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dkasper on Nov 17, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Tiger Woods Effect: Paralysis by Analysis

It wouldn't be interesting if Woods won all the time. In fact I might argue that underdog/Cinderella stories do as much for the sport as superstars.

rjett on Nov 17, 2009 [–]

Those two sentences aren't mutually exclusive. In 2006-2007 when Tiger was on a 7 tournament win streak, golf ratings were up because a lot of people wanted to see Tiger extend his win streak. Complementary to that, a lot of people also tuned in to root for whoever was in contention to upset that streak.

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