This week concluded the three month long silence from Tiger Woods after his one love affair spiraled into many. After crashing his car with a mystery woman, Tiger Woods has been almost shunned from society. The accident only triggered for plenty of other women to come out and confess their love affairs with the golfer. This week, Tiger gave a 14 minute apology speech to his fans and ex-sponsorers. I wanted to highlight how the Tiger Woods apology speech was written, and how one of the reaction articles was written. The apology was written in such a nonchalant way that it did not even seem like Woods was apologizing to the public. Moreover, it seemed as though he was just confessing what the public already knew but giving a few more facts. He blamed his actions on his money and fame, but never came out and apologized saying that he loved his wife and children. This reaction article dissected Tiger’s speech and highlighted to validity, along with irrational points that Tiger rose. This author emphasizes how Tiger managed to make his speech all about him to make himself the victim, which I didn’t really notice when I watched the apology.
You know, everyone is talking about Tiger Woods and how he looks like such a great guy and that no one knew he was a “sex addict”. I didn’t watch his speech but I have heard about it.
A man’s life is destroyed and more importantly his wife, his kids and their extended families are suffering a public embarrassment the likes of which none of us can imagine. Sometimes I think people should just be left alone to work out their demons. I feel bad for the the guy, I mean yes his life was great and then he messed up BIG, but I think they live with such an excessive amount of money that only the strongest can actually stay normal.
It’s hard to not let it go “to your head” and it’s hard to remember at the end of the day your just a guy when the whole world is watching and telling you how awesome you are…you begin to believe your own hype. Im not condoning what he did at all, it’s definitelty not ok, but at the same time I can’t help but feel for him and his family. He messed up, he messed up big but it’s not for us to judge whether his apology was sincere…we don’t even know him.
I agree with the comment above me.. at the same time though, if you want to sleep around that’s fine, just don’t get married. Tiger chose his life – if he wants to have sex with a hundred women, go for it, but he shouldn’t have gotten married. Then again no one really knows the true story but him, I guess. I also don’t think his personal life should really be any of the public’s concern.. he’s an athlete. It’s not like he’s our president.
Do you agree with that analysis of Tiger’s speech? Careful of grammatical errors and errors of fact — Tiger did not crash his car with a mystery woman. 3/5.