EA stands by Tiger Woods said no other golfer can replace him.

[theRepublic]

NJ5 said:

theRepublic said:

I'll add to this that if he takes too much time off he is going to have problems with his sponsors.

To tell the truth I didn't read much about this whole Tiger Woods crap (don't really care about golf), but I just found this on google news:

http://msn.foxsports.com/golf/story/10513486/We'll-never-look-at-Tiger-the-same-way-again

Just the other day, a survey conducted by Argyle Executive Forum showed that 37 percent of marketers polled would "suspend" a relationship with Woods and 25 percent would "cancel" it. Only 22 percent voted for maintaining a relationship.

 

So far there hasn't been much backlash from his actual sponsors.  However, if he takes an extended leave from golf, I guarantee that that his sponsors would be more pissed off at that than this controversy.