Ok, I get it. Tiger Woods likes sex. He likes sex so much that he cheated on his wife. His hot, Swedish, supermodel wife may I add. He is a world renowned and uber-famous superathlete. The things he did were atrocious and wrong in every way, shape and form. But he’s a man, he made some mistakes, and he has apologized over and over again for being such a sorry excuse for a human being. There, that should be it.
So why is Tiger holding a media conference in the press room at Augusta National Golf Club a few days before the Master’s Tournament begins? What else does the media possibly need from Tiger? The story is old. Seriously, Tiger’s downfall broke around Thanksgiving. Which by my calculations makes this story next to ancient. Tiger’s Sex Scandal has been over covered again and again since November, and each new attempt at reporting about the scandal becomes more and more dilapidated and worn out as the previous 9,000. It is over everyone. Just move on. We’re bordering on Brett Favre like coverage here. There was a point in time last year when I was seriously convinced that ESPN was going to create an entire channel for the Brett Favre Saga (channel 4, obviously, with hidden cameras following him around as he mowed lawn and went deer hunting while analysts at a desk zealously interpreted every decision he made as an implication about his playing status). I’d probably watch. Hell, I was pretty much doing it anyway whenever I watched Sportscenter.
Looks like a Tiger channel may be next. What a sad world we live in, when we are more interested in Tiger Woods sexual infidelities than we are about an NHL team that was inches from being sold to Canada that is now owned by the NHL and almost in 1st place in the West. Honestly, its annoying. Leave Tiger alone! Let him work through his issues without having to tell the media of the world what happens next, or how his wife reacted to the affairs. She was probably pissed, which explains the golf club to the face. I dread the day the Masters become a media frenzy about some off the course mistakes one man made. Granted, he IS the face of golf, but the Masters is the tournament of the year. Let Tiger out of the hot seat. Remember all the other golfers that take to the tee in early April. Remember that sports are about what happens on the field of competition, not always about what happens in the personal lives of the athletes. Enough is enough.
