Did Tiger Show His Real Stripes?

I’m not a golf fan.

I can’t even name the top five golfers in the U.S. or even in the world. See, watching men and women hit a little white ball multiple times with the end goal of trying to land it in a tin cup just doesn’t have the same appeal of watching say … a hockey game. Personally, I rather watch guys slam each other into the Plexiglas than high five their overpaid caddy on the neatly trimmed fairways of Augusta.

So as I found myself watching Tiger Woods’ “apology/statement” this morning on TV, I found myself wondering what all the hype is about. So the guy cheated on his wife with strippers, or more specifically, stripper wannabees (Have you seen some of those women? Half of them look like the cast of MTV’s Jersey Shore!)

Then I got sucked in.

In the Eye of the Tiger

I even felt myself “throwing up a little in my mouth” (to use a great quote from the movie “Dodgeball”) when he spoke of his wife’s great poise throughout this ordeal. What is she supposed to do? Swing at him with a golf club as parodied on Saturday Night Live (here’s the clip---very funny). All the woman is trying to do is hide from the media storm caused by her husband who apparently can’t keep his junk zipped up until he got home from the country club.

His overblown ego still came oozing through my T.V. I’m wondering how his MOTHER is sitting in the front row listening to all this. What did he tell her when all of these women were coming out of the wood work? Now that would be some good reality TV…

Back to Reality

I don’t care about Tiger Woods.

The man does not live in a normal, everyday reality like his fans who pay good money to watch him swing at a little white ball. He’s never had to deal with losing a job. Ok, so he lost some endorsements. But it hasn’t affected him at all. (In fact, he just bought a new yacht, the “Privacy II”). He doesn't live on the same playing field as the rest of us who have to worry about paying the bills, or say, taking care of a family member who is sick. He hires people to do that.

Maybe if he had to "man up" and take care of his family he’d recognize the blessings in his life and be grateful for being "Tiger Woods".

So, did Tiger show his true stripes this morning like his handlers had hoped? Absolutely not. His ego is still overinflated. I just hope Elin peels them off one by one in divorce court.