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Cam says there was no long hair/tattoo ban


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This whole thing started from comments made personally by Jerry Richardson himself.

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/6894818/carolina-panthers-jerry-richardson-cam-newton-no-tats-piercings

In a recent interview on "The Charlie Rose Show" on PBS, the 75-year-old Richardson recounted a conversation he had with the 22-year-old Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback on April 4 in which he asked Newton if he had any tattoos or piercings.

When Newton replied "No sir, I don't have any," Richardson told Rose he told the quarterback: "Good. We want to keep it that way."

Richardson first revealed his conversation with Newton in a Charlotte Observer interview in the spring after the quarterback was drafted. The April 4 meeting came just weeks after the team had signed tight end Jeremy Shockey, who has several tattoos.

"I'm not a choirboy. I've never said I was. And I don't want a roster of 53 choirboys," he told the newspaper in April. "I told Jeremy Shockey, 'Don't change your personality. It'll be good for the team. I could do without the tattoos, though."

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7 minutes ago, TheRed said:

This whole thing started from comments made personally by Jerry Richardson himself.

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/6894818/carolina-panthers-jerry-richardson-cam-newton-no-tats-piercings

 

 

An off hand comment is a bit different than forbidding him to do it or anything along those lines. Seems like JR understood that these are grown men and was just voicing an opinion.

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Was a bizarre statement from JR that was clearly(now confirmed) overblown. Just an old mans opinion on tattoos and he clearly had Shockey and others with tattoos on the team so it's a non issue and the JR issues turned out to be much bigger anyway. If it were true Cam has 0 reason to say otherwise at this point. 

If you hang around old people you'd know they say all kinds of random poo or opine on irrelevant poo to what's going on around them. Old man is old...

"Man I look forward to being your QB"

"Do you have any tattoos"

"Uh...no"

"Cool yea man I don't like tattoos"

"so about that #1 overall"

"oh look a duck, back in my day we called them quackers and you used to be able to get a loaf of bread for a nickle, and the nickles were actually made of nickel, and..."

-walks away..

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6 minutes ago, Davidson Deac II said:

But it had to be true, it was posted a lot.  :)

I have a feeling 90% of what we read here and on social media about the team is false. 

Could be the Richardson misremembered. Could also be that Newton wants to deny that it happened for whatever reason.

It's not an earth-shattering issue either way, but it is kind of odd.

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Regardless of how you want to rationalize or soften his remarks, it's clearly an indicative reflection of the man he was and why he ultimately ended up having to sell the team.

What's done is done. He cemented his own tainted legacy. That's on him.

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