Tiger Woods will try to win the US Open on Monday in a playoff with Rocco Mediate. In case you've been living under a rock all weekend, Tiger is playing with an injured knee. As Dan Hicks told us countless times throughout the weekend, this was like a combination of Jordan's flu game, Willis Reed, Kirk Gibson, Schilling with the bloody sock, Byron Leftwitch being carried by his teammates, and Matthew Perry finishing the final season of Friends without his pain pills. Only tougher, because golf is a really difficult sport.
Anyone who's ever been injured can relate to Tiger's story. Here's a guy who left his beautiful model wife home with his newborn daughter to play four rounds of golf in front of thousands of adoring fans. Even though he had arthroscopic knee surgery 8 weeks ago. Sure, NFL players bounce back from having their knees scoped in 6 weeks all the time, but this is golf.
Tiger grimaced after most of his drives, but that was only to show the fans that he was really hurt. I know that I'll go in to work on Monday with a renewed commitment to play through the pain and be more like Tiger. Not only is he the greatest golfer ever, he's an inspiration to everyone.
The comparisons to Kirk Gibson, MJ, and Willis Reed didn't seem quite right to me. I knew I had seen that sort of inspirational performance one time in the past, but couldn't place it. Then I remembered where it was.
Tiger Woods is the Kerri Strug of 2008. He's my hero.
June 15, 2008
Tiger Woods: An Inspiration To Us All
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The biggest wuss I have ever seen. Tiger is the most shallow athlete on earth. Besides being able to hit a little white ball, this guy is absolutely useless.
Also, I don't know if you knew, but Tiger is a dad and his dad died. That has never happened to another golfer.
Let's get the real news out......
That was not just a scope that was done. If it was, they found some major problems with that left knee and he is not supposed to be playing golf. Maybe you missed that part of the story...it was the most important part of Tiger's career. I would love to see everyone shoot just one hole on a golf course with two good knees and get your results after hitting that little white ball. It takes a lot of brains, strength, and patience, which is why there is no one that has ever played the game as well as Tiger Woods even on two good legs. But when people feel inferior....they tend to belittle others.
Oh yeah "savejake"? I'd like to see you do a gold-medal-winning vault at the Olympics on two good legs, much less with a sprained ankle!
Seriously, though, why do people without a sense of humor always think it's a good argument to say that if you can't play sports at a professional level it's unacceptable to criticize professional athletes?
Of course Tiger Woods is a better golfer than I am, even with a bum knee. Tiger Woods could golf better than me playing off his knees. Does that mean he deserves the level of hero worshiping and martyrhood that has been bestowed on him? I don't think so.
to outlast all those healthy opponents and maintain the poise to knock that 15-footer in (that had a left to right curve) is absolutely incredible. and all of this with a bum leg.
the man is a legend, and i can't think of any greater display of his power. "humorous" posts like this sicken me.
I'd be a lot more willing to accept Tiger's MJ status if he had winced even once after hitting a good drive. It's funny how he never seemed to feel the pain until he slightly shanked one.
And don't blame the knee on him missing some fairways. He always misses a lot of fairways.
None of you play golf obviously. Tiger is the GOAT. The fact that he is able to do this 8 weeks after knee surgery is ridonkulous.
Oh and fuck you too.
I don't think he is criticizing Tiger Woods. How can you? He hasn't done anything to embarass himself. It is the media once again overhyping something. Just see Paul Pierce and his "heroic" return from his death bed in game 1. I think that is what his post is about.
As was mentioned, I think the commentary was aimed more at NBC creating the image of Tiger being the ONLY golfer to play with pain... the ONLY golfer to have lost his dad. And I do like the point that Tiger only yelped when he hit a crappy shot.
Personally, I wanted to see Rocco win it outright yesterday because he's going to get stomped by Tiger today. Tiger OWNS this golf course. If Tiger had tried to play Oakmont on a bad wheel last year, he wouldn't have made the cut.
Maybe the most hilarious part of this whole post is the people who seem to have been seriously offended. These comments are classic.
I don't quite understand, however, why that ridiculous Tiger celebration didn't hurt the crap out of his knee as well.
