Taming Tiger’s Tiger

Lately I’ve been hearing a lot of comedians ask the audience, “Do we really care about Tiger Woods?”  The audience always responds in the negative, but when they go home, get into bed, pop open the laptop, they’re going to PerezHilton.com to check out the latest mistress that’s stepped forward.  

Of course we’re interested!  The question that should be asked is, “Why are we surprised that we’re this interested in the Tiger Woods story?”  It’s actually a pretty amazing story if you think about it.  

• A young man becomes an expert golf player at a ridiculously young age.
• He’s black, breaking barriers at country clubs around the world, and dashing stereotypes left and right.
• He wins big, again and again and again.
• His dad dies, he cries, we cry.
• He marries a gorgeous blond, has kids.
• He inspires people across the world!

And then we learn he’s a sex addict, cheats on his wife regularly, and is no different then most other douche bag athletes out there who feel they are above everybody else, and thus can do whatever they want.  This isn’t a necessarily bad state-of-mind, it’s the way of the beast.  We amped him up, we gave him this big head.  He was going to receive the Congressional Gold Medal because we hyped him up so much!  

So we find he’s human.  He likes to get his freak on with people other then his wife.  He has a big head and does whatever he wants (or rather, whomever).  It’s fascinating people!  Just like watching Britney’s demise a couple years ago was fascinating, or Lindsay Lohan, etc.  Except in the case of Tiger, he’s legitimately talented, which makes the story more unfortunate, but also more interesting!

The story will play itself out.  Oprah will interview, he’ll admit his addictions, lose a couple of lucrative contracts, and then win another big game in a year and be back on top again.  As for us, maybe in a year when he’s back on top, instead of getting metaphorically teabagged by his greatness, maybe we’ll look at him for what he is: a dude with a problem, who has a great talent, and a big head, but we’ll look past that, because his talent is so awesome!