Project Rebuild Tiger
The voice speaks from beyond the grave, in a tone of ultimate authority. It’s Tiger Woods’ late father Earl, giving him an old-fashioned tongue-lashing for his misdeeds in the startling new Masters-timed commercial from Nike: “I want to find out what your thinking was,” Earl Woods is heard to say as his famous son stares manfully into the camera. “I want to find out what your feelings are. And did you learn anything?”
The commercial is genius. Kudos to Nike.
But let’s consider where this ad came from — and what it is telling us.
First, remember that Tiger Woods has two jobs. One is professional golfer; the other is spokesmodel/hero. The second is actually his primary job and the one that delivers most of his income. Indeed, if before the scandal broke he had suffered a career-ending injury, he could have continued to work as a pitchman indefinitely.
If Woods’ guilt about his contemptible behavior affected his career as a golfer, it never showed before and there’s no particular reason to think that having covered himself in shame is going to keep him from again winning the Masters or other major tournaments. If the guy can win the U.S. Open with a broken leg he knows how to tune out distractions.
Nike knows this — everybody knows it — but the fairy tale it is marketing is very different. It is that of a good man who somehow fell into a swamp of “addiction,” wisely sought “therapy,” “counseling,” and “rehab” for it, suffered mightily — and then bounced back from the bottom to win more trophies. This Nike will spin as his ultimate redemption and hurry on, as if being a great golfer absolves you of being a sorry human being.
Cheating on your wife with every D-cupped cocktail waitress and stripper from Augusta to Pebble Beach is not a symptom of “addiction,” which reframes it as a disease. It’s a choice, one that reveals the true character of Woods to be that of a careless, selfish, swine. Regardless of what happens on the links, his endorsement career ought to be over. His contracts, which contain boilerplate morals clauses, were nullified by his adultery. If he continues to star in TV commercials and magazine ads — even if his confident smile is replaced by the chastened frowny face he unconvincingly sports in the new Nike spot — it cheapens the idea of what a hero is. It says to every boy and girl across the land that who you are, down deep, doesn’t matter. What you do to your loved ones doesn’t matter. All that matters is the image you create.
Early in tiger’s career a friend of mine made the comment that once he becomes a husband and father those responsibilities will wear on his game. I surprised when they didn’t. But then he never really became a husband and father.
Thank you for this column. I couldn’t agree more and the most damning part is the last paragraph. Tiger worshipers need to stop and think. The show of support and adulation for a man who has harmed his family beyond repair, is disgraceful. The saddest thing of all is the mirror into the moral fiber of this country.
You are certainly right that this has exposed unpleasant things about the moral fiber of our society. But I think there is another lesson here as well, one that is much more positive.
It seems to me that the reaction to Tiger’s behavior has been overwhelmingly negative. Most people are not claiming it’s no big deal, as many, many people did with President Clinton. (And some of Clinton’s behavior was arguably much worse; there is credible evidence of unwanted sexual advances and even rape.) Instead they are expressing outrage and holding Tiger accountable. And Tiger is responding not with lies but with candor.
So I see a huge silver lining here–it seems to me that the zeitgeist is changing on the subject of adultery, away from the anything-goes mentality. I see the uproar over Tiger’s despicable behavior as good news, that as a society we are finally beginning to place *more* value on character. Of course these things change slowly, but it looks to me as if they are changing for the better.
Very well said. Audacity of adultery is all we need to be shoved at us with everything else going on in America. Golf is a marvelous contrast — and watching it has been for me an escape to a venue of integrity an moral high values. Augusta National Chairman Billy Payne, with admirable reserve, gave the kind of fatherly advice Tiger should listen to:
http://www.majorschampionships.com/masters/2010/news/payne.cfm
The Nike commercial may be advertising genius, but for me it caused me to turn the final corner on Tiger and give up thinking he really cares at all. I have also decided never to buy another Nike product because the ad is disturbingly corruptive. I cannot imagine what it does for kids who watch it — this is their mentor, yuk.
Woods is an excellent golf technician…no argument there. But, having observed him spitting on the golf course, throwing temper tantrums & bending clubs around trees, dropping ” F-bombs” after missed shots and generally exhibiting a puerile petulance when things aren’t going exactly his way, Woods
is hardly a role model/sports hero. Despite his skill, he will never approach the dignity and class of a Nicklaus, Palmer, or a Watson. Strangely enough, his personality traits remind me of some of those shared with our current White House resident.