I think he's overdoing it a bit.
The post was definitely making fun of the media primarily. But I also wanted to make fun of Tiger. Sure he's the greatest golfer ever, but he comes across as a petulant, whiny, self-absorbed asshole.
I thought this was hilarious. Oh and it's amazing how many people live with such a knot in their panties. Lighten up, people!!
Gosh Brien, didn't you know that Tiger's knee is going to cure cancer, HIV, male pattern baldness, and ED? He's married to Aphrodite in the flesh, payed hundreds of millions of dollars to play a game, and treated like a god so he obviously shouldn't be made fun of by someone who couldn't beat him at golf. There, now I can go back to pretending that Tiger is my friend and cares about whether I cheer for him or not.
Are you guys retarded? Seriously. Are you? Clearly none of you watched Sundays round. If you had, you would have seen him wince more on his tee shots that ended up in the middle of the fairway! Just as they said "Tigers reaction is no indication of the result". I urge those people posting that are probably hanging onto their youth at 40, to try and hit a ball with a 5 iron out of 6 inch rough. After you break your wrist and duff the ball 10 feet, come talk to me. If Tiger goes on to win this, it will be one of the most amazing sports stories of our generation.
But I also wanted to make fun of Tiger. Sure he's the greatest golfer ever, but he comes across as a petulant, whiny, self-absorbed asshole.
You just described every golfer on the planet.
I definitely did not hear the announcers say "Tiger's reaction is no indication of the result". If they did, they're even more culpable in the idol worship. Don't you have to think about what prompted the announcers to comment on that?
Have you ever heard an announcer in another sport have to point out that a player is apparently injured after both good and bad plays? It's almost a conscious cover to account for the possibility that he's faking or overreacting. "Look at that folks! He just winced after a good drive! He clearly must ACTUALLY be hurt!"
j-red, I think youre reading a little too much into that. It was in response to someone saying "oh oh, this may be bad" based on his reaction. Anyway, my point wasnt to defend or argue against the media coverage, which i agree was pathetic. It was to argue the moron who posted that Tiger winced only on bad shots, as some sort of an excuse.
Actually he grimaced when he hit good tee shots. The last one on Saturday when he eagled the last hole he grimaced after the tee shot to the fairway and when he hit the second shot to the green.
I do agree the media is way over-doing it. Same with MJ and the flu. I wonder how many other athletes besides Tiger and MJ, and yes Tiger is an athlete as a golfer, have had similar flu or knee problems and the media overlooks it because the guys hurt are not the sports' stars. MJ was not the first guy with the flu, nor will he be the last, but he is probably the only player we have ever heard about.
Willis Reed played for the NEW YORK Knicks. Anyone think if a small market player came out and played under those circumstances he would have gotten that much love?! He probably would have gotten the coach criticized for hurting the team's chances by playing him for sentiment only.
You just need to live with the fact that the media has its favorites and their job is to sell what they are doing for a living.
Tiger's game was worthy of admiration when placed in the context of it being a game, and also his job for which he is handsomely paid, but that is all. How many times do we see some "athlete" in one of the stick and/or ball sports not play because he is "hurt"--always. I bet in the old days they were afraid to not play or else they might lose their jobs. Now with players unions and guaranteed contracts they do not have to play hurt whereas in an individual sport like golf or tennis if you do not play you do not get paid--other than endoresements.
This does not mean you should rag on Tiger for playing and ANSWERING QUESTIONS FROM THE MEDIA about the knee because he is quite happy not to talk about it--the media is the one driving the machine so cut Tiger some slack. If you do not play golf at a relatively high level you do not know what it does to the knee anyway so do not try to belittle what he is doing.
Besides, in reality all of this is giving us something to talk about now. If not for the media we would not be doing this now and talking about sports.
The level of adoration about which some of you are complaining is what has always existed from the beginning of sports--all sports--golf to football. It is what we enjoy. They can be worshipped, for lack of a better word, as athletes and sports figures but the real heroes are found at home when your parents go to one or two jobs because they have to support their families. Keep it in perspctive and appreciate what Tiger is doing--his fellow athletes will tell you just how hard it is for Tiger to produce under the circumstances if anyone would ask them.
