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Tiger Woods Nike Commercial

I know what you’re thinking, “maaan, I’ve already seen this video twenty times today!”

Well, I’m a little late in posting it, not one of the fortunate ones who has access to youtube in the office….

Watching the video caused a myriad of thoughts to form in my head, from “man, this is a creepy commercial” to “I wonder if Tiger Woods had much choice in whether or not he was going to do this video.”

I like Nike’s approach to the Tiger Woods saga, confronting the controversy head on while at the same time, leaving the commercial open to interpretation. Either way you look at it, the commercial certainly did what it was intended to do, created a whole slew of publicity. Also, the timing couldn’t be better.. smack dab in the middle of the 2010 Masters.

My interpretation of the commercial is Nike is telling the world, we understand that Tiger Woods screwed up, he’s human and we all do it, but we still support him and hope he’s taken this experience to heart, understands the impact his actions have not only on himself, but also on his family, sponsors, fellow professional golfers and to the sport itself.  Our hope is that he learns from his mistakes and avoids them in the future.

I am REALLY interested in hearing what you have to say on the Tiger Woods Nike Commercial, did you like it, hate it, gave you the hibi-jibi’s, etc…

Tiger Woods 2010 Masters Press Conference

Over at Good Walk Spoiled, fellow blogger Jeff mentioned that Vanity Fair is running a feature on Tiger Woods’s many mistresses detailing various personal accounts with golf’s #1 man and photo spreads of the ladies.

You can read his take on it here – Vanity Fair’s attempt to screw Tiger during Masters week.

There’s a teaser article about Tiger’s Mistresses up on Vanity Fair’s website. The full article will be included in the April 7th print release of the rag magazine, which coincidentally is one day before Tiger’s opening round at the 2010 Masters.

As if there wasn’t enough pressure, now he’s going to be bombarded with additional criticism regarding his infidelity with the release happening so close to his return to golf.

A commenter on Jeff’s post mentioned that..

“If stores haven’t already done so, they need to move Vanity Fair from the “legitimate magazine” section to the tabloid section, between the National Enquirer and the Star. Trashy.”

I completely agree, hence, this posts title..

Vanity Fair, from my limited exposure, is supposed to be a credible magazine discussing culture, society and politics.

HOW does this article fit into any of those categories?

From my perspective, it doesn’t.. Or at least not without a quite a stretch..

I was beginning to think we were starting to move on, the other day I was in the grocery store at the checkout counter and scanning all the tabloids, not a single mention of Tiger Woods and his mistresses, they had all moved on to Sandra Bullock and Jessie James..

Now, I fear, Vanity Enquirer might have rekindled this nauseating flame and we’re going to be inundated with more personal dirty accounts of Tiger Woods off the course…which could potentially affect his performance ON the course, which is really all we golf fans care about..

Do you think the media frenzy that’s bound to surface due to this article will negatively affect Tiger’s performance at the Masters?

Tiger Woods returning to golf at the 2010 Masters.

The 2010 Masters just got a whole lot more interesting! Although, really if you stop and think about it, it’s not all THAT surprising, I think in the back of our minds, we all knew he’d be back for this event. Nothing can win back the hearts of the fans like donning the green jacket.

Would you agree?