(Video) Tiger Woods Doesn't Owe ANYONE But His Family An Apology! - @ChrisHarrisNFL
by ChrisHarris on Feb 20, 2010 9:56 AM EST
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Wanna see how I act when I get fired-up over something? ...Yeah? Then check out this video where I rant about Tiger Woods' unnecessary "responsibility" to have to apologize to the world for his recent intolerable behaviors...
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I imagine most people agree with you Chris...including myself
but if he didn’t address the situation then the media would never let it go (maybe they still won’t). Also, if he doesn’t apologize in public then maybe his fans might think less of him going forward? Maybe his wife required it as part of the reconciliation. In essence maybe he was serving notice to all those women (might have been more we didn’t hear about) that he has truly put that lifestyle behind him. I guy has to be pretty vain to think he could have relations with so many women and nobody would find out. Also, I found his use of the word ‘entitled’ interesting in describing why he did it. I wonder if other successful athletes/entertainers also felt the same way to justify immoral actions?
I found it very uncomfortable to watch too Chris. I felt sorry for the guy that he had to admit his errors and faults on international TV. He did a good job of defending his wife too so we need to consider that was a big part of the speech. So I thought he ‘manned up’ well regardless of whether he really had to and so when he does choose to play golf again I will be ready to watch him do what he does best…spank that little white ball like no one else!
Thanks for the vid Chris…good stuff
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Just worth noting...
It was also possibly fewer women than we heard about. At some point in the midst of the hype, I felt that I could pretty much have made a presser that said I had an affair with Tiger and had people believe it.
Advance apologies if the contents of this sports-based post offended you. I'm just aiming to educate the masses. My law professor says they're asses.
by MichaelProcton on Feb 20, 2010 6:05 PM EST up reply actions
yeah you are right
me personally I really don’t care who or what he does as far as his marriage, for one I’m football fan (go panthers) and two what he does does’nt effect me in any way. If I was tiger I would have gotten up there and said the samething you said curse words and all. thats all I have to say about that. Now for some foootball dude when are you going to the probowl, you are like one of the most feared safties in the league no one else can sport that name the hitman you own it. make everyone suffer until they send you an invite
YOU CAN GET THE PAW
by the BlackPanther on Feb 20, 2010 1:22 PM EST reply actions
You're so correct, Chris.
You put it perfectly… I was at work and overheard it on television, thought it was some BS honestly. Just like you said, “they are humans”.
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Amen.
Couldn’t agree with you more. If parents decided that an athlete they’ll never know or even meet could serve as a better role model than they could when they’re directly involved in their kid’s day every day, that’s nobody’s problem but theirs.
Advance apologies if the contents of this sports-based post offended you. I'm just aiming to educate the masses. My law professor says they're asses.
Man....I know I should probably keep my freakin' mouth shut on this, but I'm gonna interject....
I agree with everything everyone above is saying…but c’mon folks…. don’t you think Tiger has to make this apology on his own behalf and for his is own benefit (and his family’s benefit) to try to begin the process of restoring his public image and to someday maintain or regain his multi-million dollar endorsement and advertising deals.
Don’t get me wrong here….I’m not questioning his sincerity, because. even though its none of my business, I do believe he truly does regret what he’s done to his familiy and will do everything he can to make things right in that regard. But, Chris, with all due respect…..to compare Tiger to an everyday “John Doe” is a really bad analogy for the reasons expressed above.
Once again, I agree with everyone here; he owes nothing to anyone except for himself and his family….and I believe that his apology was made more for that benefit than as a result of a need to satisfy the thirst of the blood sucking media and public. At least I hope thats the case and I hope things work out for him.
I agree with you.
I was considering an addendum to my comment along these lines. It’s certainly true that Woods was getting a lot of external pressure…from his sponsors, from sports commentators, from the public at large. At the end of the day, these are the people who are paying his generous salary. However, I think Chris Harris’ comparison to John Doe is imminently applicable. Woods’ actions and behavior in his personal life are no more our business than any other athlete, our next door neighbor, our favorite bagger at the grocery store, our county sheriff, or the guy who runs by our house on his morning jog at 6:30 every day. If he’s not breaking any laws or hurting any of us (and as far as we’re aware, he’s not), who gives a shit?
Advance apologies if the contents of this sports-based post offended you. I'm just aiming to educate the masses. My law professor says they're asses.
by MichaelProcton on Feb 20, 2010 6:13 PM EST up reply actions
MP I agree in principle with you, but to answer your question"Who gives a shit?"…
I would say the companies that pay or may potentially pay Tiger big bucks to endorse their products or services …and thats why I think Harris’ analogy of Tiger’s situation to the average John Doe doesn’t work in this situation.
I get what you're saying..
And I’d understand if he wanted to apologize to those companies but, as far as I know, I’m not paying for any of his endorsements, thus I feel no need for him to apologize to me. I suppose anyone that can say they’re paying his bills could ask for an apology for potentially damaging their image but, beyond that, he owes nothing to the rest of us.
That’d be like a car salesman wrecking a car at the dealership in which he works then apologizing to the store clerk down the street on his way home.
If it made him ‘feel better’, though, more power to him.
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He never aplolgized to US, anyway.
He was basically, with all his ‘sorries’, apologizing to his sponsors (tho he was the bigger loser there, not them), his foundation recipients (tho his claim of having helped “millions” of kids to have a better life is a bit preposterous and typically egotistical), his employees (all those dependent on him for their saIaries, such as those foundation workers), and lastly his family — and there again, he already said his apology to his wife wouldn’t be with words, but actions, so why’s he even bothering to say it to her?
