Thursday, March 18, 2010

Tiger Woods

What is the big deal with Tiger Wood’s life? He is just an average person who cheated on his wife with a few other women. With him there are plenty of men who have fallen for temptation. None of the other people who have committed adultery end up all over the television or newspapers unless some other incident had happed as a result of it such as murder.
The only reason why Tiger Woods had so much publicity was that he is a person who can play golf better than almost every person on the face of the earth, and that he grossed just over something like a billion dollars last year. The man has lost a lot of his major endorsements like Gatorade, and Gillette just because he had a little perversion. When Kobe Bryant and Beg Ben Rothlisburger were caught cheating or raping someone, not to many people or news sources really cared or covered what exactly happened. And soon everyone just dropped the subject and Kobe Bryant and Ben Rothlisburger went on to lead successful playing careers without looking back. But with the case of Tiger Woods, the media spreading around the bad word about Tiger Woods, the people who view these sources have already cashed in their thoughts and feelings on this subject. After passing this judgment, they still continue to rag on Tiger Woods, and instead of looking into the future and see what great accomplishments will come to follow from one of the greatest athletes to ever step foot on a playing field and will go down in history as a golfer to be untouched. The people will instead view him as the sexual predator that he once was.
Tiger Woods is planning on returning to the golfing green when the masters comes in a couple of months. The golfing community is expecting a record crowd at this years masters that could reach more than three times more spectators than all other master’s in the past. With a crowd expected to be in the high 50s, a majority of the fans going to the golf match is not going because they are a fan of Tiger Woods or are impressed with his over 80 career wins. But are only going to more than likely chant some obscene rants or just to see him because he was a featured character on the animated cartoon series South Park or on TMZ. With a well preplanned speech at his news conference that had no emotion and seemed that it was presented by a robot, and going to a sex rehab and making every effort possible to keep his good clean name, we as a community should embrace his apology and forget about what has happened in his personal life and give him a rebirth and continue his overpowering career as the world’s greatest golfer. Maybe after his wins his next big tournament which hopefully will come in his first appearance, and gets his green jacket that that would be a step in the right direction for him.

2 comments:

  1. Great job in taking a stand on this one. I agree that people, news stations, etc place way too much emphasis on Tiger and his personal life. Sadly, I think that the media had built him up to be such a stand up, never break the rules guy, just because he appeared that way, that they made his fall from good graces so much harder. While I still have the old school ideals that athletes should be role models, I do agree that when people make mistakes we should forgive and forget. They just need to leave him alone and let him play. It wouldn't have been so bad if they hadn't made him seem like such a saint in the beginning.

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  2. I was actually just having this discussion with someone the other day. Seriously, who cares that Tiger cheated!? People cheat everyday, get over it! I love that you posted this blog. I really think his personal life shouldn't affect his career at all. Maybe he should have tried to make better decisions since he is in the public spot light, but I'm absolutly tired of hearing his name.

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