Watch Your Bleeping Necks
March 26, 2008 – 5:14 pm | by bryanIf you're new here, and you're into sports and/or the Christian faith, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
As Awful Announcing pointed out today, ESPN’s choice of Dana Jacobson as the person to interview Tiger Woods over his poor word choices over the weekend seemed a bit “pot-kettle-black-ish” to me as well.
As you probably remember, Jacobson got into some trouble back in January when at a celebrity roast she reportedly said “Jesus” and the the F-word, but not necessarily in that order.
If you hadn’t heard about Tiger’s slip-up, he allegedly used some salty language when a cameraman snapped a photo during his back swing at Doral over the weekend. The sound of the shutter caused Woods’ ball to miss the green on the par-3 9th, and Woods eventually bogeyed the hole. The LA Times’ Rick Morrissey wrote today that Tiger said “The next time a photographer shoots a [expletive] picture, I’m going to break his [expletive] neck,”
Does Dana Jacobson have a right to interview Woods? Of course. Her past sins shouldn’t be held against her for the rest of her career. But ESPN had to know they were opening themselves up to this by choosing her to conduct the interview.
As for Woods and his cussing, I’d be lying if I said that I haven’t gotten very angry on the golf course a time or two. And when you consider that Woods was trying to do his job, well, I suppose I’d also get angry if someone was distracting me as I tried to circulate a critical TPS report. Please don’t misunderstand, I’m neither encouraging or excusing Woods for his word choices, but I won’t rake him over the coals for it either.
I can say for the record, though, that I’ve never threatened to break anyone’s neck, so yeah, Tiger should probably relax a little on the ‘threatening physical harm’ front.
(h/t: Awful Announcing)
Tags: Dana Jacobson, Tiger Woods
