We should be ashamed...we should have known better. When the world gasped collectively, pondering the condition of our beloved Tiger Woods after crashing his SUV...less than a few feet from his home...into a tree?
Something didn't seem right then. Why did it take an ENTIRE day to get the update on his condition. Was he drunk? Was he driving? What were they covering up? It wasn't until day's later we found out that Tiger was trying to escape his Nordic queen Elin and made an error in driving judgment. Maybe because he was dodging a 'driver' himself. 
Tiger Woods, PGA Champion, Gillette spokesman, Gatorade Power Drink, EA Sports Game hero. He made Nike Golf popular...hell he made Golf popular. The only reason anyone I know knows anything about golf is because of the "Cablanasian" boy wonder who's been swinging the iron since he could carry a bag.
But he broke the hearts of millions. Not with his inability to make par or a Eagle when behind. It was his infidelity.
HOW DARE YOU TIGER!
You made us love you when we thought you were the sweet, big-toothed boy next door. You would never hurt us. But you did. You cheated. So for weeks I had to get sophmoronic text messages talking about how "Tiger is really a Cheetah!".
Cute.
But why is this news? Between the issues in Haiti, the Supreme Court's flawed decision making ability and all things Obama and politics related. Why do we care so much about what a sports figure does off the links?
He's an athlete. Akin to a rockstar, married or not; the truth is he probably has groupies in more states than they have golf courses. Just beyond the rope there are throngs of women waiting to sleep with Tiger. So why is anyone surprised he's swinging Wood at more than one hole? He could've been like Kobe and went straight for the back 9. Which brings me to another point...
Kobe? Extramarital affair ("I thought it was consensual") with a young white woman in Colorado.
Jordan? Extramarital affair that put Jordan in the dog house
Magic? He stepped out on his wife, he slept with so many women he contracted HIV...which has "magically" disappeared.
Shaq? He's slept with everyone from Superhead (Karen Steffans) to Agent Zero's wife. Seemingly he sleeps with everyone but his own wife.
But why stop at athletes? Bill Clinton, John Edwards and countless others who chalk it up to everything from momentary weakness to sex addiction. The bottom line is, men are only as faithful as their options. These powerful men who are revered in film, magazines, television and sports are afforded with WAY more options than law should allow. I don't tolerate infidelity by any stretch of the imagination, but I can completely see how temptation can get the best of you, especially when that ego is talking bigger than your conscious and you've never been caught. No wonder Tiger ammassed 11+ bust-down lovers.
Tiger is no different. Why are his indiscretions prime for public inquiry? It's not a question of fairness. He's a private person, but the minute you become famous that's done son. But dang. So long as that doesn't effect his ability to get from the tee to the green? Leave that man alone! He's saying he doesn't know if he'll come back to Golf now. But that's the media's fault. I wonder if he would have been able to handle it privately would that even be on his mind.
I guess the world may never know.