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R.H.
“I’m a philanderer but buy Nike anyway” probably didn’t go over well, so what else can he do? It’s slick public relations, but in the end, he’s still a cheat, and by extension, a liar. I don’t play golf, I like New Balance running shoes, and I wouldn’t own a Buick, so he doesn’t affect me at all.
I find the attempted rehabilitation of Elliot Spitzer far more alarming. Here we have an abusive, arrogant, unindicted felon attempting to worm his way back into political power. No sale here, either, but Sptizer is dangerous.
I never liked Woods. Like one of the earlier posters, his petulant manners and temper fits turned me off him in a major way. His adultery with what looks like dozens of women turned my stomach. Just think of the STDs he was exposed to and brought back to his wife.
I had to check the URL at the top of my browser. Had I wandered into MoveOn.org, HuffPo or Kos by mistake?
The last two paragraphs are simply the author’s fantasies stated as fact without support. Thank you, Mr. Boot, for using your omniscience to illuminate the contents of another man’s soul for us mere mortals.
PJM is following LGF into a left-leaning shark jumping, as many recent articles are indistinguishable from the drivel found at Dailykos or Huffpoo. I guess they’re just taking a cue from our fearless leader, and following the money trail.
Seems to me like the author wants to reveal truth as opposed the coverup.
This article does that.
Do you have a problem with that?
Being sorry for getting caught isn’t exactly a redeeming quality.
I disagree with this uncharitable assessment of Tiger’s motives and concerns. It certainly is not true that his primary job is pitchman and not golfer. Say what you want about his character, he certainly cares much more about golf than about money. It’s absurd to think otherwise.
I heard Tiger speaking about this commercial in the press conference yesterday, and it seemed to me that he was quite sincere about its message. He said that his dad is still with him in spirit and that he has relied on this as part of his emotional recovery (my words, not his).
I was disgusted and disappointed to learn about Tiger’s behavior. But the sordid details about the clubs where these trysts take place and about the people whose profession it is to set such things up make it very clear that this sort of behavior is not very unusual. What’s different about Tiger is that he got caught. And that we had higher standards for him than we have for other luminaries.
His reputation will never be the same. He is paying that price for his behavior–a price that is not being paid by many, many other people who have done the same thing. This is indeed a form of suffering. Not that he didn’t bring it on himself–he did, and he admits it. But that doesn’t mean he hasn’t suffered.
I admire the way he has handled a very difficult situation. He has not made excuses. His statements have been very appropriate. He has accepted responsibility for his behavior in no uncertain terms, and has said he wants to become a better person. Might this not be true? Is there any evidence that it isn’t?
Of course his sponsors are doing damage control. Any business saddled with a PR problem is going to do damage control. Blaming that on Tiger, and using it to twist the knife further, seems like bad form to me.
Of course, since his primary job is as a pitchman (as you yourself admit), it’s part and parcel of his job to be convincing with whatever he says.
Therefore, I’m gonna take his statements with many grains of salt.
And this consumer will use his freedom of choice (which we still have in this nation, at least in most sectors of the economy) to never purchase anything that Eldrick Tont (any wonder why he went by “Tiger”) Woods tries to sell me.
Of course he’s owning up to it! At this point if he doesn’t it’d be an obvious lie.
Fact is that if he wasn’t caught I doubt he’d have enlightened us.
You can’t give cred to someone for singing the truth when reality has left them no room to do anything but sing long and loud.
I heard Tiger speaking about this commercial in the press conference yesterday, and it seemed to me that he was quite sincere about its message. He said that his dad is still with him in spirit and that he has relied on this as part of his emotional recovery (my words, not his).
Yes, I’m sure he sounded very sincere and contrite. Sociopaths, domestic abusers, political tyrants, con men, and career criminals can all sound absolutely convincing as well. Talk is cheap. Only time will tell if this is actual contrition, or if this is the contrition of the thief who’s not actually sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he’s going to jail.
I’m strongly anti-divorce, but in this case, I think Elin should have kicked his keister to the curb. There’s a point at which it stops being a marriage.
Woods is on par with Barkley, Jordan, Magic….most people don’t give a hoot about anything but his golf game.
Infact, I don’t know any one, anyone…that cares about his private life..only his golf game is of concern.
People were interviewed at the Masters…all were smiles about Wood’s game..nothing else…
He is like our president and the above mentioned athletes…an elitist, above the fray of the common folk, why is that you suppose?
