YOU don't know Cam Newton

[LUUUUUKE]

Jeff Darlington from NFL.COM wrote a hell of an article on the "perception of Cam Newton"

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000593136/article/cam-newtons-polarizing-persona-beloved-by-carolina-panthers

Excellent read!

 

 

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Panthers safety Roman Harper used to be like the rest of them. Back when Harper played for the rival Saints, during Newton's first three seasons in the NFL, he used to look at the Carolina quarterback with those same rolling eyes adopted by so many more this year.

So yes, he gets it.

Yes, he understands the skepticism and the misperceptions. He understands, for those outside Charlotte who can't decide how to feel about Newton, why a guy like him, seemingly just trying to have some fun, manages to come across the wrong way.

"Before I got here?" Harper said Wednesday. "I didn't know him. But I thought he was selfish. I thought he was all about himself. Things like that. Before I got here, my opinion wasn't that great, either. But that's because I didn't know him."

 

 

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We saw the criticism when he ripped a Packers banner from the wall at Bank of America Stadium (his home stadium). We heard it from Titans players who believed he celebrated too much and for too long with "the dab," an Atlanta-born dance move.

We even read about it in a letter to the Charlotte Observer, from the mother of a 9-year-old girl criticizing Newton for his "arrogant" on-field behavior. And when the heat starts to spew from more than a few places, it's probably leading quite a few to question the intentions of the Panthers' superstar

 

 

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"Man, back when I was playing for Coach [Mike] Ditka, we had guys who transcended that time in football, and I promise you, a lot of people hated us because of it," Rivera said. "But it was never anything malicious.

"It was like that with the Super Bowl Shuffle. Now, I hope we never do anything like that here, but we were having fun. That's what it's about. At the end of the day, a lot of people started to emulate what we did with the Bears because they wanted to have fun."

 

 

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The truth? Newton is the type of player you'd love to have in your locker room, in your city, on the team you root for or the team you play for. And when it comes down to it, isn't that what actually matters?

"Back when we did the Super Bowl Shuffle, I just remember people saying, 'Oh, they're a little ahead of themselves,' " Rivera said. "I vividly remember the criticism. But in Chicago ... Are you kidding me? They still love it."

In Charlotte, they love Newton.

And if he keeps winning like this, you'd better believe they always will.

 

Damned right we will! We have since DAY 1!

#KeepPounding

 

[The Huddler]

Yeah i do

[Riverboat Ron]

I bet the poster who played Cam on Madden knows him better than all of us.

[bLACKpANTHER]

 

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[Daddy_Uncle]

I bet Santa Claus does

[PandaPancake]

Bo knows