Tiger Woods' Nike Commercial: Tiger and Late Father Team Up

By PopEater Staff Posted Apr 8th 2010 06:39AM

The unexpected co-stars of a new Nike commercial: Tiger Woods and his deceased dad Earl. In the new Nike spot, a silent Tiger gazes at the camera while the voice of his late father does the talking. Eerily, the recording seems to scold the golfer -- from beyond the grave. "I want to find out what your thinking was. I want to find out what your feelings are. Did you learn anything?" Earl asks, as the camera moves closer to Tiger. Watch the commercial Nike revealed before the Masters here:

The 30-second spot began airing Wednesday on ESPN and the Golf Channel. Nike is among the only companies to continue their relationship with Woods in the wake of his sex scandal. Tag Heuer, Accenture, Gillette, AT&T and Gatorade have cut ties with the golfer.

"We support Tiger and his family. As he returns to competitive golf, the ad addresses his time away from the game using the powerful words of his father," Nike officials said in a statement obtained by the NY Daily News.

Nike officials said the ad will only run until 4PM Wednesday.

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Friday 09 April

By Gina

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It was better than Nike not acknowledging the circus at all.
He is a sick man that still sells products.
What did people expect from an ad.
If you do not like him, do not watch or support him.
If you continue to talk about him.... you might as well support what he has done.
He is a man, yes an amazing golfer, but human. This is an opportunity to help teach your children who to look up to and why.

By Natasha

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I have three jock sons... I have spent a small fortune on Nike products... but not anymore. I respected Nike for dropping him initially, they seemed to have an actual conscience. But this is totally exploiting his situation in the name of making a buck. No more Nike in my house.

By alicia

You are acting totally lame.

By Me

Tiger is human. He will not get the husband or father of the year award but he is still the best golfer. We have all made mistakes. Success doesn't happen without it. I think this would have blown over sooner if he would have not taken a break. The build-up of the lost time created this monster. Sad.. he is still someones son, husband and father. What he does from here is going to make or break him. Sad that so many people throw that stone.

Let it be!!

By Sue

Tiger is the greatest golfer, the one people loved to watch, and hopefully still will. I think the best way to recovery is to get back to the job you love. In order to be successsful in your recovery is to have ALOT of support, so I support Tiger, I would love to see him recover. There are alot of different "addicts" out there of one kind or another and without support of their family and friends they wouldn't make it. There are ALOT of things we don't want others to know about in our lives, too bad everyone had to know about Tiger's personal life. I know he's a role model and everyone looked up to him which will make it even harded for him to recover. This whole thing just might make him a better person. GO TIGER!!!!

Saturday 10 April

By rose

I DONT GET IT ..and either way what does it have to do with GOLF??

By Charlotte Smith

You can always identify the weak minded. They hate who they are told to hate, and they love who they are told to love. Why? They don't know. They have been trained not to think, and they defend belief systems without question. They are easily identified by their personalized hatred of people they don't know, and they feel like those people did something to them personally. But they are the sad ones because they have given their minds over to evil, and they don't even know it.

By Bodisahtva

People who Cheated: The Mick, The Babe, Kobe, Joe D, Clinton, Mike Tyson, Frank Gifford......The list can go on forever.....who cares. It happens, look around you, 50% of the people you know have had a divorce, and most of those where caused by infidelity. Tiger does not affect your life, Nike does not affect your life. I dont know Tiger, so I wont judge him. But I do appreciate his game....he really is the best golfer ever.

By Darryl

One word describes my reaction "UNNECESSARY"

By Jimmy

Its so stupid, I think I'll buy some stupid ugly shoes now :)

By Casey Bookman

Jesus said it best. "Let him that is without sin cast the first stone". Is it that you just haven't gotten caught, no one cares, or you are John Edwards and the media has forgotten that he had an affair, fathered a child, etc. Media: let a dead dog lie. We have had enough of your attempts to destroy this man. After all isn't a Presidential candidate more news worthy than a pro golfer? Or is it that color really does make a difference?

By Bernie

Tiger deserves what he got got and I don't care why people think he needs sympathy - what about his poor wife and her embarressment, I hope he disappears.

By John

I am as sick of seeing this coon as I am of the worst lady coon . The news media ride this into the ground !!

By Eric

Tiger, a great golfer and a terrible speaker ....never mind the excuses. Play golf.

By Johnny Reece

Uh Miss Charlotte, is you one of de tiger's white HO's ??

I guess I am one of the DA haters you rave about for talking about ur maan

By Kelli

Wow...never knew there were so many perfect people in this world who have never made mistakes. The only person who has to forgive him is his wife. Who are we to judge. Get a life.

By Workhorse

The quote by Tigers dad in that ad was not even about him.He was talking about Tigers mom.

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