“I can’t  believe my ‘dead girlfriend’ was fake.” Deadspin’s doozy of a story on Notre Dame star Manti Te’o and the girlfriend that wasn’t has been read more than 2 million times this evening, which actually seems like a low number. Today we learned that the name Manti Te’o can now be spoken in the same sentence as Balloon Boy, and plot devices from terrible movies translate to real life sometimes.