Manti Te’o was Catfished? Wait, what’s that? [View all]

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As Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick attempted to explain the elaborate hoax that caused star linebacker Manti Te’o to believe in the life, love and death of his online girlfriend Lennay Kekua, he referenced a movie called “Catfish.”

"Catfish" was a cult movie, one not a lot of people saw, but was turned into a reality TV show on MTV.

It also scared the few who did see it.

The premise of the movie, which premiered in 2010, was this: A man named Nev Schulman fell in love with a girl after establishing an online and telephonic relationship with her. He never meets her, knows only what she tells him and gleans the rest from photos and posts on Facebook.

Schulman’s cousin and friend make a documentary of the entire relationship. At some point, the relationship comes to a hilt and he decides to drive to her hometown to meet face-to-face. What he finds is not the woman he thought he knew.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/manti-te-o-catfished-wait-023904245--ncaaf.html

Makes me want to see the movie...