More details about Tiger than we really wanted to know

. . . not to mention that he raked in all that endorsement cash based on a public image which was pure, unadulterated horseshit.

 

That's a neat trick VF pulled off. Do a big story on Tiger's Hos, and put Grace Kelly on the cover. :

 

I'm not getting it.

These stories aren't going to go away, especially the most salacious ones, the ones that have enormous public value.

If anything is contemptible it is that.

 

Honest question. If Ovie was married and did what Tiger did, would you feel the same way about him?

 

I wished I'd never watched Mickey Mantle play baseball after I found out what a drinker and philanderer he was!

 

This has reached idiotic levels -- and really smells of piling on for no other reason than to try and sell magazines and tabloids.

I mean seriously - we get it, dude loved to fuck (what male doesn't) had the means and opportunity to cheat (which, statistically makes him no different than about 60 percent of the population) and cheated often.

And the gambling shit is stupid -- yeah, he plays high but guess what, he's worth like $500 million and has unlimited access to money (well he did) -- so him playing $100 K a hand is not nearly as immoral as the millions of people sitting at casinos every day playing for $10 a hand when they can't even afford to put food on their table or pay their fucking bills

Who fucking cares, Jeebus.

 

Because Tiger's riding the cotton pony is somehow culturally important.

More people know the ins and outs of this scandal than what's in the hc bill.

 

Rachel Uchitel paid 10mil in hush money:

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/tigerwoods/2010/04/01/2010-04-01_tiger_woods_paid_first_alleged_mistress_rachel_uchitel_10m_to_stay_mum_on_affair.html

 

Makes her second on the 2009 PGA Tour money list, behind only Tiger's 10.5 million.

Good grief.

 

I'm sure its all a big coincidence this is coming out as the Masters is about to begin.

 

It's not all about the philandering. That happens. I get it. I don't like the way Tiger plays the media. I don't like how he massages and micromanages every aspect of his relationship with the press, how he threw out this manufactured image of him as a family man when it was all a ruse. That's what gets me. He's just completely disingenuous in every area of his public life, and that annoys me to no end. He's fake, and terribly hard to root for. The only time he's looked like a freaking human being in the last 10 years was the British Open after Earl died. And I rooted for him then.

 

That's not because people read watch or hear more about Tiger Woods than the HC bill, but because the substance of the HC bill was covered with less detail and with less intensity.

It's also a karma thing. Tiger Woods was held up as the icon leading to post racial America. It was almost like he was being pushed on society as golf's Arthur Ashe. Turns out Tiger has no interest in social change or justice, just money and whores. His ethnic identity was a huge part of what he was. Not only the best golfer of his generation but, get this, he was African American. The William Rhodens of this world couldn't stop beating off to the fact that a black man was dominating the white man's country club game. Through his sterling character and dominating performance he was becoming as identified as around the world as Ali with the wholesomeness of Donny Osmond.

Turns out Tiger may be the greatest golfer of his generation but with all the charm and character of Stanley Kowalski.

The Tiger Woods story is too predictable to be the great American novel, but perfect for the great American tabloid press.