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And your favorite football, basketball, baseball player lived a perfect life? I don’t care about his personal life, just his athletic ability. If we could get rid of all athletes that live less then Christian lives ... sports would cease to exist.

Unfortunately the cult of celebrity which is one of the really bad inventions of the 20th century has endowed these stick and ball men or pigskin throwers or whatever with a significance that goes beyond the sensible level of, say watching pool hustlers knock the numbered balls around. Through a propaganda machine Dr G would envy such these people are held up as iconic figures to the nation. I don't like it, I hate all of this organized phony lying ballyho that the ad men and the booster boys have polluted our society with. But it is a plague , like television, that can't be made to go away. So these entertainers, and that is what they are, should at least be held to a public standard commensurate with their grossly inflated images. When their feet of clay are revealed, especially when the revelation is as florid as it was for Mr. Wood the penalty should be being hurled from the tinsel Olympus and sent down to the Hades of the everyday banality. I hate celebrities but they should be made to toe the line in public and if not lose their overblown status.

There is a lot of petty Tiger hate on FR. Following his martial infidelity and subsequent troubles, leading to the attrition of hs game (and his fall in golf rankings) there were a good number of surprisingly happy FReepers. I am personally not a fan of Tiger, but I know he is one of golf’s greatest exponents. Moreover, his failings as a husband have nothing to do with my appreciation of golf and his accomplishments in the sport. I also have to admit being very happy with his new wind in the game, and rise to the top AGAIN.