If it takes a man almost 3 months to acknowledge his mistakes, and then he’s got to stage it with a select audience of rapt listeners, slurping up all he says, and takes no questions, it’s all just another photo op for him. The speech was read from the written page; why not just issue it in writing? Why make a spectacle of himself, and make every media outlet cover him reading something? I don’t buy what he’s now selling, any more than I bought the squeaky clean image he was selling before. The guy’s a hound who ran on his wife for a long period of time, with a lot of skanks and party girls, all the while preaching pure role model to his sponsors and those “millions” of kids who looked on him as a God.
He thought he was “entitled” after all his years of “hard work.” Give me a break. What “work” did he ever do? Just because you’re the best in the world at a sport doesn’t entitle you to anything! He wasn’t even smart about what he did, with all the cell phone evidence he left around , for his wife to find, and his bimbos to publish. Those Vegas party rooms aren’t exactly private, either. It’s another example of an immature kid subconsciously testing his boundaries until he gets inevitably caught at it. And at 30, he shouldn’t BE a kid. If he were single, no big deal. Have at it. But he’s not, and he wasn’t. A serial adulterer shouldn’t be given any pass for pretending that “family comes first,” as he always said, and his sponsors sold.
So now he pays the price. He gets what he deserves. I am not sorry for him one bit — take it like the man you aren’t, buddy.
And the longer he waits to get back out there on the course (where he knows he ain’t gonna get the respectful, worshipful adoration anymore), the harder it’s gonna be to recreate the magic. And if he doesn’t, or can’t, the snakes are gonna crawl in his head, over those crucial 6 foot putts he always used to make, until he’s just another pro out there. You think those other guys out on the tour aren’t just itching to see him out there, so they can lord it over him? And beat his ass?
If Woods has provided free lessons to millions, why is it preposterous?
Surely these camps (as with any famous athlete’s), have taught not only fundamentals for the sport in question, but also life lessons.
As to “preaching pure role model,” what exactly has he done to do that?
And you’re certainly right about what work he has or hasn’t done. Clearly he didn’t develop whatever talents and abilities he may have. He was simply granted them at birth, and has done his best to take advantage of them.
And finally, excellent point about a man’s ability to make mistakes and change to be better than he is. He’ll never be anything more than what he was given, because he’s just not good enough to embody it. You’ on the other hand, have things all figured out.
Thank you, you large davis, for casting that first stone. We’re all impressed by your moral high road.
Advance apologies if the contents of this sports-based post offended you. I'm just aiming to educate the masses. My law professor says they're asses.
by MichaelProcton on Feb 22, 2010 2:24 AM EST up reply actions
Interesting how most of us find his apology believable.
Most of the women I know don’t. Apart from that, I’m with the crowd here, as a person he doesn’t owe us any apologies. He should be ashamed of what he did, being an athlete, even in a sport such as golf, means that you are held to a higher standard than others. Is that fair? No, but it’s the way things go. So as an athlete and role model, the apology is fine, and I also believe it’s good therapy for him. I learned recently that when you air your dirty laundry and let others know about it, it really liberates you and sets you free. So from that point of view, the apology was fine, it wasn’t overkill, it wasn’t unecessary. I believe he did it because he wanted to, to start the healing process.
The early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Tiger’s problem is he’s the face of his particular sport, so everything he does is put under the magnifying glass. That’s why Peyton Manning’s reaction after the Super Bowl loss faced more scrutiny than usual, that’s why any time Sidney Crosby lets his anger get the better of him on the ice everyone’s talking about it, and that’s why Serena Williams’ verbal tirade caused a media bru ha ha.
The real crime here is that this kind of nonsense takes attention away from legitimate news.
My mother was telling me how she was watching this news story on a little kid getting a hold of a live grenade and activating it, apparently blowing his hand—-BREAKING NEWS TIGER WOODS APOLOGIZES!!!
That’s exactly how it went, too.
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I agree with the vast majority of people
Did Tiger Woods commit a crime? No… so why should he apologize to the world? Did he do anything wrong to society? Absolutely not.
Should he privately apologize to his wife, his family and the PGA for shedding a negative light on the sport and bringing negative publicity? Sure.
Should he privately apologize to his sponsors to whom he created a PR and marketing problem? Sure.
As for me, as for the average Joe… I need no apology, I need no admission of guilt of promise of reformation. He merely did something that is (unfortunately) a commonplace act in modern society.
Personally, he should have held the press conference to say when he was coming back to Golf… nothing more, nothing less.
Cat Scratch Reader's resident optimist.
lerbron gets bs for wearing a yankee hat
But well said chris. Who give a damn? Let the man be a man and handle his. How does it go?..let he who is without sin cast the first stone…something like that. He screwed up so what
Richardson you better not screw this up for me!
by STEVEN 785 on Feb 22, 2010 12:01 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
*lebron
Richardson you better not screw this up for me!
by STEVEN 785 on Feb 22, 2010 12:02 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
Okay...now I'm a little more pissed
after hearing a 2nd of his trists (Jamie J) say he owes them an apology. Now that is total crap. All of them knew he was married just as much as he did. If anything they owe his wife and family an apology. They had just as much opportunity to say ‘No’ as Tiger did. They just need to shut up.
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