Chuck Klosterman’s Plan To Save Tiger Woods
Whenever Chuck Klosterman is a guest on Bill Simmons’ BS Report Podcast, it’s a must-listen. And though the latest version slumped a bit when they started talking about the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, the opening topic featuring a range of thoughts on the Tiger Woods saga was a fantastic listen.
Particularly Klosterman’s idea for Woods to get back in the media’s and public’s good graces. Take it away, Chuck:
The big thing that he needs to do is … he’s never, ever talked about himself in any way. He’s never given this interview that elucidates what he’s like as a person. So now he needs to go the complete opposite way. He needs to become like (Charles) Barkley now. He should admit that he’s had this sort of secret life, that people around him convinced him he should not be himself, and now he’s really going to be himself, and just become a totally outspoken person about race, this totally outspoken person about wealth, about Nike; he should become really political. Then people, in the long-term, would look back at this event as sort of when he actually turned the corner and became who he really was.
If he tries to continue just like: “I’m going to do nothing. I’m going to say nothing. I’m just going to take three months off to fix my marriage” … Which, he’s probably going to get divorced now regardless. Kinda comes back and plays golf … Every time he fails on the golf course, it’ll always come back to this one event. But if he moves forward and becomes this hyper-aggressive outspoken character, then he becomes a more interesting person, and, most importantly, the media would decide they love him again.
If they started seeing him as somebody that started creating controversy with everything he said, suddenly this would become the domino to a much more interesting person.
This is a high-level idea, and one that would have a good shot at working. When Barkley is drunk and pronounces he’s driving around the corner to get a sweet beej, we barely bat an eye. We actually enjoy it. With Woods’ indiscretions, we’re blinking daily. We’re shocked. Feel robbed. Feel like he’s a Big Lie.
But Klosterman’s idea here only works on a hypothetical level. It’s probably not based in much reality. By all accounts, Tiger is sailing away from his troubles on his yacht, aptly named Privacy, and is likely far, far away from pulling this switch-a-roo on us.
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Tiger Woods has been dropped by Gatorade, Tag Heuer and now At & T. Next stop Nike? Sports bloggers on sports index www.dozensports.com are still supporting Tiger, but this is a bad start to 2010.
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