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Luv2play Grand Master

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I totally DISagree with the posters who are saying that because he was a "role model" and an example of a squeaky clean family man, we bought the products he endorsed.

 

Bullshit!!!

 

I buy Gillette razor blades because I think they have a superior product. Not because a squeaky clean family man shills for them.

 

I would buy a Buick SUV IF I needed a monster vehicle, liked the styling and had confidence in GMC. Not because a squeaky clean family man shills for them.

 

I would buy Nike shoes IF I liked the design and found them comfortable. Not because a squeaky clean family man shills for them.

 

 

Well, I totally disagree with you too!

 

I think I understand something of the advertising world, which apparantly, many do not. Advertising is meant to heighten the public's awareness of a product or service by people who may purchase such an item. This need is particularly acute when the thing being advertised is new or when it is a commodity that needs to be differentiated from its peers.

 

This where a personality like Tiger Woods comes in; he can pitch these endorsements and people will respond by buying them if they buy into Tiger's personal appeal. I have noticed over the years that products which sell themselves don't use public figures to promote the product.

 

Take Mercedes Benz, a fine car that sells well in good times and bad. I have never seen an ad for Mercedes that features anything but the car itself. GM, on the other hand, with its struggling brands like Buick, needs all the help it can get from Tiger (until now that is).

 

Saying Gillette offers a superior product is bulls**t. Schick or any other razor blade will do the job just as well. It is a commodity, costing a fraction of its retail price, which is bloated by the advertising costs that go into selling it. Soap detergent is another classic example that requires personalities to move the stuff.

 

Most people don't realize they are being manipulated by the advertisers. This is what Madison Avenue strives for and largely, succeeds in doing. This is what makes for the (great?) consumer society that is North America today.

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Lookin-

 

Becareful or BoN will get you. :)

 

L2P-

 

The US industrial might had nothing to do with our sucess, Madison Ave. did it all. :)

 

I am just kidding but Madison Ave. certainly played a major role, as you describe.

 

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Well, I totally disagree with you too!

 

Then I guess we have to disagree to disagree. But I know for a fact that I am not influenced by a famous face shilling for an advertiser. The only exception would be if the packaging displayed a near naked hunk - then I would probably buy them by the case load, but that's a whole other matter.

 

And if I think Gillette is a superior product, that's my opinion and I'm entitled to it :-)

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Disclosure: There's only one product I've ever bought because of the face on the package, and would do so again in a heartbeat. I just know he's not the cheatin' kind. :rolleyes:

 

http://www.jimgoad.net/images/brawnyguy.jpg

 

...doesn't hold a candle to my MadAve idol:

 

http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images/2007-09/mr-clean.jpg

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People Magazine is reporting that his wife has filed for divorce and that there was a moving van at the house today removing furniture. I guess the number of "disclosures" finally got to her.

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"What are you made of?"

 

Bye bye TAG Heurer!

(I am sure his agent is having a shit-fit! 10% of a $1billion is not chump change)

 

http://www.theimproper.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/tag-heuer-tiger-woods.jpg

 

Bye bye Arnold Palmer!

 

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/media/photo/2009-12/51153973.jpg

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AT&T Cuts Tiger, too.

 

In a one sentence press statement, AT&T joined the club and let go of Tiger as their brand ambassador, “We are ending our sponsorship agreement with Tiger Woods and wish him well in the future,” AT&T said on December 31st.

 

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2009-12/51380199.jpg

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oh

 

so nice! I still love Tiger Woods. Everybody makes mistakes and if one has a lot of money like Tiger Woods then it is easy for one to fall. People just don't leave them alone. :)

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/34689245#34689245

 

the female reporter claims the shot is "provocative"....I don't think so, but she seems breathless as she reports this "breaking news"

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so nice! I still love Tiger Woods. Everybody makes mistakes and if one has a lot of money like Tiger Woods then it is easy for them to fall. People just don't leave them alone. :)

 

At least 9 different women and one ongoing affair. This is a pattern of behavior and not an innocent mistake. Whether it deserves this type of retribution from his sponsers is another discussion but he brought this on himself because he couldnt keep his club in his bag.

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Vanity Fair: Tiger's $60,000 Sex Escort Dates...

 

Article from the Sydney Morning News, January 5:

 

Tiger Woods strips for Vanity Fair photo shoot

-by Zoe Smith

 

Vanity Fair has not confirmed when the photograph shoot - taken by famed celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz - took place, though it does say the "raw, never before seen" photos were taken before the golfer's downfall.

 

In the accompanying story "Tiger in the Rough" - which has been published on the magazine's website - writer Buzz Bissinger charts golf's first billionaire's fall from grace after revelations of his infidelities.

 

He refers to Woods as a "sex addict" with a "harem" and a predilection for crude sexual jokes.

 

Bissinger also lists the allegations made by Woods' alleged mistresses, which he refers to as "sex, tons of it, in allegedly all different varieties".

 

“Threesomes in which he greatly enjoyed girl-on-girl, and mild S&M (featuring hair-pulling and spanking); $60,000 pay-for-sex escort dates; a quickie against the side of a car in a church parking lot; a preference for porn stars and nightclub waitresses, virtually all of them with lips almost as thick as their very full breasts; drug-bolstered encounters designed to make him even more of a conquistador (Ambien, of all things); immature sex-text

messages (“Send me something naughty ... Go to the bathroom and take (a picture),” “I will wear you out ... When was the last time you got (laid)?”; soulful confessions that he got married only for image and was bored with his wife; regular payments of between $5,000 and $10,000 each month to keep his harem quiet.”

