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Tiger Backs off His Hockey Remarks…Milbury Still Thinks He’s a Meathead-Wuss
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For a second, let’s go back in time, shall we? I always love to do this…Reminiscing! Especially when it comes to taking part in a 15-minute bed full body workout! D’OH…Enough of that, some little tike may be reading this. Let’s take a trip back to June 3…Not that far back. It was a time where the Detroit Red Wings hadn’t hoisted Lord Stanley’s Cup yet. The ratings for the Stanley Cup Finals were at an all-time high, (or at least the highest they’ve been in years) and one would assume it had to do with the two participating teams…After all, who really wants to see a team from Carolina, Tampa Bay, or even Anaheim skating on frozen water!
Yes, on June 3 life for the NHL seemed to be on the up and up…That’s until a little detail that leaked out at the end of a conference call ahead of this year's PGA Championship. By now, all of us have heard TW’s thoughts about the NHL, but for those Caveman still roaming the earth, here’s what he had to say…
JULIUS MASON: Mr. Woods, Julius Mason here. We're joined by about 75 of your closest friends and I think off the top of their head they have one burning question for you, Detroit or Pittsburgh tonight? In the Stanley Cup finals. (Laughter.)
TIGER WOODS: That's pretty good. I don't really care, let's talk about the Dodgers. (Laughter.)
JULIUS MASON: Politically correct as always and that's what we ?
TIGER WOODS: I don't think anybody really watches hockey any more. (Laughter.)'
Okay, so Tiger Woods is unlike Happy Gilmore…Guess we can't be surprised to discover that Woods doesn't watch hockey. That’s the trend in this country ever since ESPN dropped its NHL coverage coming out of the lockout three years ago…So actually by saying that TW’s in the majority.
Majority or not, those comments, for whatever reason, lit a fire in Mike Milbury’s Fruit of the Looms to which he sculled a 3-iron back at him last week with…
"You know what? I'm gonna change the name now. It's gonna be Tiger Wuss. Here's a guy that took about three months to get over a simple arthroscopic surgery. You look at [Pens forward] Ryan Malone. His face exploded with a slap shot last night - he's back out in 10 minutes!
"Keep your yap shut, Tiger, or I'll send a couple of wingers down there - [Pens forward] Gary Roberts - to tidy you up a little bit, meat head."
ZING! So Mike, why don’t you tell me how you really feel, bud! Don’t hold back now! Although Tiger Wuss, a meathead, I can definitely see you aren’t "Smarter Than a Fifth Grader"! Think Jeff Foxworthy would agree! It seems as if Mike Milbury took offense to TW's comment regarding the Stanley Cup Finals…Honestly, I always wanted to see Bob Barker-Happy Gilmore Version 2.0 and well this pretty much fits the bill!
Putting aside the NHL’s lame ass television package to viewers which is along the lines of Pee-Wee Herman freaking television marathon, which can be found somewhere in the mid 500’s on your boob tube, the league has for all intensive purposes gotten more and more coverage since returning. This year alone ESPN has beefed up their coverage, both on the boob tube and online.
But like all of us, we may joke about the league and all it’s recent history and apparently now that’s what Woods was apparently trying to do…Can’t blame him, we’ve all done it! Just one little OOPS…It backfired! Yesterday talking to Jeremy Fowler, the Orlando Sentinel reporter behind the blog Roughing It about the comment and the subsequent fallout…Woods said he was trying to be funny but it backfired. His point was that TV merely can't do hockey justice because it's so great live. "I've gotten a lot of grief over that," Woods said. "I said what I said."
Now is this Tiger’s way of making light of the fact that Mike Milbury slam his he into the boards, or was this actually Tiger’s intent in the first place…To which that famous phrase applies, "My comments were taken out of context"? We’ll never know! Odds are he was, since he’s not that much of a dillweed…And given the fact that a lot of peeps out there feel the same way about golf, but one thing I do know is as mentioned earlier, we all take shots at the NHL…Bashing it to know end, but I’ll say in the defense of the game, and I’m sure I’m not alone when doing so. Attending an NHL game and seeing it live, well no HDTV can do the game justice!
While I’m willing to give Woods the benefit of the doubt, believing that his comments were nothing more than we all say and do in regards to the NHL…NHL purests on the other hand will, well do what Milbury did! Fire back at public figures who rip there sport.
