Tiger's Q Scores Still Worse Than The Dog Killer, The Infamous Steroid Users And Jim Gray's Infomercial Subject**
/Darren Rovell on no change in Tiger's abysmal Q Rating as Lebron recovers from his disastrously-handled free agency announcement.
Late last summer, 16 percent of people thought of Woods positively, according to the Q Scores, while an astounding 50 percent of people thought of him negatively. Schafer noted that, since he hasn’t won, Tiger’s Q Score has gone virtually unchanged.
Michael Vick, who had the highest negative score of any athlete at 61 percent of the population, now has a 49 percent negative score, which ties Woods for the worst negative score among athletes. Vick became the Philadelphia Eagles starter, showed some flash on the field and didn’t make any major mistakes off of it.
Going out on a limb here: this may be the reason he has not inked any new endorsement deals. I know, call me crazy, but it's just a working theory.
And this just astounds me when you consider that Tiger has not cheated at the sport he plays, unlike the accusations against these two...
Asked by those who read the Q Ratings from the summer, Schafer said the company did polling for Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens. The two turned out to be just as radioactive as you would expect they would be given the controversy surrounding performance-enhancing drugs and their denials, which landed them in court. Forty-four percent of the population thinks of Bonds negatively, while 37 percent think of Clemens in a negative light.
**The Q won't get any better when Tiger is volleyed around chats like this week's Pond Scrum between John Huggan and Steve Elling.
Huggan: Nothing new. But I did laugh at the fixed grin on his face when he appeared on that late night talk show. The host roasted him pretty good and he had to sit there and take it. Not something Tiger is used to, I suspect. As for the interviews themselves, they, as per usual, revealed nothing of any substance. Come to think of it, does he have any substance?
Elling: You're talking about the Jimmy Fallon show on NBC, where Fallon made him squirm for several awkward minutes. It even made me squirm, it was so awful. I guess these are the levels to which Woods will sink to hawk his few remaining wares -- humiliated on TV and forced to sit there and take it. With a smile, no less. He was a good sport, to be sure. And a well-compensated one.
Huggan: More interesting is how the formerly great man will do at Bay Hill. As I recall, there is never a shortage of rough at Arnie's place, so Tiger better be hitting more good shots than we have seen so far this year.
Elling: When Woods' interview with the Golf Channel aired -- access again granted as a result of him hawking the video game -- it was aired in the Tampa press room and nobody asked for the volume to be turned on. Seriously, the only writer comments were about how his hairline is backing up like a balata ball.
Huggan: Let's also hope we've heard all we're going to hear -- at least in the short term -- from Sean Foley, golf's poisoned dwarf. And I never ever comment on hair. I think you know why.
