Tiger Woods biggest mistake: getting married

[Honolulu_Blue]

Originally Posted by Flasch186

so next time he tees off at a tourney does he get resoundingly booed?

Originally Posted by Danny

I guarantee he gets resoundingly cheered

This. The golf world will rally around him and cheer him on for the "strength" and "courage" he has shown through this difficult times.

[Honolulu_Blue]

Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo

i wouldn't feel comfortable putting Peyton in there. Who knows what dirty laundry he has?

maybe he likes to do football-groupies doggystyle on the bed in front of a mirror and stand behind them and practice all his line-of-scrimmage handsignals and adjustments as he's cornholing them?

It sounds like you've put a little too much thought into this whole scenario.

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by Honolulu_Blue

It sounds like you've put a little too much thought into this whole scenario.

not really all that much...and admit it...you laughed. shit...he might even wear his helmet!

[Logan]

Originally Posted by SirFozzie

Heh. I was wrong, geez. I have to admit I was thinking that if it was yellow journalism, that voice mail never would air, but yeah, that was bad.

This is really all the explanation we get? Come on, you have to have some deep-seeded issue as to why the evil trashpress is so evil...or a freakishly obsessive love for Tiger.

[SirFozzie]

Originally Posted by Logan

This is really all the explanation we get? Come on, you have to have some deep-seeded issue as to why the evil trashpress is so evil...or a freakishly obsessive love for Tiger.

Nope. Just a deep-seated disdain for the celebrity-driven press. Tearing someone down (fairly, or unfairly) sells. The politics of destruction. And they hate someone who won't play their game. It makes celebrity a game where you feed others to the ravenous maw of the trashpress, so they don't turn their eyes on YOU instead.

[Ronnie Dobbs2]

Meh, being famous comes with positives and negatives.

[Honolulu_Blue]

Originally Posted by SirFozzie

Nope. Just a deep-seated disdain for the celebrity-driven press. Tearing someone down (fairly, or unfairly) sells. The politics of destruction. And they hate someone who won't play their game. It makes celebrity a game where you feed others to the ravenous maw of the trashpress, so they don't turn their eyes on YOU instead.

I agree. I find the whole thing distasteful. I don't feel particularly sorry for Tiger Woods. He made his bed here and, as a public figure, this kind of scrutiny goes with the territory. Always has, always will.

That said, it's not like the trashpress won anything or uncovered some great mystery or evil that those impacted didn't already know. It's pretty clear that, based on Tiger's Nov. 24th voicemail message to this woman, his wife already knew that he'd been cheating on her. All the hounding by the tabloids did is make it so everyone else now knows.

[Maple Leafs]

Doug Christie, because he knows his wife would cut his balls off.

[Chubby]

Originally Posted by SirFozzie

Nope. Just a deep-seated disdain for the celebrity-driven press. Tearing someone down (fairly, or unfairly) sells. The politics of destruction. And they hate someone who won't play their game. It makes celebrity a game where you feed others to the ravenous maw of the trashpress, so they don't turn their eyes on YOU instead.

You're a dope. Building someone up sells too, in this case however, Tiger brought himself down yet you want to try and make the reporters the bad guys for ya know, actually uncovering the truth.

Tiger uses the media to earn millions and millions of dollars in endorsements but doesn't want the other side of the coin, doesn't work that way.

If he were so virtuous then he should make sure all ads with his ads in it are pulled out of your favorite "trashpress".

[gstelmack]

Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo

i wouldn't feel comfortable putting Peyton in there. Who knows what dirty laundry he has?

Given what his Dad and brother pulled at the draft, it wouldn't surprise me. He also used to blame his receivers and teammates all the time when a play went bad. He's EVIL!

[Galaxy]

Originally Posted by Chubby

You're a dope. Building someone up sells too, in this case however, Tiger brought himself down yet you want to try and make the reporters the bad guys for ya know, actually uncovering the truth.

Tiger uses the media to earn millions and millions of dollars in endorsements but doesn't want the other side of the coin, doesn't work that way.

If he were so virtuous then he should make sure all ads with his ads in it are pulled out of your favorite "trashpress".

Not to mention the shareholders in the companies he represents, the jobs that make his products, the fans that support the PGA with money, ect.

[gstelmack]

Originally Posted by Chubby

Tiger uses the media to earn millions and millions of dollars in endorsements but doesn't want the other side of the coin, doesn't work that way.

I'm not big on the whole papparazzi / let's go hunt down women who had affairs with him just so they could get their face in front of the media and get on reality TV scene. However, when you wreck your car, including damage to a neighbor's property, and this requires the police to come out, and you refuse to talk to them about what happened, and you present explanations for all of this that make no sense, well, you're kind of digging your own grave.

So I'm with Chubby.

