did we know about the time last summer Cam joined a flag football game?

[Captain Morgan]

I don't remember this..I remember the volleyball but not this

 

 

 

Saturday in July 2015, Cam Newton walked past a flag football game in Atlanta and yelled: “It’s hot!” Newton wasn’t shouting to anyone in particular, because he didn’t know any of the players on the field. As he later explained to some of the pigskin participants, he was in Mozley Park visiting friends.

But a team from Greensboro, North Carolina, that was in town for the Fallen Warriors tournament recognized the Carolina Panthers quarterback and asked Newton if he would like to sit under their tent to escape the heat, which had topped 90 degrees. Newton shocked the members of the squad, named AthElites, by taking them up on their offer, then stunned them further by asking if they needed an extra player.

And then Newton joined the group of 20- and 30-somethings for some recreational flag football.

“We gave him an opportunity to play quarterback,” said Franklin Terry, one of the AthElites members. “But he said he didn’t want to take away from the team, so he’d just play wide receiver.”

Newton caught a few fade passes with ease (he is 6-foot-5, after all) and was, Terry said, “the world’s greatest hype man.” When one player took a screen pass and ran for a huge gain, Newton was elated, screaming: “Without a block!? He did that without a block!?” He was, Terry claimed, more excited for AthElites’ scores than regular members of the team.

Newton contributed beyond hauling in passes and cheerleading: Terry recalled the former no. 1 overall NFL draft pick asking a snow cone vendor how much he usually makes in a day, then buying him out and handing the snow cones to players and bystanders in the park. Between the two games in which Newton participated, he briefly left to fetch restorative Pedialyte for the whole AthElites team. It was all, to put it mildly, completely insane.

more at the link

https://theringer.com/cam-newton-carolina-panthers-pickup-games-aab9536a9070#.rsi491wwe

 

 

 

 

 

 

[TheMostInterestingMan]

Yeah. Some people got pretty mad at it around here, in typical huddle fashion haha

[rippadonn]

Solidifying his HOF cred. The people's champ

[truthjuice]

Supercam

[Captain Morgan]

it's a good article, the part about the girl blocking Cam in the volleyball game and their trash talk was funny

[Shufdog]

Don't know if this is the same one, but I think it is.

 

[TN05]

Good thing he didn't break his arm like Steve did that one time.

[Bronn]

[General_Purr]

I love that. I can relate to that primal boy feeling of passing a field seeing a game with people engaged and having fun and wanting to be out there. Cam is genuinely a good person