End of rambling dissertation.
try and hit a ball with a 5 iron out of 6 inch rough
This is exactly what I'm talking about. It doesn't matter whether or not I'm good at golf, I can still criticize Tiger.
Let's consider an analogous situation. If you made a joke about George Bush, and I responded with "Well I'd like to see you go out and get elected President!" would that be a good counter-argument?
"objective observer" thanks for taking the time to write a well thought out response. I'm not sure I agree with you that we should expect hero worship and live with it, but you make an interesting argument.
Brien,
Thank you for that brilliant analogy. You have now put my mind at ease and proven you are simply a moron.
First, nobody said you cant make fun of Tiger because you are horrible at golf. Its just impossible to appreciate what he is doing when you dont know the first thing about the sport. Playing team sports recreationally doesnt allow you do understand how tough that sport is to play competitively. BUT, playing golf from 7500 yards on a Saturday with your friends does give you a glimpse. And since you blow at golf, you have no idea the level of difficulty. You can go ahead and make fun of him all you want, you just sound like an ignorant and jealous guy that never excelled at anything noteworthy.
Also, its unrealistic for me to understand what it takes to be elected President. But I have a much better idea of what it takes to play a round of golf.
You should listen to Objective Observer.
8 weeks to recover from a "scoped" knee??? What a candy ass! Phil Kessel of the Boston Bruins only missed 11 games (about 3 weeks) after having a nut removed because of testicular cancer. Now, that's a tough.
I live in San Diego and have played Torrey (North and South) too many times to count so I "have an idea of what it takes to play golf." That being said, the coverage and hero worship of Tiger was sickening to me. It's bad enough when the hero worship happens in a team sport but at least the "hero" can say that he was doing it for his teammates or city. In individual sports, "heroes" are only playing for themselves, the money, or the prestige (i.e. completely selfish reasons). I wish the media would report it for what it was: Despite an injured knee, Tiger was able to earn millions of dollars by playing a game (on a golfcourse that non-residents have to pay hundreds of dollars to get on) in front of thousands of cheering fans.
Agreed. That is tough. And im sure there are many more stories of tough athletes (Lance Armstrong, to me, is the greatest example).
Lets not forget that Tiger has had surgery on this same knee twice before (once to remove a benign tumor). And, getting a knee scoped is different then having cartilage damage and having it repaired. Often athletes get scoped to check if there is damage. A simple scoping still sometimes takes up to a month to recoup from. Tiger had a scope and damage repaired.
Brien,
Anonymous said: Also, its unrealistic for me to understand what it takes to be elected President. But I have a much better idea of what it takes to play a round of golf.
Let me paraphrase his/her argument for you:
Shut up you moron. You can't possibly know anything about playing golf at a professional level. I don't know anything about running for president, but I have a great idea of what it takes to play a round of golf. You don't know, clearly, because you disagree with my belief that Tiger playing professional golf on a knee repaired eight weeks ago is a half-step short of Odysseus slaying the Cyclops.
I think that's the gist of it.
If you live in SD then you only pay $50, so why complain? Just kidding, you make a lot of good points. The media coverage is pathetic. I am a huge fan of Golf and of Tiger, but still found it offensive. However, all my previous posts on this have been geared towards those that take the "how hard is it to play a game" approach. You can hate Tiger because he makes 1000 times more money than you. You can hate him because hes married to super model. You can hate him because you think hes a self absorbed asshole. All im saying is one sounds ignorant when you try and diminish what hes done.
Brien,
My apologies. I believe I jumped the gun when calling you the biggest moron. J-Red has just taken it to an entire other level.
Congrats J-Red.
There are too many anonymous people to keep straight who is who. I'm getting lost in this debate.
For future reference, if you all could come up with a name to use so I can figure out what's going on, that'd be great. If you put some random name, that's pretty much the same as being anonymous. We're not going to come track down, I promise.
get over yourselves, Liger-lovers. you're all a bunch of front-running geeks. la-dee-frickin-da, he has a sore knee.
"Ben", that was the smartest post of the day. I actually laughed hard out loud.
Anyway, Ill be Jon Smith. Its my real name, seriously.
