RIP Fuzzy Zoeller

[BurnsWhenIPee]

I think the way it all went down, with thoughts of him laying unconscious in a yard, barefoot, after his supermodel wife chased him out of the house and smashed his windshield with a golf club, ratcheted the story up about 100 times more than it should have.

Then the realization that he was married to a supermodel, but couldn't keep himself from banging Waffle House skanks, kept it going much longer than it should have.

 

[qtlaw]

I went back and read the exact quotes and the scene, jeez it was awful, just dripping with racism and condescension. Hey Fuzzy, did anyone ever call you "little boy" when you were a major champion? Did anyone ever tell you to serve some racist-associated meal? Okay, it was one time, but damn as others have said, very hard to say that was one isolated incident at his core. It was yet another incident where the "good ole boy" thinks it was funny to make some racist comments. Fuzzy may have hid from doing anything further but besides apologizing to Tiger, what else did he do to make amends? Yeah, for someone of his stature, I'd say you want forgiveness? Show remorse.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

While I might be prone to agree, it was a different time - and Tiger was pitched as a very different person. He was the brightest American star athlete post-Jordan, had just won his 14th major on a broken leg at Pebble Beach and was Madison Avenue's greatest pitchman. Brands like Nike, Buick, Gatorade, etc., he was their main guy.

And consider the timing of it - Thanksgiving - the staid reputation of professional golf, the propping up of this Camelot life with Elin and the kids and then backed up by all of the lurid details of not just another woman, but the National Enquire-ness of it all. The multiple women, the parking lots of Perkins, the text messages.

Now, the Tour forcing Tiger to do a "I'm sorry" news conference was indeed ridiculous.

I also think there was some gleeful piling on my a golf and/or sporting press that knew Tiger was an awful human being but had nothing to back it up other than his bitchy public persona and some barroom gossip. It was a rare chance to knock him down a few more pegs.

 

[Chet Lemon]

I went back and read the exact quotes and the scene, jeez it was awful, just dripping with racism and condescension. Hey Fuzzy, did anyone ever call you "little boy" when you were a major champion? Did anyone ever tell you to serve some racist-associated meal? Okay, it was one time, but damn as others have said, very hard to say that was one isolated incident at his core. It was yet another incident where the "good ole boy" thinks it was funny to make some racist comments. Fuzzy may have hid from doing anything further but besides apologizing to Tiger, what else did he do to make amends? Yeah, for someone of his stature, I'd say you want forgiveness? Show remorse.

And this gets to the heart of why you don’t say stupid, racist **** in public, even if in your heart of hearts the purpose is harmless locker room needling: because, for the listener, there is no way to discern between the two, which sound exactly the same.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

I also think there was some gleeful piling on my a golf and/or sporting press that knew Tiger was an awful human being but had nothing to back it up other than his bitchy public persona and some barroom gossip. It was a rare chance to knock him down a few more pegs.

The story for years was Tiger was an asshole and "Steiny" was an even bigger asshole, and the bigger the asshole you are, the more people love piling on.

 

[No Phonies]

Yes, 'twas a form of "afflict the comfortable" that we so often pursue.