For a good two or three months Tiger Woods and his extra curricular activities dominated the air waves. Even CNN couldn't get enough of Tiger.
It's crazy how fast things can change. Now it's Ben Roethlisberger that is being discussed every time you turn on a sports channel.
Roethlisberger brought this all on himself by doing what usually leads to trouble for every professional athlete. He was hanging around a bar somewhere in Georgia, having drinks, and flirting with girls he has no business flirting with.
I hate to use a cliche but it works so well for this situation. You play with fire and you're going to get burnt.
This whole situation with Roethlisberger has made us virtually forget all about Tiger Woods and his affairs which are far from over.
It has to feel a lot better for Tiger knowing that he's not the focal point of every sportscast right now.
Nothing really surprises me anymore when it comes to athletes getting into these kinds of messes.
For some reason it is so difficult for these professional athletes, and celebrities in general, to stay out of trouble.
Roethlisberger may be completely innocent of the charges that were brough against him, but he still should have never been in that situation. He knows the NFL's conduct policy and he obvioulsy failed to follow it.
In the end Tiger Woods will bounce back way faster than Roethlisberger will. Roethlisberger has the weight of an entire organization bearing down on him to make things right again.
Tiger is going through much of the same thing, but at least he plays for himself on the golf course and doesn't have teammates to answer to. We also already know that Tiger is still one of the best golfers in the world despite everything that happened. He proved that by finishing fourth at the Masters.
On the other hand Roethilisberger will continue to be grilled by the media all the way up until the start of next season, and somewhere in a quiet room Tiger Woods has a modest grin because of it.
No comments:
Post a Comment