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Cam Makes Surprise Party Visit For Terminally Ill Child

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Edit: here is a link

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/09/cam-newton-surprises-10-year-old-boy-battling-cancer

Just found out about this...   Apologies if it's already been posted.  Watching Mike and Mike before paying bills and they kept teasing about "the best story" they had all day on their rundown but hadn't made it to air yet because of other topics like Larry Brown, Leonard Fournette, etc. 

So they finally just got to it and it had me over here looking like Terrell Owens saying "that's my QB," literally in tears...   

I'll see if I can find the actual story, but they said they posted the accompanying video on their pages in the meantime.  A 10 year old boy, named Elijah, with a rare form of terminal cancer had found out that his illness had spread and he likely would pass by Halloween.   Turns out, Halloween is his favorite holiday.  After his community found out, they organized an early Halloween party for him...   They had a professional makeup artists help create his costume and help him get in it and such...   Mike and Mike said Cam, on his own volition, hears about this, gives the child and his family a call and offers encouragement and we'll wishes.  They point out that pro athletes do these such things all the time without publicitiy...  But then Cam took it a step further... 

He ended up, unannounced, showing up to the party without any prior notice or anyone else knowing his intentions and hung out with the child.  He also brought in his own ice cream truck and steak and shrimp dinner for the entire community. 

Amazing...   It really got me in the feels.  Cam is just awesome in every way and I feel blessed to have him as the face of our franchise.  I recall when he was coming out in the draft, after learning about what happened with him in Florida and seeing his subsequent journey, I felt an even greater draw to pull for him to succeed because I related to his story.   A kid that made some mistakes, that people counted out, that people wrote off, and that people thought they had the book on, but they really had no idea...   What an amazing person he COULD BE.  To me, even with him being a few years younger than myself, I stand in awe and admiration, that even after achieving professional success, receiving accolades, and becoming rich beyond anyone's wildest dreams, that he's turning around and giving back to people in need when he could easily mind his own business.  In that sense, I think Cam serves as a great reminder that the best thing you can do is do for others. 

And beyond that, prayers and thoughts with the child and his family above all else. 

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You are one emmotional dude

Forgive me for allowing the humanity of the story to resonate with me.

The older I get, the more I realize that the world is a cold, cold, messed up place by and large...  And genuinely GOOD people, with pure hearts and the best intentions are a growing rarity.  Even rarer than those good people, are the ones who choose to outwardly express those traits and encourage, give back, and strengthen others with them.

Furthermore, after seeing how Cam has been treated and judged by people who don't know him, and seeing the things that he has went through in his public life from Florida until present, he has every reason to NOT be a positive person...  A person who gives back...  A good person.  And yet, he IS.  That is worth recognizing and appreciating, just as this story is, regardless of whether Cam was a well-known professional athlete or not...

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Cool story....came out last week though.

Sorry, didn't see it and the TBH, I'm not even sure if I know where the search function is in this iteration of the huddle, lol.

At the very least, I figured it was "news" in the sense that it was a top story on a national media sports talk show.  We rarely get good press, especially our QB, and so hearing this for the first time, and hearing it on mainstream media, I thought it was worth sharing.

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Still a nice story. Better late than never that it got some national attention. On a side note, the just released Colin Cole was present at the party, also. Not sure if he lives in the neighborhood and helped plan the party or if he just went with Cam, but he is in a few of the pics of the party.

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I love Cam.  Love you too Proudiddy, love all you sum bitches.  You're like family I've never met. 

If you have kids, you get what this story really means.  Cam is bigger than the game, and that's a great quality of his; he sees the bigger picture. 

Fug cancer all the way to hell. 

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