As an aside, to those who think he might have been tricked and is not in a gay love affair with the most ridiculous coverup attempt ever, I submit this conversation I made up as evidence to the contrary:
Tuisaposo: "Lol lets invent a fake gf for you."
Te'o: "lmao bro we can troll everyone"
Tuisaposo: "Yea i no rite i can get my friend to do pix and stuff and
ill play the part of your gf no homo lol heh"
Te'o: "hell yeah nothing gay about that"
Tuisaposo: "i am so happy"
Te'o: "lol wut?"
Tuisaposo: "i mean cuz we are gonna troll SO hard heh. but we have to wait for like... a couple years to pull it off, so just play along until i say so, k?"
Te'o: "right, man, nothing gay about having a guy as my fake gf for years, when i could be slamming all that lose boozed up catholic ass out there after each game. i am on. ööööing. board. for the lulz. bffs?"
Tuisaposo: "tee hee >.< X3 ofc silly"
etcetera.