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To: MamaB

Not to be flip, but seriously, who in their right mind makes a role model out of a athelete or actor?

Mickey Mantle? Frank Sinatra?

players and loved for their playing. Tiger created an image that he couldn’t live up to.


62 posted on 12/12/2009 8:55:36 PM PST by Porterville ( I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum)
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To: Porterville

Compare and contrast with Wilt Chamberlain. Nobody really cares about Wilt Chamberlain never marrying and sleeping around.

Tiger’s ultimate crime in the court of public opinion is being a phoney. If he never married and carried himself about in the very same manner, nobody really would care.


67 posted on 12/12/2009 8:59:03 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Porterville
Millions and millions of kids had Roy and Dale as role models. You are apparently too young to realize what an influence they had on kids of the 40’s and 50’s. Roy would not do things that might have a negative influence on his fans. How many actors do that today?
80 posted on 12/12/2009 9:10:17 PM PST by MamaB (If you see someone without a smile, give them yours.)
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