Tiger Woods: Too Big to Fail?
This post doesn't exactly count as Wall Street news, per se, but I do think Tiger Woods counts as a toxic asset right now and may qualify for TARP money.
According to Clusterstock, marketers who've been promoting themselves with the superstar's image have pulled all prime-time ads involving El Tigre.
What's more, Gatorade is likely going to discontinue its "Tiger Focus" product line. However, Gatorade is not pulling their sponsorship, unilaterally. And apparently said that their move "had nothing to do with recent events." Wow, you could cut the lies with a butter knife.
Not to mention, Tiger's extramarital Harpy-Alert is now at 11. So, it seems likely that Tiger has slept with more cocktail waitresses and porn stars than the average IBer. I don't mean to be encouraging schadenfreude here, as Tiger will soon be going into his own Great Depression, but I think it begs the question, as a sponsor and investor, what would you do? Would you disassociate from Tiger? Will more bankers be playing golf? Is that even possible?
Also, Wikipedia just informed me that Tiger is apparently a Buddhist. I'm speechless.






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Umm seriously wtf is all the
Umm seriously wtf is all the hype about tiger woods? I've seen him on every fucking newspaper for the past week. Big deal, the guy crashed into a tree and had affairs. Honestly I'd rather hear more about Chris Crocker than Tiger Woods.
I heard that Trojan is
I heard that Trojan is basically tripping over their pants to sign him on.
Chris Crocker...that crazy mofo makes me shudder.
Agreed
I also don't get what the fuss is all about. He had an affair - so what? As long as his golf doesn't suffer then what's the big deal.
He had 10 affairs
He had 10 affairs
I've disliked him ever since
I've disliked him ever since he started making fun of hockey.
What's the difference between
What's the difference between Tiger Woods and Santa Claus?
Santa only has three Ho's
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10 affairs, So....
Why settle down? If you have that much money and gallery girls want to get in your pants, don't settle down. Obviously, when you retire from golf and the girls you're still gonna find one girl who wants to marry you. Just wait. It makes no sense to marry before you think you've had your fill. Plus, whats with everybody(the media) victimizing the wife? Dude just cheated. He didn't kill her or give her a crazy STD(we hope).
Its probably prudent to cut sponsorship if you have a large consumer base. However, I'm sure some spin doctor is gonna come out and try to "reposition" this. New Gatorade focus flavor: Hoberry
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Heel Tiger
Does anyone else think it would be utterly awesome if Tiger embraced his bad guy status? Imagine how epic it would be to have a heel in golf. He could continue to demolish all of his competition and taunt them and laugh along the way.
I think a heel Tiger Woods could be bigger than the good boy Tiger we knew for so many years.
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TheKing, It would be cool but
TheKing, It would be cool but I disagree. Look at Jordan vs. Rodman. Granted Jordan was arguably the best player of all time and changed the game but even still, the clean cut mass market appeal of the good guy outweighs that of the fing dbag. Only a small sub-set of the population roots for the d-bag.
There is something special about guys like Roger Fed and the old Tiger Woods...these are guys who dominate their sport and do it with class in an age full of juice, murder, beating up strippers and making it rain, etc.
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Clearly you're unfamiliar
Only a small sub-set of the population roots for the d-bag.
Clearly you're unfamiliar with the NBA All Star game...
Agreed
Does anyone else think it would be utterly awesome if Tiger embraced his bad guy status?
I had this very conversation with my wife and her friend last night (of course, they disagreed).
I made the argument that Tiger should book time on Oprah or Barbara Walters or some other big show and just come out and say "Fuck All Y'all. I'm the greatest golfer that ever lived, and will be for the next decade at least. Elin, here's your $300 mil. Now hit the bricks. You were a great gal - it'll probably take me most of the day to replace you."
And then just go back to owning the golf course and banging random Hooters girls. Let's face it - he's better than everyone else and deserves to live the dream. His wife should just take the money and shut the fuck up. Why he's negotiating to make her stay is beyond me.
Jordan is a d-bag
these are guys who dominate their sport and do it with class in an age full of juice, murder, beating up strippers and making it rain, etc.
Jordan did all those things, we just didn't know about it.
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Does anyone else think it would be utterly awesome if Tiger embraced his bad guy status?
I had this very conversation with my wife and her friend last night (of course, they disagreed).
I made the argument that Tiger should book time on Oprah or Barbara Walters or some other big show and just come out and say "Fuck All Y'all. I'm the greatest golfer that ever lived, and will be for the next decade at least. Elin, here's your $300 mil. Now hit the bricks. You were a great gal - it'll probably take me most of the day to replace you."
And then just go back to owning the golf course and banging random Hooters girls. Let's face it - he's better than everyone else and deserves to live the dream. His wife should just take the money and shut the fuck up. Why he's negotiating to make her stay is beyond me.
A total embrace of his status. He could be the ultimate bad guy. And ya know what? It'd end up winning him a whole new legion of fans. He could be the Keyser Soze of golf, destroying the competition, being a total badass, sleeping with whoever, doing whatever he wants, and people would end up loving him for it.
For all those that watched the WWF back in the day, it'd be kind of Stone Cold Steve Austin. He wasn't some "oh golly" good guy, he was a badass who did things no traditional hero would do, but the fans loved him for it. Tiger's got more money than God and is the best in the world at what he does...if anyone could do this, he could.
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Also...
For all those that watched the WWF back in the day, it'd be kind of Stone Cold Steve Austin. He wasn't some "oh golly" good guy, he was a badass who did things no traditional hero would do, but the fans loved him for it. Tiger's got more money than God and is the best in the world at what he does...if anyone could do this, he could.
Don't forget when Hulk Hogan went bad and the popularity of the WWF exploded. It was the best thing that could have happened to his career at the time.
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There is something special about guys like Roger Fed and the old Tiger Woods...these are guys who dominate their sport and do it with class in an age full of juice, murder, beating up strippers and making it rain, etc.
Im no longer a Tiger Woods fan
Heh that's pretty funny cause i've read a bunch of stuff on jordan with everyone saying that hes a huge huge dbag, definitely does coke etc.
So whats the difference? both athletes do the same thing, one happens to get spotlighted in the papers for it though so you don't like him anymore? seems like you just love to eat up those entertainment magazines.
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Jeter is the man although
With a name like TIGER and
Hes a falling knife, guy
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This whole Tiger situation is
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Yeah I hear you man, I get