Multiple sports figures have weighed in on the Tiger Woods Affair, or rather affairs. Some have been supportive and some, like matchmaker Jesper Parnevik, who introduced then Elin Nordegren to Tiger Woods, have been very critical. On the other hand, Clinton Portis, speaking on ESPN last night, was very supportive.
In fact, Clinton Portis was not only supportive of Tiger Woods. He claimed Tiger Woods was being treated "unfair" (sic).
The discussion took place on ESPN 980's John Thompson Show. After some talk about concussions, which may in fact have some bearing on Portis' answers about Tiger, the topic switched over. At that time, Portis had some interesting comments.
Clinton Portis is a Washington Redskins running back, by the way. He has been out of action since a concussion suffered about a month ago.
To begin with, as noted above, Portis thinks that Tiger Woods is being treated "unfair." After all, as Portis asserted, anyone on that position have the same thing going on. They all have 14 or more women and counting coming out of the woodwork (no pun intended), confirming or at least claiming affairs with Tiger Woods, some of which ran for years.
It is true that Tiger Woods is not perfect, as Portis said. Of course, this is more than just being imperfect, and it is not, as Portis asserted, that Tiger is under a microscope. The sheer number of affairs could be seen a mile away without a telescope.
Below is a partial transcript of more of the conversation between Clinton Portis and John Thompson. It was, of course, done in the raw manner, as ESPN hasn't released an official transcript:
"Now all of the sudden, you go from loving this man who you admired for all these years, and you find out he had a side woman and all of the sudden you hate him? You know, he's still the same man that you grew to love. I mean, he kept it on wraps. For any man to be able to keep that on wrap for that long, to keep his business. I'm sure this wasn't the first time his wife found out he was talking to somebody else, but it was always their business, it wasn't in the public eye, it wasn't pressure for her to leave him, there wasn't pressure to ruin their home. I'm sure they got into it before. I doubt that this is the first time she picked up his phone and seen another woman had called him.
"But I say don't get married, if it's not out of your system. I'm not married. You know, I would love to be able to say, I'm a perfect guy, yeah, baby, yeah. I'm not. You know, I may have temptations. If I find the temptation worth fulfilling, I'm gonna fulfill my temptation. If that ends up getting me in trouble in time, you know, I'll deal with it then. But right now I'm not married, and I'm 28 years old, and I'm gonna enjoy my life.
"So I think for Tiger and this situation, I think it turned out bad. You know, everybody's jumping off his bandwagon and judging him all of the sudden--oh, he's such a bad guy. But the same guys saying he's such a bad guy, the other golfers, I'm sure they're doing the same thing. The people that are pointing fingers, I'm sure they're doing the same thing, they just haven't got caught, or it hasn't been exposed. But I'd say for Tiger, you patch up your family, enjoy what you're doing. If your wife gonna accept it, your kids gonna still love you, go about your life."
"Hey Clinton, I said if he could keep that many women a secret, he needed to be...." John Thompson began.
"He needed to be congratulated. I said the same thing. If he could keep that a secret and ain't nobody came out and told, hey, congratulate him. You know, most of the time there's one or two, and you can't keep that a secret. So if he can balance 14 and keep it a secret, congrats. You know, at least he knows what he wants. He don't discriminate, he's not against people, he don't care what your job, what your background is. He knew what he was after."
Congratulations or not, it is not as though the Tiger Woods affair(s) are about one or even two women, as Portis seems to intimate. It seems the number may be so high as to rival Wilt Chamberlain.
According to Chamberlain’s 1992 autobiography "A View from Above," Chamberlain "scored" more than 20,000 times in his "career," at least until publication date. Those weren't necessarily affairs, however.
Written by Michael Santo
HULIQ.com
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