AT&T Drops Tiger Woods Sponsorship
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AT&T has cut ties with Tiger Woods, the Associated Press reports Thursday.
The phone company is the latest to drop its sponsorship deal with the 34-year-old golfer after he became tied with more than 12 alleged mistresses.
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According to the Associated Press, AT&T hasn't used Woods' image extensively in advertising, but its logo appeared on his golf bag. That deal had been billed as a "multi-year" agreement when it was signed earlier this year.
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Although Woods has been host of the AT&T National PGA Tour event since its 2007 inception, the company did say it would continue to sponsor that event, which will take place in July. (Woods has taken an indefinite hiatus from golf.)
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Accenture and Gillette have already ended their endorsements with Woods. Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer said earlier this month that it plans to continue its partnership with Woods but will "downscale" its presence.
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68I think that AMERICA/AMERICANS,need to leave Tiger Woods alone and let him deal with his personal relationship's, with his extra relationship's and activities that are on the side.Tiger Woods and his Wife/Ex-wife i don't know what she is to Tiger currently because the Media and the Public are so much in gossip conversation/s about Tiger Woods cheating, let's face it as long as the Media and the Public continue's to be in Tiger Woods Golf Bags and peak's out everytime he take's out his Golf Club to hit his Golf Ball, Tiger and his Wife/Ex-wife will not get Tigers CHEATING problem's solved.I know that Tiger Woods Wife/Ex-wife reacts some kind of way which we will never know, whenever she hears drama about there relationship on television,and to the MEDIA and the PUBLIC please stop putting bad thoughts into Tiger Woods Wife/Ex-wife BRAIN no more then what's already there,and just some Food for Thought,HAVE YOU EVER KNOWN OF ANY PERSON IN YOUR FAMILY WHO HAS CHEATED And how did you REACT to He/She when you came across He/She after the situation took place?
God bless you too Charly. Wished you knew!!! You sound really miserable, Jesus is the answer and white america didn't put Obama in office, America did. Try and education, may help you formulate your opinions a little better.
Americans can NOT be called racists any more. We elected a black man to the highest office in THE WORLD! What more does "White America" have to do to prove that we are not racist? Royalty? I think not. Sounds more like someone who has lived a little too long getting "Royalty" checks from the government. Get a job. Then try getting a clue. D-bag...
good for att....Tiger made his millions selling himself as a clean cut guy next door.....well, let me put it this way....hes not welcome next to my door....such hypocrite....
Good for you GIRL NEXT DOOR. Are you going to start buying Penthouse magazine? Go to strip clubs?, you know - sleezy stuff Tiger Woods will soon be endorsing to pay his legal fees and support his ex wife the way she's been accustomed? I'm sure Tiger Woods will be happy to have your support. Go ahead and buy a dirty pair of Nikes. Believe me, they need your business, honey. The face of Nike is the face of a lying, cheating, such a jerk is petite lovely wife had to kick his a$$ and take her kids to another continent. I doubt Tiger Woods gives a crap about you, but I'm sure he's happy there are some idiots left who support him.
January 01, 2010 - 3:41pm Corporations who are SMART know WOMEN go to the mall and buy their products - more than men do. Says: One thing I won't buy is product insulting my intelligence by telling me what a great guy Tiger Woods is, when we all KNOW he's a piece of garbage. This playboy thought so little of his family - he had the 14 strippers in his home and whatever STD's they had - he could have given to his wife. No way, no how am I going to make that jerk richer. The money he made was for the clean image. NOT the golf hero. I will NEVER buy a Nike product, ever. Who does the shopping? Us girls. Men hardly ever go to the mall or buy anything. We live at the mall and buy the Christmas presents for our men and the kids. You think I'm buy my kids Nike sneakers? Or, my husband. NO WAY. Men don't care about Nike sneakers anyway. They'll wear anything we buy them. Anything having to do with Tiger Wood IMAGE is not going to be endorsed by me. I'll still watch the jacka$$ golf once in a while. That's not where he makes most of his money anyway. KUDOS TO AT&T - they KNOW women are usually the decision makers and have decided AGAINST anything Tiger Woods. He hurts THEIR image - why would they want his tarnished face on their product? *************************************** Guess what, psycho. Im a female and I shop...ALOT. And I'm going to buy EVERY product he endorses.
