Knights of NFC South Futility is now in session!

[cranky]

I don't really post much here but the article is funny enough that I though some of you wold appreciate it. Go to the preview between the Saints and Chicago towards the bottom of the article.

 

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2296720-nfl-week-15-picks-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-49ers-empire-also-johnny-manziel

[mav1234]

Wow.  There's some good stuff in there.  Nice words about Cam:

 

So there was Cam Newton lying on the highway on Tuesday afternoon, flipped pickup truck in the background, receiving medical treatment after the kind of auto accident that provokes the sign of the cross from passing rubberneckers. In obvious pain, Newton still smiled broadly at the camera, as if he wanted to make sure Twitter saw the Under Armor logo on his jacket, as if he were posing for the cover of the 2015 Athletes and Paramedics Wall Calendar. I suppose a critic could suggest he "always knows where the cameras are and plays to them," though this was a pretty extreme example.

 

Was Newton's smile phony? I lack that sort of scouting acumen. Maybe it's a philosophical question: If you put on a fake smile to mask obvious pain, doesn't your urge to mask the pain make the smile real?

 

The angry fan's cliche is based on the belief that a quarterback who behaves at all times like he just crawled out of a foxhole is somehow tougher, more committed and more real than someone capable of feeling and expressing the full spectrum of human emotions, even when his football team is trailing by 10. I've never met anyone relentlessly grim and determined at all times who was not putting on a "fake" act of their own, except for one or two people who ended up needing medication. Tough, dedicated, resilient leaders sometimes smile when things go wrong. That smile is often more inspirational than a frown or a furious shout.

 

The next time you get mad because your quarterback isn't brooding like Batman after a three-and-out, remember Cam Newton after his truck accident. Some people smile in the face adversity. The world needs more people like that.

 

Some wisdom in those words.  There's a couple paragraphs before it on the Panthers, and some funny notes about the other games, so check this out even if, like me, you usually pass on BR.

 

The Saints section to which this headline alludes is hilarious, as well, but I'll save that pasting for someone else

[DaveThePanther2008]

A TIE? Wow I wonder what that would do to our playoff hopes.

[Dexterity]

Cam wasn't smiling, he was grimacing in pain.

[GRWatcher]

 

There's a breed of fan who flies into a blinding rage at the sight of a quarterback smiling when things aren't going well.

 

Or he gestures for a 1st down that he got by running himself. Or celebrates a TD he just scored. Or gives a TD football to a child at the end zone. Or ......

 

So true!! There are too many fans like that. Too many.

[SOJA]

Cam wasn't smiling, he was grimacing in pain.

This guy was there he knows

/s

[jim stone]

A TIE? Wow I wonder what that would do to our playoff hopes.

 

A tie game pretty much insures there will be no tie for the NFC south.

[mav1234]

Cam wasn't smiling, he was grimacing in pain.

I think he was smiling he was alive... but who knows,not sure if he had commented on it. Either way, the point of the quote was more general than that. Way too many people up in arms at cam smiling over the last few years

[Jimmy]

SILENCE!