Every single time I see anything about Newton, I remember the Nolan Nawrocki scouting report.
“Very disingenuous — has a fake smile, comes off as very scripted and has a selfish, me-first makeup.
“Always knows where the cameras are and plays to them. Has an enormous ego with a sense of entitlement that continually invites trouble and makes him believe he is above the law — does not command respect from teammates and will always struggle to win a locker room ... Lacks accountability, focus and trustworthiness — is not punctual, seeks shortcuts and sets a bad example. Immature and has had issues with authority. Not dependable."
It was so dead on.
Everything the guy does, that horrible commercial* the networks insist on playing over, and over, and over, where Cam shows us three different sides of his "personality" and SURPRISE, they're all exactly the same...narcissists to the extreme, is designed to draw attention to him.
I've actually gone from not really caring much about the guy one way or the other (except I hate how overrated he is!) to the point where it's pretty much a toss up between him or Kaepernick of which NFL QB I cannot stomach the most.
What's funniest about the link was the attempt to get people to stop commenting on the obvious, that THIS IS NOT NEWS!!!
Sorry the author took offense to everyone pointing that out, but it's true, it's not news, and NO ONE CARES, other than weird people who care about football "celebrations" as though they were a thing to be judged.
NFL network asked the question, what should Cam Newton's new celebration be, and my response, (as well as MANY others) was, how about hand the ref the ball!
I HATE the media's fawning approach to these stupid displays. I loathe it. The celebrations themselves, as stupid as they are, I can live with, as long as the media doesn't shove them down my throat, as though they were in any way a part of the game itself, or remotely cool or interesting...they are not.
If there was any one thing about the NFL I would get rid of, it's the promotion of the celebrations, as though they were some kind of performance art or something.
That the media treats Cam deciding to stop his lame dabbing as a news story, literally disgusts me.
*That commercial has to be the single worst commercial featuring any athlete, of all time! It's so horrible, so unwatchable, so ridiculously awful, it makes Shaq's stupid commercials seem brilliant by comparison. His extreme narcissism is actually the entire focus of the thing...it's amazing that some ad exec somewhere actually decided that, "Hey, you know what would be a great idea? Let's show the world exactly what a phony, narcissist Cam Newton is, and play it off like it's funny and cool to be such a dope, and see how many heads-full-of-mush, suckers and chumps buy what we're selling!"