{"id":1532,"date":"2009-12-09T11:24:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T19:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2019-04-26T17:49:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T01:49:05","slug":"tiger-on-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/tiger-on-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger: On the game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memo to the <strong>Las Vegas Convention &amp; Visitors Authority<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Boys, it&#8217;s time to re-retire that &#8220;What happens here &#8230;&#8221; slogan because it is <em>so<\/em> yesterday. Sure, there was an era when a man of privilege might come to Las Vegas to unleash his inner <strong>Don Draper<\/strong>, especially when it came to having carnal knowledge of women other than the one to whom he&#8217;s married.<\/p>\n<p>But with all the prominent Vegas wankers that have been caught playing &#8216;hide the salami&#8217; of late, perhaps it&#8217;s time for a slogan that more accurately represents the state of, um, affairs. Like, &#8216;<em>What happens here will put your ass in a nationwide sling<\/em>.&#8217; (Or maybe, &#8220;There&#8217;s nothing wrong with that.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>First it was a certain golfer (and occasional U.S. senator) who got his dad &#8212; casino baron <strong>Mike Ensign<\/strong> &#8212; embroiled in a pay-for-poontang brouhaha that was recently named the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lasvegascitylife.com\/various-things-and-stuff\/2009\/12\/08\/were-no-5-oh-well-close-enough\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fifth-biggest scandal of the year<\/a>. (We expected a better ranking but <strong>John Ensign<\/strong> always was kind of an underachiever.)<\/p>\n<p>Now along comes another noted figure on the links, <strong>Tiger Woods<\/strong>, who&#8217;s sinking in a bunker of quicksand. Mr. Woods&#8217; adventures in infidelity are starting to bring wider attention to an inconvenient Vegas truth: That casino hosts and nightclub hostesses have no difficulty or compunction about supplying their clients with <a href=\"http:\/\/deadspin.com\/5416948\/chaos-in-tigerland-a-deadspin-investigation-into-the-sexual-habits-of-pro-athletes?skyline=true&amp;s=x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a string of women of easy virtue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is scarcely a news flash<\/strong> around here. Heck, <em>S&amp;G<\/em>&#8216;s heard tell about high rollers getting blown on the casino floor (bringing a new meaning to the poker term &#8220;suck out&#8221;) and of prostitutes being allowed to peddle their wares in Strip casino bars, so long as security&#8217;s palm is greased. Heck, in the seamiest, sordid-est, most <strong>Columbia Sussex<\/strong>ed days of the <strong>Tropicana Las Vegas<\/strong>, private investigators described encountering security personnel who were acting as the working girls&#8217; protectors. The <strong>Nevada Gaming Control Board<\/strong>, per ancient custom, found nothing untoward in this.<\/p>\n<p>Tiger Woods, obviously, doesn&#8217;t have to avail himself of the garden variety Vegas hooker. Besides, these women have <em>standards<\/em>. As one VIP host says, in praise of <strong>Rachel Uchitel<\/strong>: &#8220;She&#8217;s not a fucking floozy or nothing. She&#8217;s a <em>real<\/em> event planner. She&#8217;s not just some girl that lifts up the velvet rope and sucks guy&#8217;s dicks. She&#8217;s the kind of girl that when you talk to her, you know, she&#8217;s all business. She&#8217;s beautiful, she&#8217;s smart and her agenda is to land big clients \u2014 not big boyfriends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Very reassuring. I&#8217;m sure Mrs. Woods feels much better knowing that. And remember ladies: Don&#8217;t sleep with the &#8220;whales,&#8221; or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackbookmag.com\/article\/good-night-mr-lewis-beyond-tiger-woods-rachel-uchitel\/13763\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">your promising career in &#8220;event planning&#8221;<\/a> will be &#8212; how shall we say? &#8212; screwed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memo to the Las Vegas Convention &amp; Visitors Authority: Boys, it&#8217;s time to re-retire that &#8220;What happens here &#8230;&#8221; slogan because it is so yesterday. Sure, there was an era when a man of privilege might come to Las Vegas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/tiger-on-the-game\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,28,25,74,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24033,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions\/24033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}