Sure, the man has continually made over $100 million per year, mainly due to his endorsements.
He is the face of the PGA Tour, Buick, Gatorade, Nike and Gillette.
And yes he is the first athlete to become a billionaire.
But how far is too far?
Can you even remember how this incident even started? It seems like a month ago when
I remember seeing the first report about the initial car accident.
The only information that was known was that he had crashed his Escalade into a fire hydrant and a tree and said to be bleeding in the mouth.
Later we found out that his wife, Elin, had smashed out his window with a golf club to rescue her husband.
As the sports world awoke on November 27, nothing but negative news was streamed across the country.
He didn’t help himself by cancelling consecutive meetings to talk with the police the incident, and has only reached the media through his website. But probably his best option at that point.
Tiger was forced to pull out of his own charity event, at his golf own golf tournament.
Rumors about Tiger having an affair led up to at least 10 women linked to his sexual affairs.
Text messages and voice mails bought and distributed by TMZ, National Enquirer and US Weekly has turned an “accident” into a nightmare for the billion dollar man.
Since the accusations, Gatorade has discontinued the “Gatorade Tiger Focus” sports drink. Woods signed a five-year contract worth an estimated $100 million in 2007 with Gatorade.
The best thing for Tiger is to answer the questions, and lay low for a while.
Because fans will forgive any athlete that admits to his mistake.
Hopefully for Tiger’s sake, he didn’t make too many mistakes.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
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I totally think that he deserves some privacy.
ReplyDeleteI understand that he is a public figure, and that some of the actions taken after the accident seemed suspicious. But honestly, we as a society need to get over it.
He is still a great athlete and people need to remember that, it makes me sad that people judge others so harshly.
I think that he and his family deserve some privacy.
Amanda,
ReplyDeleteI do agree with you but this is the life of someone famous. Honestly it's nearly impossible for them to not be in the spotlight, which stinks that his occupation requires his business to be put in the public eye almost. While I don't watch or like golf, I do know he's an outstanding athlete. But, he does know that there are consequences for his actions, whether the people becoming involved in his story have the right to do so or not.
I am a little torn on this topic. For starters, he is a celebrity. He chose to be in the limelight. When you are making billions of dollars, provided by the public, you life is going to be in focus. Thats just how it goes. However, its unfortunate that this is how life is. That in order to make all this money, Tiger has to have his private life on TV. Tiger however got caught. Got caught and exposed and well, obviously he didnt plan his leisons a little better.
ReplyDeleteHe seems to have decide to take himself out of the public for a little while, at least, and that might be a good decision.
ReplyDeleteWell I guess now that he is caught, he has to try and keep his family together. This is what you get for trying to be too private..
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