[Galaxy]

Originally Posted by gstelmack

I'm not big on the whole papparazzi / let's go hunt down women who had affairs with him just so they could get their face in front of the media and get on reality TV scene. However, when you wreck your car, including damage to a neighbor's property, and this requires the police to come out, and you refuse to talk to them about what happened, and you present explanations for all of this that make no sense, well, you're kind of digging your own grave.

So I'm with Chubby.

His most recent statement was still half-assed.

[Autumn]

Originally Posted by Maple Leafs

OK, maybe it's not absolute. But would you agree it increase the odds to the point where we really should act surprised when it happens? Like, even vaguely surprised?

No, exactly, I agree with that. Not surprised at all, but we should leave room for the few that still keep their integrity.

[Subby]

BEHIND THE SCENES

[Subby]

Originally Posted by SirFozzie

(re: The allegations of Tiger's "mistress")

Not when you have trashpress creating the smoke out of nothing at all.

Somebdy needs an ice cream sundae and a hug!

[Dr. Sak]

I don't think any of us should be really surprised...SirFozzie can be a bit of an exaggerator with his emotions and allegations.

[Atocep]

I'm amazed this has hit 7 pages. Am I the only one that really doesn't care what Tiger does and realizes that Tiger's fans probably don't either?

Tiger woods is still the best golfer in the world. Tiger woods will still be cheered like no one else at events. Tiger woods will still make outrageous amounts of money from endorsements.

[Honolulu_Blue]

Originally Posted by Atocep

I'm amazed this has hit 7 pages.

Hi! Welcome to the Internet! You must be new around here...

[Atocep]

Originally Posted by Honolulu_Blue

Hi! Welcome to the Internet! You must be new around here...

I like to pretend FOFC is Target and the rest of the internet is Walmart.

[Fidatelo]

Originally Posted by Atocep

I'm amazed this has hit 7 pages. Am I the only one that really doesn't care what Tiger does and realizes that Tiger's fans probably don't either?

Dude, you have 7 posts in this thread yourself.

[Atocep]

Originally Posted by Fidatelo

Dude, you have 7 posts in this thread yourself.

Yep, and none of them are really about the incident.

[Fidatelo]

Originally Posted by Atocep

Yep, and none of them are really about the incident.

But you're still
a) obviously in here reading and interested in the various discussions; and
b) contributing to the number of posts that have pushed this to 7 pages.

[Atocep]

Originally Posted by Fidatelo

But you're still
a) obviously in here reading and interested in the various discussions; and
b) contributing to the number of posts that have pushed this to 7 pages.

I'm busted now. Time to move on.

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by SirFozzie

Heh. I was wrong, geez. I have to admit I was thinking that if it was yellow journalism, that voice mail never would air, but yeah, that was bad.

+1

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by boberot

Methinks we need a thread dedicated to highly successful athletes who aren't lecherous assholes. It's disturbing that so many of the great ones are either dicks or apparently morally bankrupt.

Meh. People in every industry do things that are unsavory. We just hear about the ones in sports more than others. Doesn't make it right. Just saying, it's not endemic to some gene that's only embedded in athletes to be jerks. I mean, Wall Street dudes are probably thinking "what? Only one girl? That's it?" Where are the others who he's banged?

His fan base is largely men who play a sport that has a minimum buy-in. Me thinks they're going to understand more than the average fan in any other sport.

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by Subby

BFD. He only "manned up" because he got caught.

Not really. He had to have known it was coming out last week. That Rachel girl was the smokescreen to buy them time for this bombshell.

[DanGarion]

Originally Posted by Ronnie Dobbs2

All I could come up with were Tebow and Polamalu, but I'm not sure I would be shocked to find out that they can be assholes.

Breaking news, people can sometimes be assholes. News at 11.

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by Passacaglia

You call yourself DC in your thoughts?

No. But it was funny to type it.

Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo

did we ever recognize DC for the double meaning of "Tiger Woods 10 was too much of a wreck to keep playing?"

That was a subtle and great piece of comedy

Heh.

[DanGarion]

Originally Posted by Maple Leafs

Doug Christie, because he knows his wife would cut his balls off.

highly successful athletes

I don't think that means what you think it means...

[Maple Leafs]

Originally Posted by DanGarion

I don't think that means what you think it means...

Point conceded.

[DanGarion]

Originally Posted by Subby

BEHIND THE SCENES

Welcome to the thread...

[Glengoyne]

Originally Posted by Kodos

Peyton Manning.

Originally Posted by Danny

first name that came to mind for me

Tom Brady has WAY more fidelity.

[DanGarion]

Originally Posted by Atocep

I like to pretend FOFC is Target and the rest of the internet is Walmart.

Sportsdigs had 20 pages 2 weeks ago.

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by DanGarion

Sportsdigs had 20 pages 2 weeks ago.