Tiger’s personal life should be none of my business. I would much prefer to just watch him play golf and then forget about him the rest of the time. But his personal life was made my business when Nike, et al, told me Tiger was a positive role model- a family guy- then put Tiger’s face on products like razors and cars and clothing and sports drinks, hoping I would buy them.
It was a lie. I hate lies.
His worst influence on golf is that he plays too slow!
The small plane pulling the banner at The Masters today was priceless: “Tiger, did you mean bootyism?”
His dad was as big a cheating slimeball as Tiger is.
Nike, when you need to run home before your wife gets back!
Woods is, though a fine golfer, a flawed and limited human being. To serve the purposes of media and advertisers he was turned into a saint and then into a devil; if they please, they will rehabilitate him. He smugly profits from it all and is certainly no one to feel sorry for. But the Tiger Woods phenomenon exists for the purpose of selling things. To despair over the state of the republic because of his antics is like losing sleep over a soap-opera star’s becoming a scientologist. Get a life.
“a flawed and limited human being”
Who isn’t? Name somebody who isn’t.
I’d like to like Tiger again. All I can picture as he’s talking now, however, is a leering guy with his pants around his ankles banging a drunken waitress out in the parking lot, against the hood of his car. It’s not a pretty sight.
Why are we always so surprised when yet another celebrity fails to live up to their public personna? Why do we insist sports celebrities be role models anyway? How many times does this same scenario have to happen before we wise up?
This article is quite self righteous. Tiger hasn’t suffered? He seems pretty humiliated by all this to me. That he has to get on with his life in full view of the media is unavoidable. And then to question whether he has a soul? John Boot is thoroughly unchristian, and we are wise to reject his voyeuristic intense hatred for something more productive, like forgiving and forgetting.
Should we reject Tiger as a hero? Sure, sports stars shouldn’t be heroes anyway. Should we continue to attack Tiger’s character like the undercover John Boot? Why, because we’ve got no sins of our own to atone for?
Amen. Both Tiger and Jesse James seem to bring out the self-righteous hypocrites in people. Why can’t we have this much rage for Charlie Sheen?
Agreed. This diatribe reminds me of two of Christ’s lessons:
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
Judge not, lest ye be judged.
“John Boot,” you lambast someone else whose personal failings are on display for the whole world to see, yet you don’t even have the courage to use your own name on the byline because of your “conservative” bent in a “liberal media.” Presumably that’s to shield yourself from retaliation by those in the liberal media. Doesn’t that strike you as disingenuous at best, hypocritical at worst?
This is what happens when people elevate others to hero status. If you think someone is above behaving like a human being, you will forever be disappointed.
I have only one question for Woods. Did you get behind the wheel of your car after consuming alcohol? I think you were given a pass by the FPH.
Tiger is an entertainer, and as such, there is no such thing as bad publicity. The end result of this whole thing? Greater fame for Tiger, more money for the PGA because of higher TV ratings, and increased sales of golf gear by Tiger.
Even the little swedish au-pair, who is one of these women herself, stands to benefit.
Where are the losers?
His children?
When I was a kid, my father’s store had a cartoon in the service department, in which an obviously angry woman was at a service counter. The service manager was talking to her, saying “so, if we give you a full refund and free replacement, fire the technician, shoot the manager, close the store and burn the premises to the ground, will that satisfy you?”
Look, Tiger has, at this point, been humiliated, lost millions of dollars, still may have an ugly divorce, has appeared in a TV commercial in which the entire content is his receiving a verbal spanking from his revered and adored late father, and has to put up with snark on banner ads from airplanes making fun of his religion.
That’s enough. Get over it. Move on with your life.
Doofus humiliated himself. Good gawd!
Exactly.
You will note that there are practically no women at the Masters. All the white guys in the stands are yelling to Tiger “Did you have fun with your neighbors daughter”?
Okay, I read (and sorry I don’t have the link) that his father was also an adulterer and that was the reason for the separation and divorce of his parents. So using his father’s voice to reprimand him sounds like Earl is trying to warn him from some place other than heaven??
It doesn’t matter because his highly paid ho of a wife is still with him proving that none of it matters.
Well all of this is as predictable as the morning sun rising in the East.
Movie stars and sports celebrities aren’t heroes. They never have been and never will be heroes.
