New Nike Ad with Earl Woods' Voice

[Freckles]

Boo

We were asked to comment on the AD, not about 2nd chances.

[wombat2u2004]

That's crummy.....the worst ad I have ever seen in my life.

[Catty1]

I wonder if anyone on the planet believes in second chances?

A few million recovered alcoholics and addicts do, because they had one and made good on it.

It can happen. And does happen, every day.

I hope Woods and others like him hang around people that are 'winners' - who have made good and/or can encourage him to stay on the right path.

Being around bashers and naysayers would make taking the right road all that much harder.

[wombat2u2004]

I wonder if anyone on the planet believes in second chances?

A few million recovered alcoholics and addicts do, because they had one and made good on it.

It can happen. And does happen, every day.

I hope Woods and others like him hang around people that are 'winners' - who have made good and/or can encourage him to stay on the right path.

Being around bashers and naysayers would make taking the right road all that much harder.

And if the world made it easier for him to take the right road, how long before he took the wrong road again ???

[gini]

I think the video is creepy. I would love to know their thinking behind it.

But, they have stuck by Tiger where his other sponsors have dropped him.

[Catty1]

wom - I have 14 years in...and I know that I am just one drink away from a drunk.

Addictions are never cured. One can recover - and the condition can be managed - but that takes a LOT of work. Recovery has to be a way of life.

Tiger's in the first few months...at least if he goes out of town, he can find meetings to go to!

[RICHARD]

No one is beyond forgiveness.

It's the way it's achieved. Sometimes you have to go within yourself to make sure you forgive yourself, then you work on your family, co-workers.

Forgiveness/Sobriety/Living is the one-day-at-a-time project.

This guy has enough money to stay at home and work on his life/family/relationship. Instead? He chooses to claim Hunky Dory-ness and
after a few months decides to go and play golf again, the same lifestyle and enviroment that got him into trouble.

It has nothing to do with forgiveness. For him or from us.

IT has to do with character.

It's not Gatorade, Gillette, Nike or condoms....ba dump.

This guy pulled a scam on everyone and forgive us if we fell for the simple joy of watching something to get us away from our boring life.

We do watch sports to escape and for some of us it's a critical part of our being.

You want to yell, scream and cheer. If your team/man/woman loses? You should feel good that they performed well.

So, now TW has put himself into the position of being human- He's the same jackass that left your sister, left her head spinning and became the talk of the town by making everyone look stupid because they thought he was a great guy.

We may not have the right to feel indignant because he cheated on his wife? But, people that truly thought he was a class act as a golfer are the ones that he has to win back.

5 months of press conferences and rehab do not make a clean slate. and the people who want to separate the golf from his marriage are the same people who will look at a spouse or SO and say, They would never cheat on ME!!

LOL,
Everyone has the "Flaming Bag of Tiger Poop" left on their doorstep, one time or another.

It's resisting the urge to stomp it out barefoot that makes us all unique.

[wombat2u2004]

wom - I have 14 years in...and I know that I am just one drink away from a drunk.

Addictions are never cured. One can recover - and the condition can be managed - but that takes a LOT of work. Recovery has to be a way of life.

Tiger's in the first few months...at least if he goes out of town, he can find meetings to go to!

Well, I certainly hope he can hang in there for his family's sake.
I wish him well....I really do.
I'm still not sure about that commercial tho.
As gini said "I would love to know their thinking behind it." I gotta go with that to.