Tiger Woods & Elin Nordegren Announce Their Divorce

Oooo – nice dodge. sorry – I’m not in the masses that just can’t live without taking shots at Woods. I don’t care how much money he makes. I don’t care how what he is giving Elin and the kids. I don’t care where he will live. I don’t care who he socializes with. I don’t care what he drives or flies or sails.

You can call my ability to mind my own business “living in la-la land” if you want – but it doesn’t change the fact that none of this is our business. Just because the media understands that large numbers of people will always pay to find out about the fall of a celebrity and get all the juicy tidibits doesn’t make it right or good.

You can even sue Nike for false advertising like a company has sued Tiki Barber for portraying himself as a family man in their ads while cheating on his wife with an intern (although I doubt you would get far; the Nike ads basically said ‘used these clubs and you can play like Tiger’ not ‘use these clubs and you won’t cheat on your wife with the waitress from Perkins’).

What you do not have the right to do is get every personal detail of Tiger’s family life. It may fall into your lap, but you have no rights to it.

then why do you sell the stuff? Why not take the moral high ground and remove if from your store?

Just a couple of observations – Tiger may be the biggest name on the Nike roster, but he’s not the only one. (personally, I still want the big Grace Park end poster) :-) Second – Tiger doesn’t make the clubs – he barely uses Nike manufactured clubs. His irons are hand ground in Tennessee, and his woods are specially made. Bridgestone makes the Nike golf balls. All of this mess he has made of his life doesn’t affect how Nike equipment plays in the least. (the TW wedges are top notch) The only thing putting someone’s name on a product does is to draw attention so people will give it a try. Somehow I doubt that people are thinking that if they use Nike clubs, their marriage will break up. :-)

Sure we want to know. The National Enquirer and magazines of that ilk have made their fortunes on that fact. In Tiger’s case in particular (and celebrities in general), we are not the injured party.

Even if you totally buy the argument that the public bought into Tiger’s carefully orchestrated public persona, exactly where is the harm to the public finding out that persona is a lie?

Perhaps not in that exact wording, but I can’t count how many times, (including this very blog) posters have laid out this b.s about him “being a pubic figure makes it our business”. Simple, don’t buy his products, (most of you don’t anyway) and turn the channel if you want when he’s playing. But none of us have any right, or in any way “deserve” to know private details beyond what he’s stated. End of story. I understand this “tabloid mentality” isn’t going to stop, but that doesn’t mean it’s right or justified. Enough is enough.