- Can somebody briefly explain a) what Manti Te’o did and b) why I should care?
- Here’s a photo of the sunrise from Mt. Tabaeksan that’s not half bad.
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He got “catfished” and you shouldn’t care because you don’t like sports. http://abcnews.go.com/US/manti-teo-hoax-exposes-catfish-internet-schemes/story?id=18235437
He shouldn’t care because it’s not professional sports. It’s absolutely ridiculous how some college football players are treated like celebrities in the US. It’s just as absurd as getting excited with a minor league baseball or hockey player who doesn’t play for a team in your hometown.
You’re right, everyone is ridiculous for liking college football, the best players, the Heisman Trophy, the NFL, and the draft. How about it’s his warning – not to get catfished, is that better?
I am not ridiculous – because I (due to not being American) don’t like college football.
I think it is corrupt and crazy that American universities offer “sport -football sponsorships” to retards – to gain entry into the university and be given degrees – to which they are not really entitled – just because they can play “a sport” which helps the university gain popularity – it’s shameless and a joke!
many movies exist on this…..
many retard American “English teachers” who got their degree based on a “university football scholarship degree” teach English in Korea (because they have a degree and are American) and cause heaps of problems…
I think we have a candidate for the stupidest post of the year for 2013. It’s early though . . . you’ve still got plenty of time to out-do yourself.
I’m not American, so yes I can look at it from an unbiased point of view. One of my university roommates was one of the top university athletes in Canada, even received one of the few awards given every year for a student who excels in both sports and their studies. Was he a star? Were there alumni throwing cash at him? Was he driving around in a sports car that was loaned to him by a rich benefactor? No. The only thing he got was a 500$ scholarship each semester because he was able to maintain an excellent GPA while playing for the university’s team.
What did Manti Te’o do?
At best, he was stupid and fell in love with an online woman who turned out to be a hoax. He “dated” her for almost 3 years it seems, until she suddenly “died” of leukemia, which then became a national story as the American public found out about this tragedy. This “death” coincided within hours of the death of his real grandmother. A double whammy.
At worst, he was part of the hoax, and played the fake girlfriend angle to gain attention and even try to win sympathy votes to help him try to win college football’s highest honor (he finished second).
As the story emerges, it appears more likely the former case.
let me guess… you were one of those retards who got through university on a sports scholarship – and you coach was Jerry Sandusky ??
Thank you for proving my point!
You don’t mention which sport . . . and that’s a very important aspect. I’m assuming he participated in a sport that doesn’t receive much fanfare, as opposed to a sport like hockey.
It was soccer, but I could also speak about my classmate and my friend’s roommate who won the hockey CIS championship. Same story.
Baekdusan?
Yes, although I mildly vehemently disagree with Robert’s Romanization. Paektusan forever!
Or Tae Baek san?
So you’re saying elite college hockey players in Canada go largely unnoticed?
Yes. But I think part of the reason is that the system is different. If you play for a university team in Canada, it’s likely you didn’t do well enough in the junior major leagues to get drafted and never will. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junior_ice_hockey
Whereas in the US it’s a different story. American university hockey players do get drafted…quite often.
However, despite the fact that Canadians are fanatical about hockey, even junior major league hockey isn’t nearly as commercialized as university football in the US.
So, essentially you’re saying college sports suck in Canada.
My bad. I meant Taebaeksan.
College? That’s for people who want to be plumbers and receptionists. No, I’m saying that the commercialization of it in the US is out of hand. I’m sure gambling has nothing to do with it, eh?
Yes, you are correct, gambling has nothing to do with it.
The American fixation with college sports is deeply rooted in the culture. It used to be pretty innocent, cheering for your middle school or high school in popular sports like football and basketball. Big time college sports has gotten extremely commercialized and is now a big business. The temptation to cheat and bend the rules is too much for some universities to overcome and has tarnished the image of the sport; however, there are still some universities that stay clean and remain successful doing it the right way. In fact this past season several traditional “egghead” schools were fairly successful: Stanford, Northwestern, and Vanderbilt won their bowl games. Notre Dame (ranked #1) and Duke also made it to bowl games but lost.Painting college football with a broad stroke of cynicism just shows ignorance.
ex-commander,
You’re naive if you think gambling has absolutely nothing to do with it.
Hey Someguyinkorea, I must be naive so please elaborate what gambling has to do with the commercialization of college football in America. I’m not being facetious.
If Canada had 250 million more people think of the college sport “commercialization” possibilities. Katie Couric has the Manti Te’o TV exclusive this Thursday, stay tuned. I’d guess SomeguyinKorea would be a good catfisher or hoaxer but I’m not saying either is good.
I’m pretty sure he landed ALL of the top 10 stupidest posts of 2012 and probably each of the last 8 years, but he changed names a lot over the years. Boundless idiocy.
Tens of millions of Americans enjoy watching college sports for the sheer joy of watching their favorite team compete. Only a tiny fraction of them gamble on the games. Linking commercialization with gambling . . . shows you know very, very little about college athletics in the US.
“ I can look at it from an unbiased point of view”
Really? These overly obsessive and fanatical-like postings of yours read like you are both jealous and biased as hell against the likes of these college athletes!
By the way, you might want to pull out your dictionary as the definition of the word, college, is: a. An institution of higher learning that grants the bachelor’s degree in liberal arts or science or both. b. An undergraduate division or school of a university offering courses and granting degrees in a particular field.
So you’re going to tell me you’ve never made a “friendly bet” with your friends?
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