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Wife's birthday is on Sunday... Exactly how long in the dog house is seeing Cam's entrance out the tunnel worth?

"Ric Flair's heart is with the 49ers" He's dead to me as far as my football fandom goes.

Clearly Cam and CMC didn't miss a beat in their season and a half apart. I watch that, and I can't imagine how that's not a fumble when you execute it at game speed. Cam and McCaffrey executed if flawlessly with 2 days of practice.

Mood. Big mood.

I won't be instantly dismissive of anything critical of Cam, or tempering our expectations, but I will say that their critiques don't seem to go any further than, "He's not the same QB he was in 2015, and you're an idiot if you're getting your hopes up." What they're utterly failing to take into account is there's more to being a QB than just your stats. You need to be a field general, a leader and a motivator. I don't see how you can't look at the smile on Robby's face in the end zone, the entire team huddling around Cam on the sideline, and the palpable sense of swagger that we had on Sunday, and say he's not gong to be able to make an impact on this team. Yeah, nothing in there you won't find in an average message board poo post.

Agreed. YouTube and Reddit were fine. But this was pretty much the entirety of my sports app comment section:

- quote from an internet rando to an internet rando

I've been reading a few articles about yesterday's game, and then making my way down to the comments section. I was surprised by how overwhelmingly negative the comments were: "Sir Cameron Newton: Leader of Men, Lover of Puppies...Esquire," "The Cardinals didn't have Kyler or Hopkins," "He's washed," "Only 8 yards passing." On and on and on and on... And then I realized something. Damn, this feels good! As good as I feel basking in the glow of victory, and the poetry of Cam being a Panther again, I must admit, it needed a little extra flavor. And all the salt people are coming out of the woodwork to dish out today... It's been a couple years, so I forgot the Panthers experience isn't complete without haters popping up to talk poo nonstop about Cam Newton. I didn't realize how much I missed it. I didn't realize how much we needed it, and how much it's part of our identity. Because as upsetting as it might be to have people talking poo about us when we're trying to enjoy our win, it means they're talking about us. Two years. Two long years of silence. Two painfully long years of irrelevance. Just bland, flavorless, nothing. And then Cam's back. And then we win. And all of a sudden people can't shut up about us. It feels so right. So come on, haters. Dish it out! You're just making it better!

The offense not being a liability shows just how good this defense really is. We might actually have a contender here, boys!

Certainly.

Make millions of dollars in a single day, then nosh on some microwave brussel sprouts on a private jet. I don't know if that's country, but it's a lifestyle I could very much get into.

I'm not watching anything by Pat Macafee until that mf puts on a shirt.

Then we'll feel reeeeeally good about him being our backup!

Thanks for (re)sharing! I don't know if people can truly appreciate how fugging hard it is to draw something blurry, but that's an amazingly talented artist.

Yeah, you're too good for it. Better fug off, then. Woe betide us who remain here.

Jeez, chill Shaq. Are you really surprised reporters are asking about probably the most significant story in sports today?

This isn't said in a mean-spirited way but: Someone like Cam wouldn't miss the opportunity to do so.

I believe that. I also don't think it makes a difference.

Guys, I know it's only been an hour, but I'm not sure I can wait the full four hours before calling my doctor about this erection.

I think it would benefit Sam. But I think the fans have turned on Sam, and I don't think he can win them back. He needs some time as a QB to get his head right. But I don't see him stepping on the field for the Panthers again being met with anything other than boos.

I love Luke enough to say that I never want to see him ever play another down of football. Health and long life to the greatest LB in Panthers history.

Honestly, today's a day to quietly release Darnold. Everyone will be caught up with the hoopla of the Cam announcement, it would basically go unnoticed.

I kinda know what you mean, actually. I never knew how much I really wanted something I didn't want until today.