If you’re sad that Tiger Woods isn’t your heroic anymore, then you are twice the fool: first for thinking that simply because he excelled at professional golf that he was a hero, and second for whining about your sudden discovery of his lack of heroic character which he never had in the first place.
The man just strikes me as creepy. Nike is beat out by the competition in my household and that looks like a permanent thing now.
Celebs and politicians screaming “sex addiction” when they get caught cheating is such a crock. They’re not addicted to sex – they can get that from their wives; they’re addicted to adultery & philandering, and the “thrill” of getting away with it with no repercussions.
Oh my, but what repercussions has Tiger brought on himself, poor thing. Although I don’t have much sympathy for his wife, b/c she married the rat in the first place, #19 AffairWatch, the kids are the losers – they are innocent in this whole sordid episode. He has absolutely ruined no telling how many lives – the whole family is now stalked by the paparazzi like wolves chasing a rabbit. As Ed (Bruno Kirby) said in City Slickers, Tiger wasn’t just cheating on his wife, he was also cheating on his kids. What a sleazebag. I realize none of what I say will affect Tiger in any way whatsoever, but the kids will suffer, and frankly, I’m sick of hearing about him.
Exactly, Chuck. Men of actual moral fiber don’t ‘sympathize’ for this low-life cretin.
The problem is, because he was of ‘mixed’ race, people wanted to lift this guy up as a Cliff Huxtable family man type to give hope to black and mixed ethnicity children. FAIL.
Yes, people fall from grace but this guy pushed the sleazbag envelope. His daddy probably gave him his first porn mag and instructed him that that is all a ‘woman is for’.
*shiver*
Mr. Boot,
Nice writing.
It’s hard for me to disagree with you too much about Tiger. Actually, and this is from someone who breaks 80 on a good day, there’s always been a bevy of heavy user golfers who despised Tiger from afar. The club throwing, the cursing, the showing up of defeated opponents with the exaggerated fist pump; throwing tantrums, throwing a fellow player, Fuzzy Zoeller, under the bus for jokes Fuzzy and Tiger would tell each other. You can google Fuzzy to get the details.
Of course, I never heard anybody talking too loud about their dislike for Tiger. The charge of racism was always no more than a seven iron away, especially if you’re a white male, (as Al, Don, Jimmy et al could always attest to). Young things like me, especially the blond blued eyed kind, can pretty much say anything if we smile between sentences. Slice a three wood and take a mulligan without missing a beat.
Tiger’s got his mulligans.
He repaid the fatherly friendship and advice extended to Tiger by O’Meara by fairly humiliating him one day in a medal match. Sure, O’Meara forgave Tiger, (doesn’t everybody) but, my point is, many of us saw the dark side of the Tiger years before the truth came to light. If someone was looking for the pride before the fall, the obvious character flaws; the ones so many share with Tiger; well,they were there. You just had to look in the right places. And what about Tiger’s professional enablers? Professional PGA enablers. It’ll all be coming out at a book store near you. The lawyers know how to make the money.
Like JFk’s trysts weren’t known by the Washington lawyers of the time. Did you think that Michael decided to take a year off because he wanted to try baseball? If so, there are bridges within a fifteen mile radius of NYC that you can have for a beat down bargain price, rust and all.
Will Tiger pay the price? I, frankly, couldn’t care less. I stopped caring about the Tiger years ago. I was simply waiting for the time bomb to explode. How long can a blind roofer go without falling?
Incidentally, I wouldn’t judge Wieden & Kennedy, the mad men who do Tiger’s commercials, too harshly. It’s lawyers who call the shots. Not the agency people. Like the guards, they just take orders. It’s always standard operating procedure to get this creep or that into rehabilitation. Publicize his sorrow. Nobody forgives like an American.
I got to tell you that I laughed and laughed, well maybe smiled a wide smile or two when I saw Tiger doing his interview a few days ago. Who let the beard fall though the cracks? The lawyers had that baby shaved clean post haste.
Maybe the ugliest thing about this whole affair I guess has nothing to do with this whole affair.
It’s that TW logo on the bill of his cap. That’s the ugliest logo I ever saw. Roy Grace must be doing some serious spinning. I’ll go on record as saying it’s uglier than Michelle’s frown. It’s almost as ugly as the 7 trillion dollar in the red price tag ObamaCare is going to clobber us with in a few years. Shut up, Rachel, leave politics alone for a New York second.
