I’m so sorry

So Tiger Woods just made a very long (and seemingly sincere) apology to his family, friends, the media, his fans, unborn children and pets.

But here’s the thing: he doesn’t owe us an apology. He f*^%#d a lot of women whilst married. He is a sports guy. He represents sneaker and car and whatever else companies – who only care if people want to buy their crap cause he happens to be standing near it.

I’m sure his PR people pressured him to do a public mea culpa in order to help salvage his reputation. But honestly, there’s no way we’re really going to know if he’s changed. And it’s none of our business.

I know absolutely nothing about golf, but I hear that he is incredibly talented. Good for him. And he’s attractive (but not so much my type, but whatever), so companies want him to endorse their products. He can screw whomever he wants and he and his wife have have to decide how they want to deal with it. He didn’t rob a bank, molest a child or do anything to harm anyone other than himself, his wife and potentially the women he was with (as it appears that he was not totally on the up and up with all of them and they might have thought that they were his one and only. Mistress.) He has to deal with the damage that he has caused in his own and other’s lives.

But we love to see the rich and powerful suffer don’t we? Having to make a public confession is incredibly humiliating. Yes, of course if he truly is in some type of twelve step addiction program (which from the terminology and approach he used sure seems to be the case), it is important to take responsibility for your choices and actions. But it didn’t have have to be in a friggin’ press conference – unless you have PR people hounding you.

This man never needs to work again if he doesn’t want to. He could just work on himself and his life and go buy an island and quietly live out the rest of his life. The pressure of the public makes him have to humble himself in front of us. I think it’s sick and kinda sad.