Tiger Woods Apologises For Saying “Spaz”
April 17th 2006 03:15 pm
He used to be looking so damn yummy
Tiger Woods has apologised for comments he made during a television interview after the U.S. Masters at Augusta National Golf Club on Sunday.
The American world number one, who tied for third place three strokes behind winner Phil Mickelson, was criticised for using the term “spaz” to describe his poor putting in the final round.
“Tiger meant nothing derogatory to any person or persons and apologises for any offence caused,” Woods’s agent Mark Steinberg said in a statement issued on the player’s official website.
When he called himself a spaz, he may really have meant it
Cool. I didn’t for once think that “spaz” was a derogatory term. Now I know. Won’t stop me from saying it though. Spaz. Spaz. Spaz. Spaz. Words with the Zzz to them are such a delight to utter.
In several countries, “spaz” is an offensive term for people affected with spastic paralysis, a form of cerebral palsy.
Britain-based disability organization Scope, formerly The Spastics Society, said of Woods’s comments: “Once again, Tiger Woods demonstrates that we are two nations divided by a common language.
The Spastics Society? ROTFLOL.
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