Im the guy that has been pro-Tiger but anti-media.
JS
"ben", thank you.
Tiger playing golf with a bum leg is nothing. This is the same guy that criticized the game of hockey, which has arguably the toughest athletes on earth. They get checked, have pucks hit them in the face and get in fights and stay in the game. Tiger is a giant walking vagina compared to them. He should never be allowed to criticize a contact sport, since all he does is play golf.
A wider observation is this: what is it in the American sports psyche that says we really really must hang the popularity/interest/value of a sport on an individual? MJ was the NBA; Petty, then Earnhardt was/were NASCAR; Tyson was boxing; Garrett Kysar is Soap Box derby racing. When no name individuals are leading no name teams to great heights, we don't care. Golf's ratings and attendance at tournaments varies greatly, depending on the presence or absence of one Tiger Woods. Truth is, fewer people golf in America now than a decade ago. It's a fading sport and TV, with a huge investment, and equipment manufacturers are propping it up on the back (knee) of a handsome, articulate, powerful expert in the sport. The original post was funny. Those who take offense at such things will die young because they are too serious. Laughter = longevity.
You're right that's all he does. And spend millions of dollars to help educate and improve the lives of millions of children.
Now that you've had your 5 minutes of fame, who can you make fun of next to make yourself feel better???
Norman,
I laugh all the time and enjoy life but never at anyone elses expense. Doesn't matter what their name or position in life is, making fun of other people just is not funny. Too many good things to enjoy!
None of us ever criticized how Tiger chooses to use his money, or his worth as a human being, or his ability to play golf better than anyone on Earth.
How did making fun of the media portrayal of Tiger as a cripple in some way get read as an assault on Tiger?
I'm having difficulty figuring out if some people just lack reading comprehension or if they just feel the need to rush to Tiger's defense, even when he doesn't need defending.
I think the saddest part about the whole media circus around Tiger is that Rocco's cinderella story was completely lost. Rocco had the lead most of the back 9, but the Tiger show didn't slow down long enough for the announcers to give us any detailed information about him.
Mediate and Westwood both had very compelling personal stories of hardship, sacrifice, and dedication, and they were only alluded to, because it was all about Tiger's knee. We really don't need to see Tiger's every step on the course, compared to only seeing everyone else hit the ball and then a quick cut back to Tiger still eyeing his putt.
J-Red,
If you think this defense of Tiger is bad try posting something anti-Favre (personal or professional)they'll come out of the woodwork!
(I'm the one from SD that plays Torrey)
I just saw the Stanly Cup finals where those guys were beat to hell and back. Ryan Malone took a puck to his lalready broken nose and came back to play.
I am so sick of hearing of 'heroic' Tiger is. He's the best golfer in the world, but this doesn't compare.
This sort of coverage goes on with all "American" coverage. The network's seem unable of just covering the game. There always has to be a featured story about the athlete or something. I suppose they are trying to make it more interesting. Ever notice that while watching the Olympics you get virtually no coverage of the sports themselves because Bob Costas is droning on about some pole-vaulters rough childhood or something?
"I'm having difficulty figuring out if some people just lack reading comprehension or if they just feel the need to rush to Tiger's defense, even when he doesn't need defending."
It's clearly a combination of both, but I think the main issue is the lack of reading comprehension.
@ Russell,
As far as the media not giving Rocco any time on the broadcast, that's bullshit. They mentioned the fact that he was 45 and coming off back surgery in 1999 and severe pack pain that almost ended his career in 2004. So yeah, they didn't mention him at all. I'm starting to think most of the folks on here didn't even watch the tournament.
Now as far as Westwood, he was the one who kinda fell of the media radar. Yeah, it sucks, but Rocco being 45 and resurecting his career(which will make him the oldest open winner if he wins) and Tiger (Knee and Earls lasting influence with it being fathers day and all), Westwood was the stepchild at the dinner table.
I don't think he meant that Mediate got NO coverage, just that he certainly wasn't getting anywhere close to equal time with Tiger, despite the fact he was leading.
I wanted to learn more about Rocco's impressive FUPA, but NBC did not oblige me.
