Let’s just go with this idea:
Tiger Woods shows up next month for the San Diego Open to kick off his 2010 PGA season. He sits down at the microphone of one of the most chaotic and hysterical pre-tournament pressers of all time.
The digital tape is rolling, the flashbulbs are popping and ESPN is sending every frame out live in HD.
It is a world wide moment.
Tiger speaks:
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Thank you for coming today. There has been much written about myself and my family over the past few months. Some of it is true. Much of it is false. Little of it has had anything to do with my career as a professional golfer.
I’m here today to state, once and for all, that what happens in my personal life, for better or for worse, is of no concern to the public or the media.
I have made mistakes. I am not a perfect person. I am working to improve and repair the damage and ease the pain I have caused.
As far as it concerns the general public, I am a professional golfer here this week to compete against some of the best golfers in the world. I am here to play. I am here to win.
Let me make this perfectly clear. I will not now or in the future ever discuss the personal side of my life. My family, my relationships, my personal beliefs are not of anyone’s concern outside of my personal social circle.
I will not answer any questions, ever, regarding my personal life or how it may effect my professional life.
I somewhat regret that I must draw such a definitive line here with you today but I must in order to protect my family from further pain and invasions of their privacy.
With that, I’ll take any golf related questions you may have…
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45 minutes later Tiger leaves the press tent having “no commented” his way through 90% of the questions asked of him.
By his next tournament that number is already down to 50% and by Augusta in April it is just a few questions thrown at him by a more aggressive foreign press.
A win at Bay Hill and a Sunday charge at Augusta to lose by a stroke and it is almost all behind him as far as his fans are concerned.
We always, always, forgive an active winner.
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