That, minus much of the doucheness, pretty much describes Cam Newton as well.
I dislike Cam Newton. I was somewhat neutral on him for a while, but when I began seeing more of him the year before last when he went to the Super Bowl, I disliked him more, the more I saw of him.
I generally don’t like hotdogging. I don’t mind a player celebrating, even one a little over the top. But there was something in the way the Cam Newton celebrated that was akin to (even if he didn’t do it because it would be a penalty) getting right into the face of the person you beat, holding the ball in front of their face and taunting them. There was something innately “personal” in it the way he did it.
But when he had his post Super Bowl meltdown, that did it for me. It froze him into the douchebag-baby mode for me.
When Brady lost in 2007 and 2011, he dutifully went in front of the cameras.
When Matt Ryan gave his shell-shocked interview after last year, my respect for him went up 1000 percent. That had to be tough.
But...the losers of big games all have do that, and most handle it in some professional way. Cam Newton should have too, but didn’t. I thought it reflected horribly on him.