@Jeff,
Yeah, they mentioned Rocco's back and him being possibly the oldest to ever win and the highest ranked to ever win and so on, which I might not have known otherwise. But we didn't get analysis of how his back injury affects his swing, or maybe how he only hits draws because of his back. We weren't getting many tracers of how his ball flies or examinations of his swing, even though he was in the fairway more than Tiger. You can't claim we heard or saw nearly as much about Rocco as we did Tiger. And we should have heard plenty about Westwood too, who you agree got shafted.
@anonymous,
I hate NBC's Olympics coverage for exactly that reason. I don't want to hear every athlete's life story. It's a sporting event, not a tearjerker.
Of course Westwood would be the odd man out. He isn't American. Everyone was rooting against him.
Anyway, I agree that it is lack of reading comprehension. Even though Brien admitted he kind of hates Tiger I didn't pick up on that too much in the original post.
You could also have photoshopped his face on to Paul Pierce's body as he was carried off crying in game 1.
Hey Big so I guess I don't have a problem with comprehension eh?!
Lee has been playing for 15 years. He is ranked #1 in Europe and nothing really compelling to tell. His father coaches him and was at home in England. He rented a chateau this week and brought his private chef with him. Oh he started playing golf as a teenager. He is best friends with Darren Clarke and Paul McGinley. He is also a member of the Ryder Cup Team that whips our butts every other year. He is really a great guy and if you watched would have heard the crowd cheering for Westwood and holloring "Go England"!
Now if any of you follow golf at all you would know any or all of this. If you are suddenly interested, you can find facts on all of the 125 players of the US Open at PGA.com, USGA.com, TheGolfChannel.com, oh so many places but never on TV at the time of the Open. The sponsors have waited for Tiger to return because when he doesn't play, only 1-2 million people watch. They had almost 10 million viewers this week. Television tends to try and keep the people from changing the channel. They were successful!!!
Ask Rocco what he thinks of Tiger...he thinks he's the best player that ever lived. Maybe you've missed that too.
Everyone have a great afternoon!
I like it when Tigger hits a bad shot, curses and throws his club. We could do without the double fist pump bellowing, too. Real classy guy!
Tiger is a true role model and inspiration to all young golfers who want to emulate his style of play. I can't wait to get out on the links and have these Tiger wannabes throwing their clubs and dropping "F-bombs" whenever they make a poor shot so they can be just like Tiger.
SaveJake:
Many, many fans only watch the majors. You'd think they'd want us to know a little bit about the best player in Europe, since we were already watching the best player in the U.S.
J-Red - Your comment would make sense if you knew what you were talking about. At a minimum, Tiger winced and almost fell over on #6 tee (IIRC) on Sunday, AND hit the fairway. Any of you idiots ever try to swing a golf club with a knee injury? Yeah, the media overhyped it, but they do that with everything. It was still pretty impressive, regardless of what bitter failures like yourselves think.
Good lord...are you kidding me? Tiger had his knee scoped and repaired...not just a simple little scope to clean it out. Secondly, with his swing speed, the torque and stress he is putting on that left knee with every swing would be the equivalency of LaDanian Tomlinson playing an entire game with a torn quad muscle. Unless you have a 125 MPG swing speed which I can assume very many of you don't, how can you sit there and say "Tiger's a wuss"?
Also Brien...you're a moron. Why does Tiger come across as an asshole? EVERY time he was asked by the media about his knee, he NEVER embeloshed...his replies were almost always one or two words and that was that. Tiger COULD have blamed his bad shots on his knee, but simply said, in his interviews, that it wasn't the knee, just bad shots.
The ONLY people who made a big deal out of this was the Media. Tiger was EXTREMELY low profile this entire tournament about the knee.
Are we really talking about HOCKEY on this blog? Talk about a useless sport. Here's what should be done to Hockey. Eliminate 85% of the teams including every team West of the Mississippi (excluding the Colorado Avalanche since they seem to still pull in fans) as well as every team south of Pennsylvania (Hockey in Tampa bay? Please...even when the won the Stanley Cup, no one came out to watch!).
Like him or not, what Tiger just did with a bum knee is OUT OF THIS WORLD!!
