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Crain & Cone

Manti Te’o Documentary Review

Crain & Cone

On3

Sports

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Manti Te'o's story went viral when it all went down. We react to Netflix's documentary.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, there's a sports documentary that is making waves on Netflix right now.

0:06.2

It's the story of former Notre Dame and NFL linebacker Mantiteo and him getting catfished

0:14.6

by a actual football player and it made national headlines because let's start, Cone, Blaine,

0:23.7

bring y'all in here as well, jump in whatever.

0:25.8

Let's start.

0:26.8

Mantiteo was an unbelievable player at Notre Dame.

0:28.7

Both of them flip resurrect Notre Dame back to respectability again after they had struggled.

0:33.2

He's a big time accrued and ended up choosing Notre Dame over USC a bunch of different places.

0:38.5

And so he's there, he's doing well, finds a girl on Facebook, they strike up a relationship

0:44.0

at least he thought it was a girl, finds a person on Facebook, they strike up a relationship.

0:48.8

Yeah.

0:49.8

And he ends up getting catfish, not knowing obviously.

0:52.6

So the girl pretended, and it was actually a guy, like I said, pretended to die the same

0:59.6

day that Mantiteo's grandmother died, okay?

1:02.9

And it made national news because Mantiteo's story went everywhere.

1:07.0

It was a redemption story after that.

1:09.1

Mantite really believed it, you know, it was on game day.

1:11.6

You have people in Congress talking about it, giving him condolences, turns out it was

1:17.3

your straight up catfish, like going on Tinder and getting catfish.

1:20.6

But this was elaborate, elaborate, and in-depth.

1:24.7

To the point where when the person doing the cat fishing was pretending they were dying

1:30.8

after being in a car wreck, they actually had pretended to be another person and brought

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