For someone with a highly checkered past, and for someone who has benefited from the public’s willingness to forgive (again and again), Jim Brown sure has some stones in calling out Tiger Woods and Kelly Tilghman. Tilghman is the Golf Channel anchor who suggested that to stop Tiger Woods, players on the PGA Tour should “lynch Tiger Woods in a back alley.” Not a great choice of metaphor by Tilghman, particularly in reference to a black athlete. …
This article appears in Jan 23-30, 2008.