Thursday, June 05, 2008

Tiger Woods is no hockey fan

Details of an interview with Tiger Woods prior to the PGA leaked out recently and he didn't have very nice things to say about hockey.

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.)


An interesting comment since TV ratings for golf have been slipping and few people bother watching if the Tiger isn't entered and battling with the leaders. The game that night was the triple overtime game and produced some of the best TV ratings in the US in years.

Mike Millbury took some shots of his own on Tuesday on TSN:

"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 - Gary Roberts - to tidy you up a little bit, meat head."