 

Vanity Fair also details an extraordinarily candid interview the then 21-year-old Woods gave to GQ writer Charles Pierce in 1997.

 

In the interview, Woods reportedly quipped: “What I can't figure out is why so many good-looking women hang around baseball and basketball. Is it because, you know, people always say that, like, black guys have big -----?”

 

According to Vanity Fair, during a photo shoot with four women assisting Woods “rubbed the tips of his shoes together and then asked the women, 'What's this?' They were stumped. 'It's a black guy taking off his condom.'

 

And he also made crude jokes about lesbians.

 

Bissinger writes: "For somebody who at the age of two had appeared on The Mike Douglas Show (where, with a perfect swing, he miraculously hit a stunning shot into the centre of a net), he seemed remarkably naive and remarkably stupid about the ways of the media."

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Charlie I have to agree with you regarding this role model bull shit. On a talk show a number of years ago Charles Barkley (sp) stated that he was paid a lot of money to play basketball but no a cent to be anybodies role mode. He went on to say that if some people insisted in making him their role model and were dissapointed with his behavior that was their problem not his

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Don't know if this has come up in this long thread, but it is new on Huffington Post:

 

Loredana Jolie, one of Tiger Woods' alleged mistresses, is preparing a book that promises to level a number of significant claims about the world-famous golfer. Jolie will say that she saw Woods have sex with men, according to RadarOnline.com. She says she will describe Tiger's "healthy appetite for arranged sex, threesomes, girls next door [and] girl-girl."

Jolie's rep, Teisha Dynell, tells the New York Post that the blonde will spill details about Woods' appetite "for threesomes and girl-on-girl sex parties."

Jolie was outed as one of Tiger's alleged lovers in December. The playboy model was allegedly "one of his favorites." (Click HERE for photos.)

While nobody else has yet accused Tiger of having sexual relationships with other men, he allegedly thought about another of his mistresses, Rachel Uchitel (PHOTOS), having sex with two men at once. He reportedly emailed Uchitel expressing his fantasy of her having a threesome (he used more colorful language) with Derek Jeter and Bones star David Boreanaz.

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Don't know if this has come up in this long thread, but it is new on Huffington Post:

 

Loredana Jolie, one of Tiger Woods' alleged mistresses, is preparing a book that promises to level a number of significant claims about the world-famous golfer. Jolie will say that she saw Woods have sex with men, according to RadarOnline.com. She says she will describe Tiger's "healthy appetite for arranged sex, threesomes, girls next door [and] girl-girl."

Jolie's rep, Teisha Dynell, tells the New York Post that the blonde will spill details about Woods' appetite "for threesomes and girl-on-girl sex parties."

Jolie was outed as one of Tiger's alleged lovers in December. The playboy model was allegedly "one of his favorites." (Click HERE for photos.)

While nobody else has yet accused Tiger of having sexual relationships with other men, he allegedly thought about another of his mistresses, Rachel Uchitel (PHOTOS), having sex with two men at once. He reportedly emailed Uchitel expressing his fantasy of her having a threesome (he used more colorful language) with Derek Jeter and Bones star David Boreanaz.

 

 

Hmm, this is making me rethink my reaction to marketing strategies. If it is true that Tiger fantasizes and fucks as alleged, maybe I will buy a Chevy or whatever else he is shilling!

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Guess Tiger is still in the woods...

 

London - Tiger Woods's coach Butch Harmon believes the world number one must risk the humiliation and embarrassment of a full and frank news conference over his infidelities before he can get on with his life.

 

Woods, who is taking an indefinite break from golf, has been in hiding since admitting last month he had cheated on his wife.

 

"The golfing public would like to see Tiger Woods do a press conference," Harmon told the UK's Observer newspaper on Sunday. "To stand there in front of everybody, take his medicine, be humble, be embarrassed, be humiliated and answer the questions.

 

"But where the hell is he? We could find Osama bin Laden easier than we can find Tiger Woods. How long can you spend on a yacht in the middle of the ocean."

 

 

'We could find Osama bin Laden easier than we can find Tiger Woods'

Harmon, who now coaches world number two Phil Mickelson and does occasional commentary work for the UK television channel Sky Sports, said the 14-times major champion would have to put up with verbal asides from the crowds when he returns to golf.

 

"The difficult part, in my opinion, is going to be the heckling from the galleries," he said. "He is going to get it.

 

"If he plays in the Ryder Cup (in Wales in October) which I happen to think he will, that is going to be very interesting."

 

Harmon, who believes Woods is likely to return for one of the four PGA Tour events in Florida in March, said the 34-year-old American was strong enough to turn the other cheek to the crowds.

 

"He is the strongest person mentally that's ever played our game," said Harmon. "If there is anyone who can block out this extra stuff that is going on around him, he is probably the guy.

 

'He is the strongest person mentally that's ever played our game'

"If he wants to rekindle the image of who he is, this would be the best way to do it, to do the press conference because then he looks human.

 

"He is going to look ridiculous really, with the questions that are going to be asked. But the average person would appreciate that side of him because they've never seen that," added Harmon. - Reuters

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