Oh Lord, now you're badgering me. To ALL OF YOU ROYALTY BADGERS!! I made it through college, "hmmm", on academic scholarship. I obtained an Engineering Degree @ Mercer University and a law degree from Loyola. I suggest you remain silently baffled @ my comments rather then to attempt to converse, debate or insult my royalness. Sounds like laymen terms is how you relate best. So, I'll break it down to ya. First, lazy I am not, Godly, beautiful and financially successful; I am. Proverbial is the saying;"You reap the seeds you sow!! There's no race card excuse, "anonymous" and all of you other self-righteous, abortion having, lying,cheating, gossip freak, covetous, GODLESS, paganistic, immature, miserable neanderthals(oops sorry Jesus)For the record, I am Dutch. I truly pray for the African Americans in this country; They are the beginning of our civilization and are treated with such disrespect. READ MORONS; READ... Find out who Abraham and Isaac are and an honest description of Jesus and Adam. When you all find out the truth; I pray it's not too late. You have the audacity to mention their ancestors? Really, so where'd you learn that; the strip club? Be an example for your own DYSFUNCTIONAL Families. Stop being MALICIOUS. Tend to your families and watch your youngsters as they love dark meat.(not chicken either):) I would date Tiger over your brothers and you!!!!!
He is a doggone FAKE and if these companies continue to sponsor this idiot then people will not buy their products in protest, so of course his sponsors are dropping him like hotcakes! He is going to end up broke very soon and this is what he very well deserves from not keeping his penis in his pants when away from home. Because he slept with every tramp in the country and LIED to his wife and the world, he has destroyed himself and his family, making him a BOY. What makes a man is not having sex, for boys also have sex. What makes a real man is honesty, dignity, and responsibility. This has nothing to do with race either Royalty so quit playing the race card. Tiger was regarded as the best athlete, as well as richest, in the world with the near-perfect wife and kids. That is why what he did was a real shock to everyone. He took a hard fall because he gave up such a great status to be trash, not because he is black. If it was because he was black, he would never have gained the status he had.
The Truth, you don't know caca about the law do you? It's not attempted manslaughter at all. She didn't try to kill him more than he tried to kill her by sleeping with every sk&nk in the country unprotected. Get over yourself. No more double standards is right, this celebrity should be treated like the coward he is: face the music Tiger - you portrayed yourself one way and you turned out to be another..now that's a (check out the spelling on this Truth its pretty tricky) HYPOCRITE!
Hey all you guys that think Tiger is a coward. He is because he should have charged his poor little wife with attempted manslaughter. Instead he pretended that she did not try to kill him. If he had tried to kill her and she tried to cover it up white America would be ready to lynch him as they always do. How come we are accepting the lies being told about her vicious attack on Tiger. No matter what he did it does not give her the right to try to kill him. His endorsement should be handled as seen fit by his various contracts. His wife has the right to divorce him but not kill him. She should go to jail for that. I want to see pictures of tiger. If his face is altered after this incident then his wife should go to JAIL! JAIL! JAIL! No double standards. If you don't agree you are a hipocrite.
Wow, Royalty you sure got problems. Yeah, all this is because white America is coming down hard on the poor victim black man -- LOL. Pathetic. Listen, do me a favor please just sit with my son for a couple minutes and maybe you can convince him the reason why he hasn't gotten up off his a** to look for a job in six months is because White America is oppressing him...stupid me, I just thought he was lazy. Tiger is never going to play professional golf again because he, like you - has no cajones. He would have been in front of a camera resolving all the questions long ago if he did. But poor little Tiger is busy licking his wounds. Poor oppressed Tiger licking the wounds big mean white America inflicted on him. I wish White America would force me to have affairs with 14 white male strippers and violate any sense of trust my husband had with me. I wish that white America would force me to turn my back on my children and just think of myself!! Where is oppressive White america when this black woman needs it!?!?!?!
TO ROYALTY : I was just curious...did you think that you sounded smart, there in your rambling ? Did you think that by putting God's name into it that it would make it sound like you were making sense? Are you magical ? " Whatever we wish on him, you wish on us " ...and then the warning was brilliant...." be careful "....REALLY I WAS SCARED THERE ! Your a joke. Your whole speach was. He put himself in the position that he is in. It's not for the fact that he cheated on his wife ( which is disgraceful ) but for the fact that he was portraying himself as something that he clearly is not, that has people talking. Get a clue. Your Royal Stupidness.
Ugh, it sucks that Charlotte Church had her boat taken away and had to ask for help in getting it back!
