Cam Newton emerges as NFL's Lebron

[tiger7_88]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/cam-newton-emerges-as-nfl-s-lebron--which-creates-fear-and-loathing-011100461.html

 

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This is the kind of thing that drives onlookers batty. It comes off as aloof or arrogant. "Is he serious with this?" is a likely refrain about everything from his postgame comments to his end-zone celebrations to his pregame warm-up shirt, with an illustration of he and his newborn son, Chosen, dabbing.

"Nobody gets him," says rookie receiver Devin Funchess. "They don't. But if you sit with him for a week or even for half a day, you get it."

What Funchess gets, and what the entire Panthers roster seems to get, is that Newton is both goofy and earnest, both the guy who leads dance battles at practice and the guy who shows up at the crack of dawn to work on an extra route. A lot of quarterbacks are ultra-serious, or nerdy; that's how a lot of fans like it. Newton is a cut-up as well as a cutthroat competitor. The stern look and the poof on his hat are both real, even if they aren't always embraced.

"They don't know," Funchess says of the outsiders. "They always want to bring somebody down."

Asked if he thinks Newton minds the spite, the rookie scoffs.

"Small thing to a giant."

 

 

[PanthersGOATFan336]

Lebron had to leave his city to get a championship ring, Cam will get his ringS here

[heelinfine]

Love the Funchess quote. "Small thing to a giant".

[tiger7_88]

2 minutes ago, Promethean Forerunner said:

Breaking News:

Water is wet.

Unfortunately, it IS "breaking news" to many in the NFL media.

[FootballMaestro]

Good article. But the stuff the reporter started out with as his example was really nothing IMO (which was left out in the OP's quote).

This is it, for those who didn't read the article.

 

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He flashed looks ranging from quizzical to amused as he answered questions, his grin twisting and his eyes scanning. Asked about teammate Thomas Davis' hands play that secured the Seahawks' last-gasp onside kick attempt and clinched a trip to the NFC championship game for the Panthers, Newton wondered aloud why he wasn't on the hands team. He commented about not wearing gloves like some quarterbacks do, and lauded his "organic hands."

Then, after one long-winded question he playfully asked, "Are you done?" After another question about whether he had something to say to the "little dabbers" out there, he said, "Hi." Then: "I don't want to say anything to offend anyone." He smiled as a punctuation mark.

 

Don't think that was worth writing an article about. Nonetheless, we get the point about Cam being similar to Lebron (not just on the field or physically) for the hysteria he creates with some fans. So true.

[UNCrules2187]

[ecu88]

No no no wrong

Cam will be the NFL's version of MJ.

LeBron.................................................hmm no

 

[t96]

14 minutes ago, heelinfine said:

Love the Funchess quote. "Small thing to a giant".

Yep only reason I liked the article. LeBron and Cam have some similarities but they really are so different from each other. Cam is the NFL's Jordan.

[CPantherKing]

And the scary thing to the rest of the NFL and fans who are waking up to it now... Cam is only going to get better. This is year 5. Between year 5 and year 8 is when a franchise QB begins to take over. Year 8 to year 15 is when they have mastered the NFL and begin to dominate.