(Ed. note: Originally, I had just Tiger Woods as the Hall of Fame inductee. But after realizing that the only reason he was so discussed worldwide the past eight months was mostly due to the whole Thanksgiving car crash/sex scandals/ break from golf/sex rehab story, I just had to revise this post to honor it. The following is that revision.)
You probably knew this was coming from the minute I announced this "Hall of Fame" last night. And you were right, for good reason. Nobody was so talked about, so speculated, so heard about, so read about, so criticized and so joked about in such a little time as the world's number one ranked golfer and this story was from Thanksgiving day on.
Now, to give you a full recap on the events beginning on that fateful Thanksgiving night in Woods's mansion in Orlando, Florida would be pointless since everyone from the old and the young, the rich and the poor, has heard at least something about it. Well, it actually didn't begin on Thanksgiving. It began a few days earlier when the National Enquirer was the first to report of Woods having an affair, with 34 year old NYC nightclub manager Rachel Uchitel. But you get my point. So instead I'm going to just list the reasons as to why Woods was a no brainer inductee:
1. Helped me select Tiger Woods as the blog's 2009 Person of the Year.
2. His Thanksgiving car crash/sex scandals/ break from the game of golf in late November to the middle of September was so big that I specifically changed my "Story of the Week" category on every "End of the Week" into two sections, one that is truly the big story of the week called "The Actual Story of the Week" and one that is not as big as "The Actual Story of the Week" but is so interesting, so awesome so talked about or so weird that it must be acknowledged, title "The Tiger Woods Saga of '09 Memorial Story of the Week."
3. Only story to have a full "End of the Week" dedicated specifically to it. (http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vYmxvZ3MubXlzcGFjZS5jb20vaW5kZXguY2ZtP2Z1c2VhY3Rpb249YmxvZy52aWV3JmZyaWVuZElkPTIxNjY4MDIxNCZibG9nSWQ9NTIxMDk0NDgx)
4. The sex scandals were so famous that it made mistresses Rachel Uchitel and Jocelyn James household names. Speaking of Uchitel, she became so famous that not one, but two reality TV shows ("The Celebrity Apprentice," "Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew") offered her to be on it. You know you're part of a sex scandal so big that it made your mistress a reality TV star!
5. With the exception of Lebron James, never has the public perception of one man changed so dramatically by one story as Woods's was with this one. Before the fiasco, he was one of the biggest role models in sports who was only hated for his impolite cussing, temper tantrums on the course and all the winning (you know, the green eyed monster effect). Now, he's hated by millions for a bigger reason, a much bigger reason.
6. How often can you talk about a story that was so big, it was heavily covered on ESPN, CNN, FOX News, MSNBC and TMZ at the same time? Not many.
7. The sex scandals, despite being first reported in late November, was easily one of the biggest of 2009 in sports and in all of news. Some went as far as to call it the biggest sports story of the decade. Now that's something!
8. The story still hasn't officially ended, with Tiger still struggling since coming back from his break from golf and with the divorce proceedings between Tiger and wife Elin Nordegren still going on. Who knows, for all we know this won't really go behind us for a while.
I have much more to say on this issue. But, like I said, it's pretty pointless to do so since you probably get the idea by now. Just know that out of all of the possible nominees for this year's Hall of Fame class, none was more of a no-brainer than this one. It was the first nominee to come out of my mind and to first to get the stamp of approval. Basically, the story was like a great athlete like Michael Jordan or Jim Brown when they were inducted to their respective sport's Hall of Fame. It was so good that you knew it was a no-brainer going into the Hall of Fame selection process.
One down, four to go. Be sure to come back tomorrow to see who will be joining Mr.Woods in this year's inaugural Hall of Fame class.
Sincerely,
Your pal: mj15
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