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In the early 1980s I was hosting a program on ABC called “That’s Incredible.” On one of our shows we had a 3 year old Tiger Woods and his father. For that show, Tiger was hitting balls into a net in our studio, and ever since that show, I’ve followed his incredible career. I don’t think that we will ever, ever again see an athlete in any sport dominate like he dominates. We certainly haven’t seen it before. Yes, my background in pro football of 18 years was a glorious career, but I have never seen anybody do what Tiger Woods is doing. He is winning 30% of the tournaments he tees up. He’s got a perfect year going this year with 4 straight tournaments. It just looks like everybody is playing for 2nd place. You look at how he handles himself. He is totally under control, he is totally focused, and he continues to work on his game. He has a desire to get better. He treats people with dignity. He just is about as perfect a person as you can get, and he is the icon of sports celebrity in the world. There’s nobody that’s even close to him. Yes, in the past we’ve said Muhammad Ali was the biggest sports celebrity and Michael Jordan was the biggest sports celebrity. Quite frankly I never thought we’d ever see an icon like Muhammad or Michael, but we have. But Tiger has gone beyond all that. And the reason I’ve put this information out is that I think that something else is going to happen very shortly.

Tiger has never, in my memory, endorsed any political candidate or taken any strong political stand. Sometimes people have even criticized him for that. I certainly haven’t. I think he’s done everything right. But I’m going to share with you that I think that very soon, in this historic year of politics in America, Tiger Woods will come out with a strong endorsement of Barack Obama. And I think it would be the right thing for him to do.

It is an historic time – a young black man running for President of the United States of America, with a very good chance to win. And here is an icon of sports who happens to be black, endorsing that candidate. Opra Winfrey had never supported another candidate publicly before, and she’s come out, as she should. And I just believe that the two of these tremendous men, Barack Obama and Tiger Woods should join forces, and my prediction is that Tiger, in the next few weeks or months, will come out with a strong endorsement of Barack. Watch for it.