Tiger: 16 Straight NY Post Covers, 3 Short Of 9/11

Irish Lumberjack · 12-20-09, 10:05 AM

i thought he hit 20 on friday?

dwaechte · 12-20-09, 10:17 AM

Yeah I thought he was at 20 already too.

jjgold · 12-20-09, 10:38 AM

ok let me check, I saw it on google

jjgold · 12-20-09, 10:39 AM

Today marks the 20th straight day in a row that Tiger Woods has hit the cover of the New York Post. Want to put that in perspective? The previous holder of the most consecutive Post covers title was the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, which dominated for 19 straight days. I suppose this officially makes Tiger the the Sherman McCoy of the sports world in the eyes of the New York media. I wish I could do a side-by-side comparison just to give you a visual appreciation of the phenomenon, but as I have bemoaned on prior occasions the New York Post archive only goes back to 2007 (ahem, Rupe).
So what to make of this? For one, despite all the chatter about our decreased, Internet-addled attention spans, we apparently have an insatiable appetite for scandal. Also, Tiger Woods is apparently just as good, or better, at selling newspapers and magazines due to bad behavior as he is at selling sports paraphernalia due to good golf behavior. Other than that I’m not sure it’s a sign of much except that we continue to pay too much attention to celebrities, etc. Also, this is the New York Post, I’m fairly certain they could care less about the larger meaning of anything as long as the papers are selling and they haven’t run out of Tiger puns. Meaning, probably, that the world isn’t going to end quite yet.