Manti teo gay

The new Netflix documentary “Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist” tells the story of how Manti Te’o was a victim of an elaborate and inhumane catfishing scandal that left him prone to a mean social media society, not to speak of football’s (and America’s) own entrenched homophobia.

Te’o, of course, was the great Notre Dame linebacker who in 2012 consecrated his Heisman finalist season to his girlfriend, Lennay Kekua, who he said died of leukemia before an premature season game.

The challenge was simple: Kekua didn’t exist. She was a collection of stolen photos and a guy named Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, who now identifies as a transsexual woman named Naya. While there had been a true, and apparently dense emotional online and phone relationship (Tuiasosopo was deftly competent to speak in a young woman's voice), there was no girlfriend.

Deadspin.com broke the story in January 2013, as Te’o prepared for the NFL draft, setting off a firestorm of controversy, speculation, jokes, insults, confusion and confrontation that got so ridiculous Te’o establish himself sitting on a couch across from no less than Katie Couric, who tried to corner him.

“Are you gay?” Couric a

Originally published February 26th, 2013

“Are you gay?”

Katie Couric asked the question out deafening, and there was a collective gasp. Until that moment, the majority of the news surrounding Manti Te’o revolved around how a seemingly honest and hard-working, family assigned, and religious player could be duped by someone posing as a girlfriend online. As the story evolved, others questioned whether Te’o was personally complicit in the hoax as an endeavor to drive a growing Heisman campaign. Quietly, there were others favor myself that wondered if it was something else entirely.

Are you gay? You. Reading this. Are you gay? For most of us, sexuality isn’t an issue. It doesn’t impact our jobs, it doesn’t impact our friends. For the most part, we choose where we work, we choose our friends, and for most of us, our personal lives aren’t on display. But that question is coming up for Te’o again this week. The media is starting to wonder louder, the calls are coming into sports radio, and the rumors are that it’s a “concern” with NFL executives. A concern? The NFL should grasp that Manti Te’o

Do the Eagles Want to Know if Manti Te’o Is Gay?

And is it any of their business?

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Are the Philadelphia Eagles one of the NFL teams trying to find out if Manti Te’o is gay? Suspicions that Te’o is hiding something about his sexuality persist, even after he told Katie Couric that he is not same-sex attracted. And Mike Florio, a well-connected reporter for Pro Football Talk and NFL Sports, says that several teams are trying to earn the answer to that question before the NFL draft. If the notify is correct, any team actively investigating the sexuality of a potential employee would be violating federal law.

This week, Te’o showed up at the NFL combine to try to impress future employers, but didn’t. Te’o ran the 40-yard dash in 4.8 seconds—fast for normal human beings, but lumbering for an NFL pro prospect. Te’o’s stock plummeted, possibly out of the first round and into the second. The Philadelphia Eagles have the fourth select in the second round.

According to Florio, it’s not just the turtle on the track that injure Te’o, but the elephant in the room. Any team th

(CBS) Apparently NFL teams aren't buying Manti Te'o's declaration that he's not gay.

After the fake girlfriend hoax exploded in January, Katie Couric asked Te'o if he was gay and the former Notre Dame linebacker nervously responded: "No, far from it, far from it."

But according to Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio, NFL teams are still wondering if Te'o is indeed gay and they want to know the answer.

"Here's the elephant in the room for the teams and it shouldn't matter but we have to step aside from the rest of reality and walk into the unique industry that is the NFL," Florio said on The Dan Patrick Show Monday. "Teams want to know whether Manti Te'o is gay. They just want to know. They want to understand because in an NFL locker room, it's a different society. It shouldn't be that way."

Florio said he didn't think teams actually asked Te'o about his sexuality when they met with him over the weekend.

"It's been described to me as the proverbial elephant in the room and I don't think anyone knows how to solve this dilemma yet," he said. "It's just that they want to know what they're getting. They want to know what issues they may be dealing with down the road. We just assumed that