I am immensely disappointed that we have had no further
developments in this Te’o story in the last day. Te’o and His People are currently hoping upon
hope that Lance Armstrong and his admission to something we all already knew seven
years ago will take some of the thunder away from the story. My belief is that when they see that this has
failed to make the story go away, they will bring out Ronaiah Tuiasosopo to
fall on the sword on Sunday. Why
Sunday? Most of the rabid dog reporters
will be home and the weekend staffers, largely inexperienced or second rate, will
have to pick up the ball. After some
sham press conference in which a written statement is passed out, they will
place him back in hiding and see if they can wait this thing out. It’ll be great, because they will have him
looking hangdog yet respectful of the situation. I’m thinking a dark suit… Te’o will once again apologize for the “pain
and suffering” he has caused people in yet another prepared statement, and may
even make a donation to some kind of leukemia foundation in hopes of wrapping
it up. There is no chance he will be
made available for an interview until they can hammer out a deal with NBC for
some softball interview deal. Picture
Matt Lauer walking the Notre Dame campus with Te’o while he dodges questions
with highly coached answers. Why
NBC? Because they have the broadcast
rights to Notre Dame Football, and NBC isn’t going to shoot one of their biggest
sports assets in the foot.
The amazing thing is that no one in the national media has
even floated the idea out of him being gay.
I saw the Today Show this morning and watched those dopey talking heads
all question each other with “I can’t understand why he would do this?” and “It’s
so confusing!” Clearly no one wants to
be the first one with their fingerprints on that hot potato. I can’t be the only one out here that
instantly thought “He’s gay…” right? It’s
the only thing that makes sense. As Jay
Mohr said yesterday, “this makes the Kennedy assassination seem simple”. Why is everyone pretending that Te’o being
gay hasn’t even crossed their minds? Something
you should keep in mind as real issues like gun control, defense spending or
abortion are covered by the media is that if they can’t openly discuss a
ridiculous football player’s false identity, how can they possibly present
factual coverage of anything? If you
can’t say what everyone is thinking on Te’o, how can you possibly criticize
defense spending and/or cuts? It’s such
a stupid dance…
At what point will Notre Dame cut bait and run? As boneheads on sports talk radio keep
thinking this is happened so Notre Dame could get more press, Notre Dame has to
feel the heat. For all intents and
purposes, Te’o is now an ex-employee.
What other company would stick their necks out and stay attached to the
personal actions of one of their ex-employees?
At some point someone over there will come to their senses and say “Why
don’t we say this was all his personal life, we don’t have anything to do with
it, and we are all as shocked as you are?”?
There must be lawyers over there howling in protest at how the Athletic
Director has handled this thing. And you
know what? They are right.
Let’s get this Tuiasosopo interview going already! The show must go on!
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