Regardless, all is right with the world. The Tiger image is being put back together. A rooster of Chanticleerian descent is living to love another day.
While Kobe, Ben and Tiger become lemonade, Jimmy the Greek lies somewhere smelling of lemons because he tried to explain why African Americans were such great athletes. What would Howard’s take on all this be? And where have you gone Joe DiMaggio?
I don’t believe this statement factual…
Tiger certainly expends an inordinate amount of time facilitating damage control then with his sponsors. Tiger chose the most guarded place in golf accompanied by a legion of bodyguards and commercials of pure hokum. If Tiger really only cared just about golf, he’d have walked up to the first tee with blond dame in arm and told the cameras to kiss his a** right before driving it 300 yards. And I believe I would have respected him more and trusted him more than this unbecoming, completely phony new found epiphany of faith, family and goodness. Sickening stuff…
Most of us with a dose of sense recognized long ago Tiger a fabulous golfer with a nasty and mean streak – somebody to be admired from afar for his recreational skills, but his image a ruse of nice guy, family man and philanthropist; a gimmick to further swell an inflated head of self importance and a tool for marketing departments to sell ‘stuff’.
We can appreciate your skill Tiger without bowing in your presence, admire your stroke without admiring those you’ve stroked. Your image is a bust now, so hit the ball and can the guile.
Win a few tournaments, and most will be forgotten sadly. They’ll be bragging of your greatness, minimizing those qualities like true character when there’s nothing to be gained. I’m afraid that is a world you’ll never know.
“This article is quite self righteous. Tiger hasn’t suffered? He seems pretty humiliated by all this to me. That he has to get on with his life in full view of the media is unavoidable. And then to question whether he has a soul? John Boot is thoroughly unchristian, and we are wise to reject his voyeuristic intense hatred for something more productive, like forgiving and forgetting.
Should we reject Tiger as a hero? Sure, sports stars shouldn’t be heroes anyway. Should we continue to attack Tiger’s character like the undercover John Boot? Why, because we’ve got no sins of our own to atone for?”
QFT.
I liked Tiger early on, but the sycophantic coverage he received from the media from day one turned me off Tiger soon afterwards. It reminds me so much of the admiration Obama receives from the MSM.
Both the sports and news media is filled with self-hating, guilt-tripped white liberals (Keith Olbermann types) who hate whitey.
I’m 54. I’ve screwed up a lot in my life. My fiance is 55. He’s screwed up a bunch, too. Come to think of it… I can’t think of a single person alive today who hasn’t.
I’m a business major, seeking my masters. I applaud Tiger’s sponsor for doing what our political “stars” apparently find impossible — to direct their spokesperson to own up to his mistakes and try to set things as right as possible, then move forward and learn from it. And with everything that is going on in the world, I cannot believe that Conservatives are allowing themselves to be distracted this way.
Wasn’t there Somebody once who said “Let he among you without sin cast the first stone…”?
It has been a while since I visited this site. It may be longer still before I return.
Marketing genius? This Nike ad could qualify as one of the ‘creepiest’ moments
I have ever viewed on television. Presenting Tiger as the ‘victim’ of his urges
is a nauseating sight. Using the voice of his dead father, someone who is
reported to have been quite the ‘player’ himself is itself laughable. The only
thing Earl would be disappointed with is the paper trail his son left concerning
his serial infidelities. Messages on voice mail? Intimate text messages to
greedy bimbos? Who knew madams, porn stars and hookers could be so duplicitous?
Earl would not be proud. He certainly taught Tiger better than that!
The only thing Tiger regrets is getting caught. Nike’s trying to convince us
otherwise is an insult to our intelligence. Tiger’s indiscretions are not
the crime of the century (and yes everybody sins) but there is no reason
to immediately absolve him of his serial stupidity, dishonesty and disloyalty.
Now there could be marketing gold in having Tiger’s wife represent a prominent
golf club manufacturer. Apparently she swings a pretty mean nine iron.
Tiger? The guy is a total douche. Always has been. The signs were always there. What else could there possibly be to discuss?
Except possibly the fact that it’s pretty remarkable that the ladies on this thread are cutting him slack for such rampant and calculated behavior. I find that very interesting, and utterly predictable. The fact that Tiger is absurdly loaded continues to make him attractive to all women, most would gladly step in to take his wife’s place. Have some more respect for yourselves, ladies.
Tiger is swearing on the golf course today per his usual classlessness.
