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FarCenter

(19,429 posts)
Tue May 21, 2013, 09:31 PM May 2013

Sergio Garcia Has Now Made A 'Fried Chicken' Joke About Tiger Woods

The Sergio Garcia-Tiger Woods feud has taken an ugly turn, finally.

At the European Tour's gala players' awards Garcia was jokingly asked if he would have Woods round for dinner during the U.S. Open, Ewan Murray at The Guardian reports.

Garcia responded saying, "We will have him round every night," then adding, "We will serve fried chicken."



Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/sergio-garcia-has-now-made-a-fried-chicken-joke-about-tiger-woods-2013-5
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FarCenter

(19,429 posts)
3. Sergio Garcia
Tue May 21, 2013, 09:35 PM
May 2013
Sergio García Fernández (born 9 January 1980) is a professional golfer from Spain who plays on both the PGA Tour and the European Tour. He has won over 20 international tournaments, including The Players Championship in 2008.

García has spent much of his career in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Ranking (over 300 weeks between 2000 and 2009).[1][2] He reached a career high ranking of 2nd after winning the HSBC Champions tournament in November 2008, and has achieved career earnings of over $28 million.

JeffHead

(1,186 posts)
5. No story here. It's not like it's never been done before.
Tue May 21, 2013, 09:42 PM
May 2013

Here's Fuzzy Zoeller with a side order of collard greens

abbeyco

(1,555 posts)
7. Sergio Garcia probably tried to find out an offensive quote
Tue May 21, 2013, 09:54 PM
May 2013

I'm no Tiger fan but honestly, couldn't the PGA people school their members that fried chicken and watermelon quips are classless?

UTUSN

(70,685 posts)
6. Spaniards & other ancient cultures have their prejudiced words
Tue May 21, 2013, 09:52 PM
May 2013

At some Olympics in China the Spanish (hockey/soccer?) team was team pictured each one of them stretching their eyes "slant."

My point is that just about all other nationalities/cultures would yield examples of their own incorrectness.




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http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/aug/11/olympicsbasketball.olympics20081

[font size=5]Olympics: Spain's eye-catching faux pas[/font]

Spain's Olympic basketball teams have risked upsetting their Chinese hosts by posing for a pre-Games advert making slit-eyed gestures. The advert for a courier company, which is an official sponsor of the Spanish Basketball Federation, occupied a full page in the sports daily Marca, the country's best-selling newspaper.

The advert features two large photographs, one of the men's basketball team, above, and one of the women's team. Both squads pose in full Olympic kit on a basketball court decorated with a picture of a Chinese dragon. Every single player appears pulling back the skin on either side of their eyes. The advert carries the symbol of the sport's governing body.

No one involved in the advert appears to have considered it inappropriate nor contemplated the manner in which it could be interpreted in China and elsewhere. No offence was intended by the advert, but whether the Chinese see it that way is a different matter and it is likely to provoke more criticism at a delicate time for Spanish sport. The failure to recognise the potential consequences is striking in the light of the problems Spain has had with issues of race and the Spanish Olympic committee's continued desire to host the Games in Madrid in 2016 or 2020.

In the past the Spanish have been left in no doubt as to the sensitivity of racial issues internationally, especially since Spain's football manager, Luis Aragonés, made his infamous remark about Thierry Henry, monkey chants greeted England's football players in a friendly game in Madrid and the formula one driver Lewis Hamilton was subjected to abuse in Barcelona.

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UTUSN

(70,685 posts)
12. Also, when O'LOOFAH used the word "wetback" there wasn't a ripple.
Tue May 21, 2013, 10:06 PM
May 2013

Understandably (sarcasm), it was his provincialism in "mistaking" that word for "coyote" because of his 1950s upbringing in a church/ethnic schooling where he has ZERO idea of other cultures.

Pisces

(5,599 posts)
13. He' a loser and a racist pig!! He has given up his true reason for disliking Tiger ( a black man
Tue May 21, 2013, 10:12 PM
May 2013

dominating in a white sport). This guy has ruined himself with this comment.

CakeGrrl

(10,611 posts)
14. He couldn't leave well enough alone, huh?
Tue May 21, 2013, 10:20 PM
May 2013

How soon 'til his PR people are saying he didn't realize it was in poor taste, etc. etc.?

He'll quickly find out that there may be some people who laugh at those jokes, but on the whole, it's not going to go over well.

tularetom

(23,664 posts)
15. I always sorta liked Sergio he seemed like a guy who was always happy to finish second
Tue May 21, 2013, 10:23 PM
May 2013

and I always sorta didn't like Tiger all that much because it appeared that things came too easy to him.

That's all changed now. IMO Tiger got a crappy deal from the press for the first year or two after his "troubles" and I've been a big fan ever since. Meanwhile, Sergio seems doomed to be the latest BPWNWAM (Best Player Who Never Won A Major) and it appears to be getting into his head.

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