Has everyone heard Tiger Woods’s apology? If not, find it above or read the transcript here.
I heard Tiger getting slammed on talk radio while driving to work today. People were saying that he was insincere, that he turned it into a scolding of the media, and that he was only sorry for getting caught. Although I agree that he was scolding the media at times, I thought he was being sincere about saving his marriage. I actually would have expected a bit of hubris in the faces of those who outed him, as hubris tends to be typical from guys who make the kind of money he does. As I’ve said in the past, I think he cheated with some pretty trashy looking women who are not up to what one would expect from the world’s highest paid athlete, but…to each his own. The more important question is whether he can save his marriage and continue to do good things for his sport and for education.
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I didn’t listen to the whole thing but heard snippets on NPR and other talk radios.
I guess I never understood why celebrities/sports people had to apologize to the public when they cheat on their wives… um, apologize to your wives. They are the only ones who can forgive them… or run their SUVs off their driveway.
I don’t care if he cheated on his wife – yes, my personal opinion of him has changed a little but I had no personal expectations of his behavior. That said, I guess if my child looked up to him as a role model, I’d be disappointed… yet I wouldn’t think he owed it to me personally to not cheat on his wife. I don’t know, I just think the public gets way too involved with celebrity personal life and feels entitled to their lives. Woods is a golfer. If I were a golf-channel watcher, I’d expect him to entertain me with a great game.
I mean, come on, the great Michael Jordan cheated on his wife – but he still is THE Michael Jordan on the basketball court. As a husband… meh, he needs to work on that.
“I guess I never understood why celebrities/sports people had to apologize to the public when they cheat on their wives… um, apologize to your wives.”
Mama, I think it’s more a case of publicly humiliating your family deserves (at the very least) a public acknowledgement of culpability and remorse. It’s difficult to move on when the entire world has heard that your loved one totally disrespected you, on the 6:00 pm news, and then the apology for it comes quietly across the kitchen table las if it were a secret.
I honestly don’t care. Its none of our business. Tiger shouldn’t have to apologize to anyone but his family. Yes, what he did was wrong but this was 4 months ago. Let it go people.
Tiger Woods is a very good golfer but his reputation as a cheating husband made him a bad character.`.-