The Manti Te'o Netflix Doc is About More Than Just Catfishing

If you think this could've never happened to you, think again.

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Former Heisman Trophy finalist Manti Te'o has heard all of the jokes, seen all of the memes

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cried all of the tears he could over being the first (and most famous) celebrity victim of catfishing.

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More than nine years after Deadspin exposed the truth about Te'o dating a woman who didn't exist

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he embattled and embarrassed former football prodigy is finally telling his side of the story in the new Netflix doc Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn't Exist.

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A scandal doesn't captivate mainstream media for more than a news segment unless it involves someone of near-mythic levels of fame

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which Te'o possessed between 2009-2012.

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The Netflix doc drives home the accomplishments— 2012 Heisman Award finalist

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