SHORT COMMUNICATION 129
Some Famous Fallen Idols
By
Roger Behra
An idol can be some or something that is loved or admired very much. America there was many professional athletes who become idols. This communication will be about some famous American sports idols that are not at all worthy of being idolized. And the fallen idol is list keeps growing. It seems the sports media and sports fan do not get it. They put certain athletes on a pedestal only to see them topple off of it in disgrace. Everyone needs to wake up, especially the media and the sports fan.
Some very famous sports idols have toppled from their pedestals during the past several years, and some have very recently. We have Michel Jordan and his gambling addiction and infidelity; O. J. Simpson and his murders and forced robbery in the hotel; Alex Rodriguez and his cheating in baseball, his carousing and infidelity; Kobe Brayant and sexual escapade in Colorado; and the up to the minute situation with Tiger Woods, which seems to be the worst of all how have recently fallen off their pedestals.
The unbelievable and awful information piling up in the media about Tiger Woods is totally unexpected because he gave the impression that he was so squeaky clean. When everything is said and done, Woods is going to be the biggest sports idol to fall off his pedestal and have so much to lose in the areas of reputation and money lost. His nearly billion dollar financial status, his marriage, his golf career, and his many admirers and some friends will fall by the wayside. He had so much to lose, and he lost so much.
The big questions are this: What in the world was he thinking? Did he think that none of his escapades would ever be found out? During the 7 years he was involved in his indiscretions, nothing is now being kept a secret. Sooner or later everything is found out. And that is what is happening to Tiger Woods. His addiction to sex and his hidden, shameful behavior over a 7 year period finally became known. His addiction to golf put him on a pedestal. His addiction to sex in so many ways and in so many places knocked him of his pedestal, and the thud of him becoming part of reality was monumental and deafening. Now what happens to his marriage and his golf career is anyone´s guess. At the moment it appears you are going to be a famous fallen idol at home and in the golf world.
R.B.
11-14-09