Come on Mati, tell it like it is. This whole sorry sounded fishy to me from the start. A college educated guy, good looking, masculine, athletic, sweet, is taken for a "ride around the block" by someone who was his girl friend, who suddenly dies, he said he met; then recants, his parents said he met, she stood him up; he got scared to met her, talked to for hours on the phone every night, falling asleep on the phone with (sleeping with) pictures of whom are not her, and now a man claiming to have hoaxed Mati, playing to be a woman, but he cant make his voice sound right on camera? Come on give me a break.
Not that I really care what Mati's Sexuality is, but to me the biggest story here is a football player, who I feel is most likely gay is having to lie to himself, and the entire nation about something that really doesn't matter just because of our puritanical vision of sexuality. The media is riding this for all its worth, and its not going to stop until something bad happens. Most likely when they do expose the truth that Mati is gay, and the man doing the "hoaxing" is his lover, and because of sociatial pressures, he does something that everyone will regret.
Here is what I think went down. Mati is either gay or bi. He is a good Christian/Mormon kid. Good family, good upbringing, college football hero, who has allot going for him, and most likely will be a pro star someday. Mati, wanting to fit in with the other guys in the locker room, possibly even taking some kidding/teasing from teammates about not having a girlfriend, makes one up. Not necessarily intentionally at the start, but just says he has one, maybe even talking about a boyfriend as a girlfriend. Eventually the friends/teammates start to wonder who she is, since they never see him with anyone, so he asks a close female friend to call and leave him some messages, he also finds some pictures of a girl that is pretty, and lives a reasonable distance away, so no one will be able to meet her. All of the late night, and all night phone conversations with her are with his actual boyfriend, and the thing goes well for sometime, but finally it becomes too much of a hassle for the two of them to keep up the charade, so what better way than to "kill" her off...(kind of sounds like a soap opera), when a star becomes too much of a problem they "kill off" the character, no fuss no muss, end of story.
The problem began when Dead Spin dug a little deeper, bringing this story to the front page, and uncovering the discrepancies in it. The little lie, just as most lies do, grew and he had to tell another lie to cover the first, and another, and then another. I don't think it would be too hard to record voice messages after the fact and changing the date to an earlier time. I think all that would have to be done would be to change the date on the phone, so that it didn't set from the network automatically, and then set your own time, maybe on both phones, and then call and record the message, hang up and then do it all over again to record different times and dates.
I don't know if this is the actual story, but we will see. I think we haven't heard the end of this, and I don't think we will for sometime. If this is the story, or something like it, I feel sad for Mati, in that he is having to hide behind a lie, all for being who he is, and what America expects from its football players, and most athletes in general. We may not hear the end of this for sometime, maybe years, not until it is acceptable to be gay and be an athlete.
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