BLOG: Catfish, Notre Dame's Manti Te'o and the Super Bowl

So I've learned a new, hip term in the past few days.  "Catfishing."  Basically, it's people creating a false persona online and luring someone (or multiple people) to fall in love with the online (i.e., fake) version of the person posting online.

My daughter showed me a weekly show on MTV in which people conducting an online romance agree to meet on camera.  You can guess the weekly outcome:  one person is going to have their heart crushed.  In the episode I watched, a young man thought he had fallen in love with a cute, blonde girl in a town near his own home.   Turns out the cute girl was a gay man.  If you are entertained by human misery, this (and other) MTV shows are just for you!

Of course, we're all learning this new term due to the controversy surrounding the fictional girlfriend of Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o.

Now here's a fictional Internet guy we can all love:  Eric Harbaugh, lesser known brother of Jim and John Harbaugh, the real brothers who will make history on February 3rd by coaching against each other in the Super Bowl.  Talk about family pressure!