Sam's Club?

[DanGarion]

I'd put Orel Hershiser on that list.

[Ronnie Dobbs2]

Originally Posted by DanGarion

Breaking news, people can sometimes be assholes. News at 11.

Welcome to the point.

[DanGarion]

Originally Posted by Ronnie Dobbs2

Welcome to the point.

Sorry I wasn't picking on you, I just wanted to make the point from your comment.

[Young Drachma]

I wonder if Tiger would've paid her more than 25k to keep her mouth shut? I'm guessing she wanted the notoriety given her "reality tv fame." This will clearly make him tighten up the ranks if he's smart, though, because he's never had to face adversity like this and has skated for pretty much his whole career in the media.

He'll either have a crazy season next year or people will bring up the affair every time he has a bad week or month. In that way, he probably wishes he was Ray Lewis.

[boberot]

Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

Meh. People in every industry do things that are unsavory. We just hear about the ones in sports more than others. Doesn't make it right. Just saying, it's not endemic to some gene that's only embedded in athletes to be jerks. I mean, Wall Street dudes are probably thinking "what? Only one girl? That's it?" Where are the others who he's banged?

His fan base is largely men who play a sport that has a minimum buy-in. Me thinks they're going to understand more than the average fan in any other sport.

I would never suggest that athletes have any sort of exclusivity in the lechery / douchebaggery department. I just found myself reflecting on all the highly successful athletes whose legend seems to be tarnished by something illegal or reprehensible.

Then I tried to think of how many top-flight athletes I [or FOFC] could name who were seemingly slam-dunk really good guys. I immediately arrived at John Stockton and then didn't have anybody else immediately jump to mind.

I wasn't trying to make any other generalizations.

[molson]

Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

He'll either have a crazy season next year or people will bring up the affair every time he has a bad week or month.

Hell, even before this, people brought up his marriage every time he had a bad week or month. His career slipped a little and the talk was that married life took away his drive to compete or something.

I'm sure at least 90% of married professional athletes have cheated. It's kind of interesting seeing him all rattled, but I'm not going to think any differently about him.

[Danny]

Originally Posted by molson

I'm sure at least 90% of married professional athletes have cheated. It's kind of interesting seeing him all rattled, but I'm not going to think any differently about him.

Wow, you can probably make some money off of all those secret cams you have that are monitoring all those married athletes sexual encounters.

[molson]

Originally Posted by Danny

Wow, you can probably make some money off of all those secret cams you have that are monitoring all those married athletes sexual encounters.

I love this schtick on message boards. It seems to be on an upswing here.

I'll expect you to fully document and prove, beyond any possible doubts, all of your thoughts and ideas here in the future.

As for me, I disagree that that burden is required on jerkoff message boards that have so meaning to anything, so I'll keep stating opinions.

[Galaxy]

Spirit Airlines is cashing in already.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/1..._n_377222.html

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by Galaxy

Spirit Airlines is cashing in already.

Spirit Airlines' Tiger Woods Ad (PHOTOS)

awesome

[RainMaker]

Originally Posted by Honolulu_Blue

I think we have to be careful here. Given the very low bar set by Steve Phillips' Tubby Temptress (and Letterman's girl), I think Tiger Woods did very, very well for himself on the "Official 2009 Women To Have An Affair With" rankings.

Phillips isn't in the same league as Tiger. You need to rate Tiger on the same scale as Derek Jeter. Jeter's picks are much more impressive.

[RedKingGold]

Originally Posted by Subby

BFD. He only "manned up" because he got caught.

Does we really expect people to "man-up" or "own-up" if they don't get caught first?

Unless your name is Aristotle or one of those other greek-bread guys, I'm willing to cut the guy some slack.

Alright, I'm out. Back to the presstrash.

[Ronnie Dobbs2]

Yeah, but Jeter isn't married. It probably takes a different kind of girl to be willing to be road beef.

[Galaxy]

Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo

awesome

What makes it great that it's an airline using it.

TMZ posted these pics of him in Vegas club. Tiger Woods Cozies Up in Vegas | TMZ.com

I love the Nike gear in the Vegas nightclub.

[Honolulu_Blue]

Originally Posted by RainMaker

Phillips isn't in the same league as Tiger. You need to rate Tiger on the same scale as Derek Jeter. Jeter's picks are much more impressive.

Originally Posted by Ronnie Dobbs2

Yeah, but Jeter isn't married. It probably takes a different kind of girl to be willing to be road beef.

What he said. This isn't the "Women Who Date Athletes" rankings, but "Women To Have An Affair With" rankings. That's two totally different class of women.

Though, for the record, hockey players, on average, by FAR, date hotter women than any other type of athlete, especially when you add the fact that they are hockey players and, therefore, a lot less famous than NFL, NBA, or MLB stars.