Saving Tiger
Rick Reilly of ESPN The Magazine has formulated a seven-point plan to help Tiger Woods salvage a reputation shredded by women alleging they had affairs with the pro golfer — and his admission of unspecific “trangressions.”
“His once-perfect name has been dragged through more mud than a Nantucket clam digger’s boots. A once-spotless life is now an episode of ‘Cops,’” Reilly notes.
The first thing Woods must do in his image-rebuilding campaign is appear on Oprah Winfrey’s TV show and tell her legions of women viewers how “ashamed” he is, Reilly says. “Then he has to go full Tebow (saying): ‘From this day forward, you will never see somebody work harder, 24 hours a day, to win back your trust.’”
And he has to do this immediately. Reilly adds. “It has to be next week and no later, because every day the British tabloids have him sleeping with everybody but the Page 3 girl.”
Lastly, Reilly says Woods “ has to return to the Tour and take the ridicule he has coming. He’ll feel as though he’s being paraded down Main Street, naked, in a glass box. Women will be wearing TIGER, YOU FORGOT ME T-shirts. Guys will be holding ELIN OVERCLUBBED signs. Babes will be hollering, ‘Hey, Tiger! I took my name off my voice mail like you said!’”
See Reilly’s entire piece, “An Image-rehab plan for Tiger Woods,” online at http://sports.espn.go.com.
PARTING SHOT
“Tiger Woods is the first person in history to run his car into a hydrant and set himself on fire.”
— Rick Reilly
Of ESPN The Magazine, in a recent online column about how the PGA golfer can resurrect his image.
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