Sorry...that was supposed to say 125 MPH swing...not MPG...damn gas prices.
Case in point: "Tiger Woods rallies to win U.S. Open in sudden death"
That's the headline on FoxSports.com. I seem to recall him being up three strokes with eight holes to play. Making up a one stroke difference on the 18th playoff hole is only a "rally" in Tiger's media world.
Thing is, the way he celebrated after sinking that long putt to force the playoff, or the way he dropped to his knees after missing the long putt on the sudden-death hole, you'd never know he was injured at all. I mean, except for the announcers telling you repeatedly that he was and Tiger making sure you remembered by wincing every now and again. But that's cynical of me -- Tiger probably didn't realize the cameras were trained on him when he did that.
the torque and stress he is putting on that left knee with every swing would be the equivalency of LaDanian Tomlinson playing an entire game with a torn quad muscle. Unless you have a 125 MPG swing speed which I can assume very many of you don't, how can you sit there and say "Tiger's a wuss"?
Unless you're a Pro Bowl running back, which I can assume you're not, how can you sit there and say what's equivalent to playing a game with a torn quad?
That's what I love about the comments on this post. So many people have the attitude of "If you disagree with me, you have no basis for your argument. Even though I am basing my arguments on exactly the same experience, that is valid because my conclusions are correct." Too bad there's not enough clarity in the arguments for any kind of recognition of that fact.
I'm 55. I love the game. I play to a 6. I watched and learned from Arnie, Jack, Trevino, Watson, Norman, Strange, Faldo, and Seve. Tiger is the best I've ever seen. He brings football/basketball athleticisim and competiveness to the great game of golf.
I was pulling for Rocco. Tiger will win many more majors. This was Rocco's shot. His loss will be viewed and replayed 20 years from now. It's a bit like the Tin Cup approach shot at his US Open. "they'll never forget this."
Tiger never has to hit another golf shot and his grandchildren are set for life. He doesn't play for money. What a competitor.
Wow, this has gotten out of hand. All this bickering and I think everyone agrees with the premise of the original post: the media is making way too much of the bum knee thing.
I am sure it is hard to play 8 weeks after surgery and thus it deserves to be mentioned but it probably doesn't need to be compared to Gibby or Willis Reed and especially the heroic performance by Paul Pierce rolling out of his death bed and into game 1.
Tiger, Strug, Gibson, Willis - none of them compare to the Japanese Olympic gymnast 30 years ago or so who did his final rings routine, including dismount, with a broken leg, so that his team could win the gold.
I would like to offer the idea that criticism of the media is not unanimous. I feel like Johnny Miller did the best job of analysis and insight that I've ever heard. He called it like it happened both good and bad.
He certainly didn't sound like a shill when he pointed out the poor decision of Tiger to hit a wood for a second shot on a par five. Miller called it a poor decision before the results (a double bogey) were in.
Many times he gave a strong possibility of what would happen. He gave the reasons and insights for his predictions, and it was unbelievable to me how many times he was proved correct.
Johnny Miller, thank you for helping me understand the nuances of the finest tournament I've ever seen.
old coach, that's a good point. Miller definitely called out Tiger and Williams on a few of those decisions, even before the shot was hit.
I can't believe you idiots have been arguing about this for 10 hours. What a bunch of losers!
Opinion: Tiger is (by far) the best golfer in the world. Opinion: The fawning coverage of the US Open made it difficult to watch.
Opinion: Off the course and during interviews, Tiger seems very professional and courteous. On the course, he sometimes acts like a petulant jerk.
Fact: The media's swooning over Tiger's "awe-inspiring" effort will be on the airways for months/years. My golf watching days are diminishing.
I agree with anonymous. How could you sit there for so many hours and argue about something so trivial?
Well, for three of us: it's our blog so we have to check it anyway.
<3 the site guys. funny stuff.
However, I think Tiger is worse than "Brett Farve plays with grit," I think Woods might very well be capable of killing millions:
http://grittyandclutch.blogspot.com/2008/06/darth-tiger-orders-destruction-of.html
And just what does Tiger being able to win the U.S. Open when he's on a bum knee say about the competition ... the supposedly other "professional" golfers? NOT MUCH!!!!!!!!!! Tiger's good, but he had very, very little competition, except for Rocco.
