Kind of a boring Friday night for me. Everyone is asleep, and I just watched the Dateline special on Tiger. I find this whole thing to be really fascinating on so many levels, but out of everything that's come from this spectacle, I have to be completely honest in that the crapiest part of this whole mess for me is that he's walking away from Golf. I'm pretty sure that his "indefinite" leave won't be a permanent one, but this guy is a once-in-a-lifetime athlete in his prime, and the greatest player (IMO) in the history of the game. There is no single athlete that I enjoy watching more than Tiger. Golf without Tiger becomes somewhat ordinary. People will think that this is absurd, and I would especially expect for women to be the most outraged, but let's put this into perspective a bit. Tiger cheated on his wife, PERIOD! The details that continue to leak are outrageous, and what he did was obviously wrong, but at the end of the day......He cheated on his wife and that's really it. I don't think he did anything that should cast him as a villain in the public eye, and I don't think that his sponsors should drop him. Tiger's sponsors pay him because he is a winner on the golf course and a dominant one at that. He's never sold anyone with his bubbly personality or likability as an individual. People love his greatness, his work ethic, and his insatiable hunger to always win. Does cheating on his spouse impact any of this? I don't think it does. Tiger made a mistake, but it wasn't cheating on his wife. Tiger's mistake was getting married. Many people are going to cast him as a deviant and be disgusted by the utter mention of his name, but those who love Tiger love the guy on the golf course, and I don't think cheating on his wife is an adequate reason to no longer support him as a fan. I know it's selfish, but I hope he's at Augusta in April above everything else. As curious as I may be about new details of his story, I think it's equally cool that he's giving the scummy media nothing directly.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Tiger Mania and some other stuff....
Kind of a boring Friday night for me. Everyone is asleep, and I just watched the Dateline special on Tiger. I find this whole thing to be really fascinating on so many levels, but out of everything that's come from this spectacle, I have to be completely honest in that the crapiest part of this whole mess for me is that he's walking away from Golf. I'm pretty sure that his "indefinite" leave won't be a permanent one, but this guy is a once-in-a-lifetime athlete in his prime, and the greatest player (IMO) in the history of the game. There is no single athlete that I enjoy watching more than Tiger. Golf without Tiger becomes somewhat ordinary. People will think that this is absurd, and I would especially expect for women to be the most outraged, but let's put this into perspective a bit. Tiger cheated on his wife, PERIOD! The details that continue to leak are outrageous, and what he did was obviously wrong, but at the end of the day......He cheated on his wife and that's really it. I don't think he did anything that should cast him as a villain in the public eye, and I don't think that his sponsors should drop him. Tiger's sponsors pay him because he is a winner on the golf course and a dominant one at that. He's never sold anyone with his bubbly personality or likability as an individual. People love his greatness, his work ethic, and his insatiable hunger to always win. Does cheating on his spouse impact any of this? I don't think it does. Tiger made a mistake, but it wasn't cheating on his wife. Tiger's mistake was getting married. Many people are going to cast him as a deviant and be disgusted by the utter mention of his name, but those who love Tiger love the guy on the golf course, and I don't think cheating on his wife is an adequate reason to no longer support him as a fan. I know it's selfish, but I hope he's at Augusta in April above everything else. As curious as I may be about new details of his story, I think it's equally cool that he's giving the scummy media nothing directly.
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