Posted on 12/13/2009 8:37:44 AM PST by nickcarraway
One of the world's most scrutinized professional athletes, with a pristine image, has been keeping infidelity under wraps. Many wonder how he pulled it off.
As the carefully constructed public image of Tiger Woods continued its excruciating free fall last week, one question perplexed those who think there should have been hints of trouble: How was it possible for Woods, among the world's most scrutinized professional athletes, to keep his infidelity secret for so long?
Just about everyone is at a loss: the golf writers who banter with Woods (when he allows it), golf fanatics who can tell you which way his golf ball's Nike logo was facing when Woods chipped it into the 16th hole in the final round of the 2005 Masters, paparazzi whose paid informants can sniff out a straying spouse a mile away.
How was Woods, 33, able to maintain a pristine image as a loving husband, father and son that was apparently at raging odds with his private life?
Some say Woods' famously controlling nature allowed him to philander unsuspected. (On Friday he admitted publicly that he had cheated on his wife.) Some wonder whether intimidated golf reporters never pressed Woods because they did not want to risk losing the little access they had to the sport's premier practitioner. Some believe that fellow players, had they suspected, would have kept mum because of Woods' beneficial effect on TV ratings, their earnings and public interest in golf.
Others think the singular nature of professional golf itself made it possible for Woods to create a nearly impenetrable zone of privacy -- or secrecy.
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Somewhere where no one would ever see him.
Somewhere that if they saw it they wouldn't believe it.
Center stage on the Keith Olberman Show.
I suspect that he is not a conservative republican.
All of his friends should now be suspect also. How could they not have known what was going on? Were they involved in any way? Their wives will demand answers and keep a closer watch on their husband's activities.
Tiger has been able to get away with this sleazy behavior because many people will excuse anything if they feel that they somehow benefit from that person's overall success. The same sorts of scandals happen everyday on college campuses (mainly football and basketball players raping and assaulting other students). Yet every game day, the boosters are out there in force cheering on their team, and if someone got beat up raped well that's too bad. So and so is a great ball player and the victim probably deserved what happened to them! The celebrity worship of many American's is disgusting.
Tiger was supposed to be different. He wasn't from the ghetto. His parents raised his "right". He went to Stanford! Well, he is the same as most of the other high profile athletes that American's worship. Scum.
How did Tiger learn to work the system? Well he had a few mentor's of course. MJ & CB and many others I'm sure.
When is it OK to not mind your own business?
I bet his wife knew all along. She just didn’t want to face the truth.
I think Shaq lives in the community....wonder where he was that night.
If she didn’t, she certainly figured it out by Thanksgiving.
Exactly, this is just like the treatment given Dear Leader — not that their activities are the same but it’s the same dynamic — protection by the media itself — and the handlers and PGA in the nasty Woods case.
I find it all sickening and am glad he will be gone from the tour for a few months. He is an embarrassment and huge disappointment to those who did view him as a role model.
I was not among them but my intense dislike was from his behaviors on the courses he played in tourneys; had nothing to do with his so-called private life. To me, he is a total loser all the way around.
Tiger was sleeping with a bunch of whores...A few more weeks and a few more “story bucks” for the girls...and he’ll get a receipt “Paid in Full”.
I agree with you both. He certainly had the means to keep this on the down low. Why should she suspect anything when he probably laid it on so thick out of guilt that it caused her to remain head-over-heels in love and thought he was too. They were really still newly-weds anyway, 5 yrs. married. I can’t imagine the shock she had and is still having. Apparently, Woods is expert at compartmentaling his life.
I agree! It did make me laugh...”Brotherhood of the d..k”
Yeah right. It's the 'hater's' fault that Tiger is a low life. It's the 'racist's' fault that Tiger was running around on his wife with porn actresses and prostitutes.
This is not misfortune. This is just desserts brought about by bad behavior.
“Enablers. His wife had to have known something..”
“You don’t think her reaction indicates that she knew nothing about the “girls?”
I think she is surprised, hurt and through with him. I think she probably feels like a fool for trusting his hype.”
I think that about sums it up.
But I also think that right now there might be a lot of uneasy famous golfers hoping no one looks at them too closely.
ESPN is very desirous that a black “athlete” do well.
The MEDIA covered for him and he paid people off. No surprise at all.
No kidding.....the one girl said they went out to DINNER!!!
She might be. But if she is so through with him, why did she want an extra 55 mil to stay for 2 years?
No way.......NO wife...NONE...not even Hillary would allow them to bring the other women into their own BED.....She didn’t know...I would bet $1000.00.
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