stevestojan

I love IPAs. And I have yet to have a 120 minute. It is supposed to be the holy grail of DFH but I honestly enjoy the 60 minute more than the 90 minute. The 90 has a sweet aftertaste (to me at least). So knowing that, my assumption is that 120, despite its ~14-17%ABV, will be very sweet.

Ok. I've had a couple days and currently 3 Dog Fish Head 90 minutes to think this over. And here's my current thoughts on it. In other words, THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED in the mind of stevestojan: Manti, a Mormon who doesn't drink, and is a good kid, goes to what is the equivalent of South Buffalo when it comes to a drinking school. He wants nothing to do with the party scene for the above reason. He stays home as his friends/teammates go out. Therefore, he's labeled an introvert. For reasons that all of us with a penis know, Manti still wants female contact. Gets an email from a girl who said "hey we met/we made eye contact after the 'fill in the blank' game and I'd love to talk")After god knows how many emails, IMs, whatnot he develops a relationship. Not wanting to be the "most available man in sports without a girl" he tells friends that he has a girl that, as others have joked, "goes to another school." (Or lives somewhere else) Manti, in an attempt to keep his "manhood" asks his dad "Hey pop, if someone asks about my girlfriend be a pal and just say 'yeah we've met her, great girl' just so I don't have to explain anything." Many lies are told to Manti, from why she can't Skype to why he can't come visit her, but being a trusting man of God (whichever one he chooses to believe it) he "falls" for it. THIS point is obviously, and with good reason, is the toughest one to believe. But again, love turns us stupid. She "dies." He's as upset as you could think, especially since the scammers picked her death date to be the same day his grandma died. Yes, he finds out he's been scammed and doesn't go to Notre Dame and/or ESPN immediately, which pisses some people off. Weird how he doesn't want to tell the world his "love life" was nothing but a sham. Naive? You bet. This is me giving the benefit of the doubt after reading everything I can about this. Do what you will.

FAKE! I don't think they let girlfriends on the field during games, plus if you look close you can see where they photoshopped her next to him.

I'd be real excited to be their first pick. "So I guess I was the best you could do, huh?"

Take my man card, but that is the cutest picture I've ever seen.

So cryptic the last couple days. Not really what?

I swear to god if this freak show thread ends up in PPP, I'm gonna be pissed!

This specific point might have merit. I mean, in college how many of us only talked to many of the girls we did (at least initially) because of the wonderful word BOOZE. Since Manti can't drink (which is likely why he didn't go to too many Irish Catholic College parties!), he may have been shy around women. That said, still a lot of **** that doesn't add up.

Here's what I'm missing. I'm a HUGE fan on Manti Teo. I'm in the minority when I say I would (still!) want to draft him at #8. HOWEVER, why are there so many folks here trying to rationalize this? "He had an online girlfriend, he was an introvert, and he was embarrassed when he found out it was a scam." WHAT?!? Read all the facts (that we know so far). It seems an Internet message board is probably not the best place to get opinions on this story as many of you are turning blind eyes to some really strange "coincidences" and saying this is somewhat " normal?" NONE OF THIS IS NORMAL!!

Depending on price, sure. I pay $250 for Sunday Ticket really only for the Bills games. So that's over $15 a game. I paid $175 I think for center ice, $50 this year, so that's clearly less, but yes I would. Especially if I could pay ala cart for other channels and have my cable bill be $40 a month for the 6 channels I watch vs $90 for 200 channels I don't.

Up until right now I had no idea joesixpack and joe_the_6_pack were two different posters. Guess I've never seen you two post back to back.

If Bill Polian says he's a top ten pick, no offense fellas, but holy **** do I trust his opinion more than anyone's here.

I know when things are new, it's easy to call it the coolest, best, greatest, etc... But, has anyone heard of a more bizarre story ever in sports history? Is this THE most bizarre story involving a big name athlete you have ever heard?

Dr Neil Clark Warren?

So meeting someone who didn't exist is ok if it's only once?

W. T. F.

Ask me if I want a guy who may have stabbed two people. I think the Ravens are OK with that seeing as they are playing Sunday. If he leads us to the playoffs, he can have as many fake dead girlfriends as he wants.

As opposed to out of his...

3 responses using the word Snuffalupagus posted in the same minute. Normally that would be weird. Given the topic, it's status quo.

If I recall, Snuffalupagus was Big Birds imaginary friend.

Bill Polian on ESPN right now said he's certainly a top 10 draft pick.

I do.

Whichever way you feel, it would be in your best interest to search twitter for "Te'o". It's times like these when the Internet shines its brightest: @ndyWillis: I hope they bring Te'o's girlfriend back in season 3. @funnyordie: Manti Te'o will meet even faker girls once he's an NFL millionaire. @EvilMikeTomlin: Manti Te'o just changed his Facebook status to 'its complicated' @FauxJohnMadden: On the bright side for Manti Te'o, his relationship was probably better than any Taylor Swift has had. @clubtrillion: Somewhere Donald Trump is trying to make a connection between Te'o (Hawaiian) faking a GF & Obama (Hawaiian) faking his birth certificate. And my favorite yet: @DConDelight: "Manti Te'o may have just pulled the 3rd grade "I have a girlfriend. She just goes to another school," prank on the entire United States."

Joe, for what it's worth, based on your Internet posts, I think you're beautiful.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ktlincoln/hear-manti-teo-speaking-about-his-fake-dead-girlf Manti's interview about her. Sure doesn't sound like an Internet relationship.....