Happy Anniversary!!!

I'd be remiss if I didn't take a time out this Thanksgiving to commemorate one of the my favorite days in sports history. November 27, 2009.

In case you've been living in a cave on Mars with your eyes shut and your fingers in your ears, here's a complete timeline of everything that's happened since. From my perspective, a wonderful thing occurred in the early hours of that day, and that was the edifice of Tiger Woods seemingly impenetrable marketing appeal was decimated the moment Woods got into that Escalade wearing nothing but his shorts and socks.

From that moment forward, we the people of the reasonable, rational, skeptical, and cynical sports world were shown the real Tiger Woods. The duplicitous, fraudulent, petulant, blame everyone except himself Tiger Woods finally emerging for us all to digest.

If there's a downside to all of this for me, it's simply this: I don't believe Woods has been nearly as criticized as he should be. There are still plenty of people in the media i.e. Rick Reilly, that make no attempt to disguise the fact that they are rooting for him. Nevermind that showing prevailing Woods Homerism is patently against the principles of being an objective journalist, but then again that's why Reilly works for ESPN right?

People really need Woods to be the dominant golfer he was before November 27, 2009, and it's downright PATHETIC! I can find no other word to describe this childlike need for a golf hero. People still refuse to accept that Eldrick is not only a jerk and a phony of a human being, but more importantly they won't accept any thoughts or ideas that the reason he no longer dominates golf tournaments anymore has nothing to do with the amount of Road Pussy obtained versus Monitored Steroid Use by Doctor Anthony Galea.

In the end though, none of it matters. All of this talk of how Woods can repair his image is just empty conversation. The only way Woods image gets repaired is if he starts reeling off tournament wins again.

Since we all know the way he won tournaments before isn't going to be possible until he gets another PED Hookup, we won't be seeing any image repair anytime soon, and the world is a better place for it.