Is Manti Te'o a victim of an elaborate hoax, or a co-conspirator? That we don't know . . . but let's go with what we do. Here are the Top Things We're Learning About Manti Te'o.
--Even though his girlfriend doesn't exist, Brent Musburger still finds her smokin'.
--He's the biggest embarrassment to Notre Dame football in the past fifteen years since, well, Notre Dame football.
--Sadly, even though his girlfriend isn't real, his performance in the BCS game was.
--Those tattoos all over his arms? Henna.
--He'll admit to everything next week during an interview with Oprah.
--He once left a motivational speech by Lou Holtz covered in slobber.
--He claims he wasn't in on the hoax. So he's not only naïve, he's a liar, too.
--He absolutely will not say "Candyman" five times in front of a mirror.
--His team may not have won the BCS Title, but the imaginary post-game sex was dynamite!
--To this day he believes Obama was sitting in that chair that Clint Eastwood was yelling at.
--When you stand on one side of him and tap his other shoulder, he has nightmares for a week.
--He's been working through all of this with the help of an imaginary therapist.
--In high school, he used to use the "my girlfriend just died" excuse at least once a month to skip classes.
--In the past year, he's bought 12 bridges.
--"Manti" is Hawaiian for "plummeting NFL draft stock."
--Notre Dame fans believe he's an innocent victim. And they're ALWAYS sane and rational when it comes to their football team.
--He LOVES it when you run up to him and use your best Harry Belafonte voice to sing, "TE'O! TE'O! DAYLIGHT COME AND ME WAN' GO HOME!"
--It's now being learned his dead grandmother also didn't exist. And neither did his dead grandfather, parents, siblings, cousins, uncles or conjoined twin.
--On the list of famous people with the initials "MT," he's somehow a better storyteller than Mark Twain and more delusional than Mike Tyson.
--Over the course of his college career, he had 427 tackles. And 864 fake relationships.
--It's TOTALLY possible to have a meaningful online relationship with someone you've never met in person. Case in point: Myself and Jenna Jameson.
--His family built the soundstage where Neil Armstrong faked the moon landing.
--In his free time, he enjoys fishing, golf and sending all his money to an upstanding young gentleman from the Nigerian Consulate.
--He easily falls for things that turn out to not really exist. Like true love.
--He stole the idea of being a publicly humiliated Mormon from Mitt Romney.
--He says he got tricked by the Internet. You think a Hawaiian would be better at SURFING.
--He believes a lot of dumb things. You know, like "Notre Dame had a chance against Alabama."
--He decided to kill off his imaginary girlfriend when she stopped having imaginary sex with him.
--His fake girlfriend's Twitter account was actually run by a man he knew. In other words, there's one big gay reason for all of this.
--His favorite episode of "The Brady Bunch" was the one where Jan had her imaginary boyfriend George Glass.
--If you have a bridge to sell him, do it.
--He didn't get into Notre Dame based on his IQ.
--His favorite musical artists are Milli Vanilli and Ashlee Simpson.
--In Samoan, "Manti Te'o" means "I believe anything."
--He didn't know Skype existed, evidently.






