My boyfriend and I argue about this often. He is a SPORTS FAN. He can tell you stats about players and teams from almost any sport (from baseball, to basketball, to soccer, to FOOTBALL, to hockey...). He is also very rational and most of all loves to play devils advocate to piss me off. Well, we often combat on Tiger Woods.
I say
"he disgusts me, and he dragged his good pro-golfer name through the mud for cheap pussy"
he says
"who cares what he did in his personal life, he's amazing. he's a legend. he's changed the sport"
Ah, well my dear boyfriend.
I disagree. Why?
Because I do very much understand how much Tiger Woods has done for Golf. How he is amazing. I get it. BUT...what really bothers me (and you will learn this about me) is that he has presented an entirely different image of himself to the world. Tiger, you will never sell me on the sex rehab bull shit. never. You like pussy because you're rich and famous and you can get it all the time- THAT'S OK. I swear to you if Tiger Woods came out and said "I'm a freak and I like to bang", my hat would go off to him. But...Tiger Woods is a brand. Tiger Woods is backed by a PR team that has manipulated him since he became a somebody. So I do realize, that it is wishful thinking. But that is what I find bothersome. Tiger has tried to sell me the bullshit lie that he is a devoted family man; quiet, conservative and inoffensive. Please...have you read the text messages?
And apparently Tiger wants me to hate him more.
Tiger/PR put out an add for Nike, right before the Masters, which tries to portray him as a broken man. A solemn looking Tiger peers into the camera, as a voiceover of his deceased father plays on. WHAT.THE.FUCK. No, on so many levels. I suppose image revival trumps integrity. Nike/PR/Tiger figured that chopping up an old interview given by his late father (which does not even address Tiger directly) would pull on the heart-strings of the american viewers. "Forgive me for liking pussy! See? Even my dead dad would?" FUCK THAT.
NO.
But watch, because people forget too stupidly and easily and are eager to have a "comeback", they will forgive. They are forgiving now. Some will notice the Nike Ad. Some will watch the Masters. Some, after watching Tiger play will FORGET about everything. Brilliant Nike. Shamelessly, fucking brilliant.
So I suppose in some ways, the boyfriend is correct. They will forget. Stupid people will forget about what Tiger did and love him forever.
I have to quote Lainey at laineygossip.com when I say, I hate people sometimes.
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