To: 11:08 - VERY well stated and VERY true. I'm so sick of the race card. Royalty, grow up and grow a pair. The race card has been royally over played. Time to find a new excuse for your laziness.
It would be impossible to watch Tiger play golf without thinking about what he did to his family and image. There is an unhealthy level of entitlement in the way things were handled both by the golf community who knew what Tiger was doing and others who profited by his activity. Honor should mean something even in the sports arena.
Thank you for being the predictable and ever annoying slacker pulling the color card when you want to guilt society into looking past your inability to be responsible. You think your race is a free card to do whatever you want with no repercussions as if you are above the rest of society. You were born free and didnt suffer what your ancestors did to have any smidgen of a clue as to what they endured so your whining is laughable at best. Rake in all the freebies and sympathy while the only persons that actually deserve it are long dead. Keep milking it for all its worth rather than getting an education and *earning* (gasp! new word for you Im sure)what you have. Find a new excuse because the color card is tired, old, and grates on everyone's nerves, especially to those blacks who ARE educated and doing quite well for themselves. You're a disgrace and counter-productive to society. For the record, the only thing you got right is that you are lost. He isnt being crucified for cheating so to speak. He is being crucified for selling an image that he was a family man and getting millions in endorsements for it. He chose to put himself out there as such and so many companies invested in him because he was the ultimate package. He was the best at what he does and a good role model, or so we were all duped into believing. To further this image of his, he made several interviews talking about his family being the most important thing to him and even denouncing his father's cheating past as despicable. He sold and made millions on a lie. It was bound to catch up with him. His Pr team shouldve never used his family to increase his likability. The endorsers and the public feel lied to. We all bought into it. We arent talking about 1 mistress here...it was 13-14 and maybe more. The fact that children are involved makes it that much more appalling. The fact that you would make excuses for him (yet predictable of you)is bottom of the barrel. However, judging by your entire post, poor choices are always someone else's fault isnt it?!
To the person at 9:31, it's not a question of forgiving. Tiger didn't murder anyone. His wife shouldn't take him back. She was married. Tiger Woods was never married. A man that has 14 girlfriends does not love his wife. The marriage that "never was" is over. Don't worry about Tiger Woods. He is filthy rich. All his sponsors can dump him and he would still be filthy rich. He will be back playing golf. No one will hate him for being a divorced playboy.
Tiger Woods would be extremely offended if he heard you were accusing him of being black. He's NOT black, according to him. Besides, have you ever seen Tiger Woods with anyone black besides his father, who Tiger claims is only a little black. Tiger is NOT BLACK he wants everyone to know this.
Okay, Tiger has been through public humiliation for over a month now and has suffered a lot throughout this ordeal. Yes, what he has done is disgusting, but he's willing to try his best to change for his family and the public. Leave him alone, so he can save his marriage to Elin. STOP criticizing Tiger and his wife, even if they get back together. We, the public, doesn't know what's going on behind closed doors, so don't judge Tiger or Elin. I'm sick of these people who think they are above them when you know you are not perfect too! Before you judge, look at yourself first, especially the DISGUSTING MEDIA AND THE NASTY BIMBOS OUT THERE!!! Tiger and Elin, come back, you have my FULLEST support along with NIKE. These sponsors will come crawling back to you once you win more tournaments again.
This is just WHITE AMERICA & LOST Colored FOLK. DOING WHAT IT DOES BEST. TAKE FRUSTRATION AND COVETOUS MOMENTS OUT ON A BLACK MAN. SO WHAT IF HE CHEATED? NO, I DON"T CONDONE CHEATING BUT DAMM DOES HE DESERVE TO BE CRUCIFIED? IF I DIDN"T TRUST THAT GOD WAS IN CONTROL, I WOULD BEAT ALL OF YOUR U KNOW WHATS. THE VERY ONE OF YOU THAT JUDGE HIM IS JUST AS JACKED UP AND IGNORANT AS THE CONDUCT OF TIGER's. YOU MAKE ME WANNA GIVE UP ON RACIAL RELATIONS..WHATEVER YOU SAY NEGATIVELY ABOUT MY COMMENT OR TIGER IS AN EXACT REFLECTION OF THE IGNORANCE THAT"S TRANSPIRED SINCE TIGER DECIDED TO GET SOME OUTSIDE NOOKY. HE'S NOT PERFECT AND NEITHER OR THE GODLESS FOLK WHO JUDGE HIM............So Whatever you wish on him, I wish for you....be careful...