Posted on 01/27/2016 2:41:27 PM PST by Cecily
CHARLOTTE, N.C. â Panthers quarterback Cam Newton suggested for the first time Wednesday that race may play a factor in why he's become a lightning rod for public criticism.
"I'm an African-American quarterback that scares people because they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to," said the 6-foot-5, 245-pound Newton.
The No. 1 pick in the 2011 NFL draft out of Auburn, Newton has his share of detractors who either don't like how he plays, his celebrations or his abundance of self-confidence.
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You letting your ego writes checks, Cam....
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He's a genius.
Irrelevant. He is the best of the best. Go Carolina.
I’m a real fan of his extended “whiney” snap-count.
New. Innovative. He owns it.
Yeah...he’s a bit over-confident but, if the teams coalesces behind him...they might beat Manning Heavy.
Class Act this guy is./s
I thought quarterbacks were supposed to be smart.
Actually, there is a CAM in Team...somewhere.
Just ask him...he will tell you.
And Cam, you’re welcome.........
No one can talk that trash like Newton and Trump.
I was and still am a big Randall Cunningham fan. Let’s see Cam Newton punt the ball 98 yards from the shotgun?
I’d really like him if he kept his mouth shut.
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That has nothing to do with race.
I think Manziel is a clown. Does that have anything to do with race?
Andrew Luck is 6 foot 4 inches, 240 pounds. he’s white and he’ll be around longer.
Denver plus 4.5 points in the Super Bowl is looking good to me. I will take pleasure in watching Thug Newton losing.
It was only a matter of time... before Cam plays the Race Card--
Frankly, I thought it would be after that old White Man, Peyton Manning... beats him in the Super Bowl--
I heard a report from the first-responders at a car crash he was involved in.
They all agreed he was the most insufferable and arrogant jerk they had ever met.
“You know who I am????”
FWIW.
He’s a physical speciman, but not much upstairs.
Cam; First order of bizness: use Standard English if you want Standard Treatment. “They haven’t seen NOTHING is a double negative, and for someone in your position to address the press that way, you give the appearance of being uneducated or worse, totally ignorant of what Standard English should be. Crack a book, Son! Don’t use the excuse that speaking correctly is ‘talking white’. That’s as wrong as it is stupid and an excuse for failure.
A bit racist of him but I love a good smack talking althlete. He is good. Very good. So now let’s see if he can beat gramps Manning or go home sulking and schooled.
Both Cam and Payton are jerks, full of themselves and no fun to watch.
Payton runs around before the hike of the ball acting like no other player knows the plays, waving and screaming like a punk kid. Nauseating.
Cam hasn’t changed since he threw a stolen computer out of his dorm room at Florida before leaving school there, which was prior to his dad putting him up for sale to the highest bidding college as he was coming out of junior college at Binn.
Clearly the college scholarship money used to send him to English class was well spent.
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