Fuck tigger, faggot.
it never fails to amaze me.........................................
how many LOSER ASSHOLES have nothing better to do than put someone down..........
excellence is to be honored..to be aspired to..
to be celebrated......but you assholes wouldn't understand that...........if you can't say something good about someone......you shouldn't open your
mouth...because everyone knows that the only thing that comes out of assholes is foul air (like your breath)
and stinking garbage shit.........
Tiger is the greatest golfer that ever lived...........
and a wonderful human being............
do something good assholes ........or just go get fucked..........
Well I guess faking all that pain is what put him out for the rest of the year right morons????????
You already know I agree that if you feel like you are less of a person because of someone elses greatness you should work on improving yourself, not belittling others.
Tiger has a stress fracture and now needs ACL surgery. He was faking eh???!!!
Who will you make fun of next???
Amen. This post was terrible. I read when it was posted and knew that whoever wrote it didn't watch golf regularly and hadn't followed Tiger's career or the U.S. Open broadcast. The points about the fawning coverage of Tiger may be generally true, though Johnny Miller (as previous commenters have pointed out) constantly calls out poor swings or decisions by Tiger during this event and others.
I believe the real purpose of this post was to belittle golf in relation to other sports like football which are assumed to involve more athletic activity and a higher degree of "toughness". It's hard to imagine an unathletic person creating the kind of torque and resulting swing speed that Tiger does, and we've seen today that fewer athletes in history are tougher. The man played since 2007 with a ruptured ACL and he played with a double tibial stress fracture this week. Let's put this one to bed. Thanks for your insightful post, guys.
It's hard to imagine an unathletic person creating the kind of torque and resulting swing speed that Tiger does
John Daly.
For those who insist on putting golf down as non-athletic and cite John Daly as an admittedly unathletic example--please also think of Craig "the Walrus" Stafler--I can only point out that the NFL's offensive linemen are basically the same thing when compared to the real athletes in football. The OL are just really huge out of shape guys who are only athletic enough to move a few yards at a time. They look a lot like walruses fighting.
So I guess under the theory that JD is not an athlete therefore all golfers are not athletes as a matter of law, all NFLers must also not be athletes since the OL looks like blown up versions of JD.
The people sticking up for Tiger Woods are jokes. Yeah he can beat me at golf, but I would crush him in tennis, you know a sport that actually requires physical movement.
Secondly, most golf fans are supporting the sport because either
A) They are rich and can't think of something better to do
B) Have too much free time.
C) Are too unathletic to play a real sport
And those fat offensive lineman you are talking about, how much more can they bench than a golfer of the same size?
How much faster do they run the 40 yard dash than those golfers?
Hell I bet half the NFL's offensive lineman can run faster 40's than most of you golf supporting nuts.
Some role model. I don't think he has any brains. You don't bugger about while having a wife and kids.
Tiger Woods is an adulterous asshole scumbag. Gatorade dropped his ass and the rest of his endorsements should too.
This guy's days are numbered. He ruined a good thing, a gift, a beautiful family.
Tiger, your wife, Elin, will move on. But, the kids, Tiger, the kids!
I hope all three will find a better man to love and appreciate them all.
Tiger is a loser. A fucking loser.
Tiger woods must now be considered the biggest asshole on the planet. A talented, truly gifted individual who overcame racism in one of the most elitist sports and old boys clubs in the world, set up a foundation and preached family values and self respect to kids who idolised him, a man who gained wealth beyond his wildest dreams and had a mother and father that sacrificed much of their own lives to help him become an icon around the world who transcended his sport, not to mention lands a swedish goddess for a wife and gets 2 gorgeous kids from the marriage, goes and screws it all up because he can't keep his dick in his pants! What an absolute dickhead, 2 faced, scumbag of the highest order!!! And by the way I used to think he was ace but I guess you can tell I won't be walking 5 miles behind the prick on a golf course any more or spending my hard earned money on any of his merchandise. Another example of do as I say and not as I do celebrities, sports stars and politician types.
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