Tiger Woods’ Public Statement: If You’ve Seen One, You’ve Seen ‘Em All

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Published: February 19, 2010

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I hadn’t planned on watching one second of the Tiger Woods press conference apology—but in all honesty, it did manage to find its way onto a TV near me.

However, nothing changed the way I think about the whole situation—and there’s one reason why that is...puppeteering.

Behind every legendary athlete there’s an individual (or team) of PR folks that treat the person like a complete puppet. They haphazardly tug at the sticks and make the person’s every move.

These speeches are scripted—and done so very carefully. In many cases, Woods robotically read from the multi-paged statement that he delivered.

If you’ve seen one apologetic press conference, you’ve seen them all.

Sure, there may be a hint of remorse in there somewhere, but the fact of the matter of this—if he hadn’t been caught, Tiger Woods would still be doing what he was doing. It’s the same story as Michael Vick, who openly admitted he’d likely still be involved in dogfighting if he hadn’t been caught.

It’s the same story with so many others—Mark McGwire, Alex Rodriguez, Marion Jones—just to name a few. There are so many, the names just roll off the tongue.

And so here we are with Tiger Woods—the golf legend, the one who saved golf, the true family man—go ahead and toss out all the lines that were hurled in his direction for so many years of his career.

Instead, we see him delivering a far from heartfelt apology—at least when viewed from these eyes. In fact, the biggest emotion was anger—mostly delivered in the direction of the paparazzi that have often been borderline stalking his wife and children over these last few months.

Now here you are Tiger—you can be lump-summed into that boat of apologies that all get intertwined together like a poorly dubbed ‘80s mix tape.

All in all, it comes down to two things for me.

First and foremost, ...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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