Hat tip to Awful Announcing on this video of ESPN’s Dana Jacobsen grilling Woods about his screaming that he’d break someone’s ***F-bomb deleted*** neck the next time a camera clicked on his backswing. Boy for having legendary concentration, he sure sounds like Nancy Kerrigan every time it happens.
Do you think Woods was happy he had to actually address a question that didn’t fawn all over him and offer hagiographic hero worship? Look at the puss on his face. Is that “surly,” “brooding,” or “sulking?” He’s passably obliging when he wins and a grump who loses with little grace or class. When he loses he says he “pissed” and gets a free pass. Name one other great champion who was as petulant – Nicklaus? Hogan? Snead? No, none of them were sad sacks when they came in second. Woods may the golf’s greatest player, but until he starts to carry himself with a little more humility, grace, and altruism, he’ll never be its greatest champion.
Tiger, Jack took a look at his behavior on the course once and didn’t like what he saw, so he committed to self-improvement. Many people say what a great guy you are, and all the great guys I know have no compunction about saying I’m sorry. C’mon, it’ll make you seem more human to the fans.
Now, Brian at A.A. raises an interesting question about the pot calling the kettle black when it comes to Jacobsen being the one to grill Woods about swearing after her anti-catholic rant at the Mike and Mike roast. Brian, here are my thoughts.
1. Mike and Mike suck. They are no better than any other morning radio hosts and ten times WORSE than the King of Sports radio, Steve Czaban. Giving them a roast is like enshrining me in the baseball hall of fame for my Trinity College Frat and Beer League career. The entire event was a grisly shuck of a self-aggrandizing ESPN back-slapping circle jerk. It never would have made the radar if not for Jacobsen. Every one knows that event because of her scandal, not ESPN. So who cares?
2. Dana was never in trouble before and hasn’t been in trouble since. Let’s give her one strike and see if she learns from her mistake.
3. The pressure of being an up-and-comer at the four-letter in the woods has got to be staggering. For openers, you must lick the boots of the narcissistic scoundrels that are ESPN’s cornerstone – Berman and Scott. I’ll bet you anything that ESPN folks were egging her on and trying to get her to loosen up. They planted ice, and then when they harvested wind, Dana took the fall. They encourage drunken loutish behavior in fans because that appears to be what they foster in house. Then they all cry “shame” when it goes too far.
4. She has a job to do. She had to interview Woods and for once someone had the moxie to ask a real question, one that’s been on plenty of fans’ lips. Why does he have to swear so often and so vehemently? Would you rather go back to the days of hearing all that 60 minutes garbage about his foundation? Dana knows full well that the fans know that Tiger is not “St. Eldrick” and had the courage to “be real” for a minute. I commend that type of journalism.
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