While i agree with you that playing a sport which most people play while drunk should not be worth a billion dollars i have no problem with him getting paid that amount, as long as he is being paid that amount through the private sector. If people are willing to buy enough of the stuff he endorses to make Tiger worth a billion dollars then i say "more power to him." I dont have a problem with ANYONE, making obscene amounts of money, as long as it doesnt come from people who were never even willing participants in the equation to begin with.
Why stop there? Why pay $100 million over 5 years for a guy who throws a ball thru a hoop or $18 mil a year to a guy who throws a little white ball into a glove...Truly ridiculous logic. Maybe if you can convince the millions of fans of the sport to stop watching it on tv, going to events, purchasing the golf equipment that it's idiotic, then you'll get somewhere. As far as 20 years prior goes, the same argument could be made as to why all of these NBA free agents are signing 5 year $100-$120 million dollar contracts in this economy. Heck, what was Larry Bird, MJ or Magic Johnson making in 1990?
Tiger may have set a new record for paying for sex: http://www.costofsex.com/ Even at 250m, he's probably paying 7 figures per fuck over the lifetime of that marriage. Imagine how many 3somes with bisexual 21 year old twin sisters you could get for that?
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Its a shame. Woods was possibly black folks last hope for a morally uncorruptible role model. They're starting to even lose me as an advocate. I hate rappers.
Woods may win but his body and stroke are going to have to be fixed up for him to be tiger woods again.