied for second in all of FBS on the only undefeated team in the FBS?

dunno, but are you listening to yourself? he's self motivating himself over a person that never existed? pls wake up.

[TyCobb]

What was it for then? To have the other teams on ND's schedule lay down for them because they felt sorry for him and they can go undefeated? So the opposing QB's threw him the ball 7 times so he can be tied for second in all of FBS on the only undefeated team in the FBS?

dunno, but are you listening to yourself? he's self motivating himself over a person that never existed? pls wake up.

This whole thing is a joke. The only people who are up in arms about all of this are you and the other people who believe everything the media puts out.

[Jetset]

ha. says the person who hasn't read a single detail, listened to any side, and has even gone as far as saying doesn't care about it. you're worse than me, you're just talking about something that you don't know about and don't care about. so why talk? and no one has a defensive tone other than you.

[TyCobb]

Irony..

Anyways, what I have said on this topic comes directly from people quoting me, and as for dropping the link, that was to change the subject off of the tiring miggs/tycobb chat.

[ennui]