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Message: [QUOTE="The General, post: 499388, member: 1150"] My best theory at this point... Te'o became friends with an online girl he thought was really attractive. They clicked despite never meeting. He began to embellish the online relationship, with friends, family, teammates, ignoring the fact that she always had an excuse to not actually see him. Perhaps to him these excuses were plausible considering their distance, his schedule and her illness. And as someone said above she could say she didn't have an iphone or a cam. Maybe he would ask for other pics and she came up with an excuse for that too. It's possible Te'o was so happy to have someone he liked that he didn't want to rock the boat. Ignorance is bliss. But even if this is true and Te'o is just a naive Mormon dope who doesn't understand that a real relationship involves more than texts and facebook, he still lied his ass off. He made up several stories to glamorize his online relationship. Hey it's fine to tell a tall tale to teammates or friends, maybe even embellish it to family. But when you start making up stories that are going to run in SI, etc... you have entered into sociopathic narcissist territory. I believe he may have believed some of the things he said because he WANTED to believe them. The alternative would be to face the fact that he was a complete boob and had been totally hustled. Deep down he had to know that if you have never met a girl, her family, held her damn hand or exchanged some recent pics with her, she probably isn't who she says she is. I'm sure every internet chat room is populated by 99% mutants who say they are supermodels. By the time he realized this he was up crick. He wanted attention for dating this beautiful Polynesian girl. And he got it. When she "passed" he wanted more attention. There is no question there were grumblings in the locker room about the realness and depth of the relationship. Te'o is an attention whore (according to an unnamed teammate). I'm sure his teammates, only one of whom I can name (Gholston? is he real?) really enjoyed his over-blown gf story that detracted from the things they were accomplishing on the field. Te'o may be a naive, trusting, boob who has never been in a real relationship and got catfished. I'm not sure. But he is without question a liar of epic proportions. We all know guys like this. One day they say they are trying out for the NFL, the next they say they are banging a model, when really they are just some clown from your town who creates an alternative reality to cope with being a nobody. Only Te'o IS going to the NFL and COULD bang a model. To me it sounds like he didn't need to lie, he had to. Sociopathic narcissism. [/QUOTE]

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