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Manti Te’o Girlfriend Hoax To Be Featured on ESPN’s ‘Backstory’

I’ve mentioned this before, but the one Notre Dame game I’ve been to was the 2012 win over Michigan.

I’ve mentioned this before, but the one Notre Dame game I’ve been to was the 2012 win over Michigan. It was the Irish’s first home contest after the apparent death of Manti Te’o’s girlfriend, Lennay Kekua. The student cheering section waved leis in support of Te’o. But no one, including Te’o, suspected they were being had, and now, the ESPN series “Backstory” is ready to examine it.

John Buhler of FanSided gave a nice reaction to this news and mentioned what many of us still think about the whole thing years later. The revelation that Te’o had been catfished was one of the most bizarre bombshells in the history of sports. Fortunately for Te’o, the story had faded from the public consciousness by the start of his NFL career.

Enough time has passed that this hoax can be examined with all available information. Some lessons are bound to be learned, or at least relearned, in this documentary. The obvious one is you probably should actually meet someone before claiming to be in a relationship with them. The rest will be realized as we watch this story unfold all over again.

Irish in the NFL: Te’o Back With Saints

Manti Te’o is back to work in the NFL as the former Heisman Trophy runner-up is going back to work with the New Orleans Saints. Originally a fourth round pick of the Chargers, Te’o spent the last two seasons with New Orleans where he recorded 80 …

Manti Te’o is back to work in the NFL as the former Heisman Trophy runner-up is going back to work with the New Orleans Saints.

Originally a fourth round pick of the Chargers, Te’o spent the last two seasons with New Orleans where he recorded 80 tackles and seven tackles for loss in that time.

Te’o’s signing likely has to do with Kiko Alonso leaving the most-recent Saints game, a Thanksgiving Night win over the Falcons, with a thigh injury.

Te’o joins a roster thought by many to be as good as there is in the NFC. His girlfriend (pause for dramatic effect) Jovi Nicole posted her excitement of the news on Instagram late Tuesday afternoon.

Te’o will turn 29 on January 26.