If Kelly Tilghman were a man, would she have been fired instead of suspended compelled to apologize?

Question

I'm dating myself a bit here, and not a golf fan at all, just noticed the story and thought of Jimmy the Greek...who at least had the excuse of being an uneducated bookie who predated the present climate of PC behavior.

Just seems a little unfair to me. I guess educated, attractive females can make little faux pas and it's excusable. Guys are just screwed. Hate it for you.

Answer 1

No.  It was her idea to put that picture on the cover but she had to run it by too many people to be to blame for it being printed.  You would think that her higher ups would have said it wasn't a good idea but didn't.  And she is a friend of Tiger's anyway and he's past it, we should get past it too and quit beating a dead horse.

Answer 2

If it didn't offend Tiger she shouldn't have been fired.  If Al would have just shut the h**l up then she wouldn't have been suspended for three weeks.  If you check the calender of when it happened and when she came back she was suspended one day short of three full weeks.

Answer 3

I don't think that she would have been fired had she been a man- if as a man, he/she owned the mistake as fast as Kelly did.  She said it and immediately regretted the error.  She was not being racist, she made a mistake.  We all have said things and regretted it immediatley.  We are in a era of people with skin that is WAY too thin........

Answer 4

NAw

Answer 5

I don't think so.  I think a man would have been suspended, too.

Jimmy the Greek actually believed what he said.  Kelly Tilghman's remarks were in jest and were not meant to be harmful.  Some people are still too sensitive for Kelly to get off scott free (see "Jim Brown", "Al Sharpton").

Answer 6

She wasn't fired because this wasn't a story until Al Sharpton got involved, and the golf channel didn't have the golf balls to stand up to him.  

But now, because Sharpton got involved, a lot more people know who Kelly Tilghman, and will watch her.

Another crusade backfiring on poor old Al.

Answer 7

Why are we still discussing this?  Its a dead issue.  Let it go.

Andy, get your facts straight.  Kelly had nothing to do with the picture of the noose on the cover of Golfweek.  She works for the Golf Channel, not Golfweek.  The editor of that magazine got fired for letting the thing get published and posted all over the net.  I think what he did was far more severe than Kelly.  She was trying to make a joke that drastically backfired in her face.  This guy actually printed a picture of a friggin noose and put it on the cover of a nationally distributed magazine.  Kelly dosnt deserve to be fired, but that guy sure as h**l did.

Answer 8

Nah, I think the circumstance is a little different, and time has progressed. Jimmy the Greek was in a time when racial feelings were high. This woman didn't mean anything insulting and more than anything Tiger stood up for her. (props to him)

Answer 9

I think the real problem here is that the media won't let it go. She said she was sorry, Tiger said he understood that she didn't mean anything by it.

END OF STORY. MOVE ON.

I'm not directing this comment towards you, but to ESPN, and any other sports news reporters who had nothing to do with the incident, but love to keep stuff stirred up.