To Err is Human, Unless You're Tiger

As you've undoubtedly heard by now, Tiger Woods was unfaithful to his wife. This is certainly not the first time a celebrity athlete has been accused of cheating, but it may be the most publicized. Other than Kobe Bryant's alleged rape incident, it is hard to find another case of infidelity involving a billionaire athlete with such a stellar reputation. Woods was, and still is to many, the complete role model. He's never been accused of using performance-enhancing drugs, never acted unprofessionally (sans a few meltdowns on the course) and he's the last person many expected to be cheating on his wife. Except he was.

All the accolades aside, Tiger is a human. People can say that they thought he was above this, but let's face facts. He's a billionaire athlete. He's in prime physical shape. He travels practically every weekend. Did I mention he's a billionaire? Under the circumstances it is easy to see how his "personal failings" could have happened. The mistake happened, however, when he let it get too far. I'm not advocating cheating. I'm simply saying that if he did it once and cut ties he wouldn't have put himself in the situation in the first place. Simply put, he allowed himself to get caught.

Beyond being unfaithful, Woods is also guilty of another sin. Moral indignation. A quote from his "apology":

The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate
and within one's own family. Personal sins should not require press releases and
problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.

Spare us, Tiger. The minute you began profitting from the public from your name and making millions of dollars, you lost the right to privacy. Being a public figure means that people will be curious as to why you crashed into a tree at 2 AM and continue to be when you leave a voicemail asking a mistress to change her phone settings. I agree that the matter should be resolved between him and his wife. But realistically, this is not something that will get better over night. He's got to admit and apologize for his "transgressions" and being the healing process of his image, not blame the media like so many other public figures.