So much for a ‘gentleman’s’ sport.
This guy does not give a whit about making golf look sleazy.
Delia……Give him a little bit of a break on this one….He said suck instead of his typical f***. I noticed he cooled off shortly after the outburst. The Nike lawyers must have called his caddy……Should be interesting on Sunday. I’m pulling for Phil. As far as I know, Phil hasn’t banged his neighbors daughter….Steve
I’ll take Bitch-Tits Bill Mickelson over sleazy, no-conscience-cocky TG any ol’ day.
What is it about talent people of ‘color-other-than-white’ that seem to prove they are not that far from the jungle?
Maybe it’s time to face an ugly truth: We as a society of ALL colors have not come very far yet. Men are still scum who wag their dicks with impunity and women are tarred and feathered for being the skanks of said sleazoid.
Perhaps the reason some men (and ‘faux’ women commenters) stand up for a guy who clearly didn’t give a flying frick about his managers/friends/family/mother/daughters/wife/et al is resultant of men who grew up with single mothers and therefore they have no concept or compassion for women and they ‘automatically’ knee-jerk believe that an ugly Pygmy looking man like Tiger Woods only won a beautiful woman like ‘blonde-blue-eyed Elin’ because of his ‘status’.
The truth is. If Tiger Woods and been open about his ‘skank’ lovin’, many people (including advertisers) would have dropped him like a hot spud.
Tiger is a symptom of a bigger problem amongst men in general.
A guy who drugs half of his women, who has unprotected sex and women who abort his babies is now seen as…’cry me a river?’.
Oh hell no.
Apologies if there are two comments from me, my computer momentarily paused for no apparent reason. I agree with LennyB and am not sure why anyone is eager to give this guy a pass. At the risk of sounding naive or worse, I’d like to think it’s OK to frown on behavior such as his. Everyone is going to make up their mind on what they’ve heard and Tiger’s actions may or may not change their view of him. But then I can’t imagine why anyone in polite society, much less a President, would have anything to do with Bill Ayers either.
John 8:7
When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.”
This particular verse is interesting in relation to the Tiger Woods story in a couple of ways. First, in the sense that the quoted verse is taken from a context where a woman was about to be stoned for adultery(gee, any connection there).
Secondly, that in the situation described, no one was prepared to stone the the man to death despite his doing the same thing as the woman. In the many months of this tedious celebrity drama, very few people have been willing to say- “wait, shouldn’t we be chastising these sleazy women too?”. Such is the culture we live in, that one of these women had the audacity to sue Tiger Woods for “victimizing” her, as though being a loose groupie who drops her panties for someone simply due to their money/fame, is some kind of behavior she was coerced into by Tiger Woods, rather than looking her for a rich payout.
Frankly, this society’s obsession with living vicariously through the ups and downs of someone they’ve never met is both pathetic and sickening.
I have a retired friend who all he talked about was tiger this, tiger that. Excuse me?
First, there’s always been something about tiger’s expressions, mannerisms, looks in his eyes that gave me the creeps, and set off alarm bells. These spoke so loud at times it was hard to hear his words. My gut instincts were confirmed when this story broke, and I read an article written by some sportswriter nearly a decade ago, about how shocked he was regarding tigers behavior. How tightly managed he would have to be in order to maintain the ‘illusion’ the marketers wanted to make money off him. So this didn’t just ‘happen’, and it’s certainly ‘no accident’ either.
I’ll also wager this isn’t over. We haven’t seen/heard the last of tigers “indescretions. He has a HUGE appetite control problem and no one ‘gets over that’ in a few weeks of therapy. He’ll be back . . . . .
First, get the heck over it. If you hate Tiger and despize what he stands for, don’t buy Nikes, don’t watch him play, boycott him period. If you h ate Tiger, don’t give him anymore publicity by ranting and raving about how much you hate him.
Second, I am constantly amazed at the inability of people who claim to follow the teachings of Christ to forgive. Tiger Messed up. He is morally depraved. He is lost. Should supposed Christians be praying for him. For that matter shouldn’t Christians be praying for America?
Just saying.
I have a really good idea. GIVE IT A REST!
Can one of you invoking the New Testament help me out? I can’t find the verse that quotes Jesus as saying, “Let ye who is without sin cast the first stone. The rest of you – keep cheering her and buying the merchandise she endorses.”
tiger’s sad and repulsive.
You can quit writing about this idiot anytime…