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by: QuispNQuake Active Indicator LED Icon 8 OP 
~ 8 years ago   Feb 9, '16 5:12pm  
Well, here it is!!
 
From the New York Times:
 
"Cam Newton Defends Post Game Behavior at Super Bowl"
 
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton is not apologizing for acting like a “sore loser” after the Super Bowl.
 
Newton has been widely criticized for walking out of a three-minute news conference after a 24-10 loss to the Denver Broncos on Sunday. He answered questions with mostly one- and two-word responses while sulking in his chair wearing a Panthers hoodie over his head.
 
“Show me a good loser and I’ll show you a loser,” Newton said Tuesday as players cleaned out their lockers at the team’s downtown stadium.
 
Newton said he believed the situation was being overblown by the news media, and added he did not plan to change how he reacts to losing just to appease his critics.
 
“If I offended anybody, that’s cool, but I know who I am and I’m not about to conform nor bend for anybody’s expectations because yours or anybody’s expectations would never exceed mine,” Newton said.
 
At one point during Newton’s nearly seven-minute interview, his teammates walked behind the reporters gathered three-deep around his locker and starting saying, “We love you, Cam,” and even sang him a song, lightening the mood.
 
Newton said his emotions were raw after the game and he simply did not want to talk to the news media.
 
“When you invest so much time and sacrifice so much and things don’t go as planned, I think emotions take over,” Newton said. “I think that is what happens.”
 
Panthers Coach Ron Rivera said that while he preferred Newton would have handled the situation a little better, he understood where Newton was coming from and what he felt at the time.
 
“He hates to lose, that’s the bottom line,” Rivera said. “That is what you love in him. I would much rather have a guy who hates to lose than a guy who accepts it. The guy who accepts it, you might as well just push him out of your locker room because you don’t want him around.
 
“That is a beauty of a guy like that — he wants to win and his teammates know it. That is what it is about. We don’t play this game for a participation trophy. We want to win.”
 
Newton takes losing harder than most.
 
In some past Carolina defeats, he has sat distraught at his locker still in his uniform for more than 30 minutes after the conclusion of the game. There are times it has taken him more than an hour before addressing the news media.
 
Because this was the Super Bowl, Newton was forced into the interview room a little sooner than normal.
 
At one point, his attention appeared to drift to listening to Broncos players who were celebrating and talking about their win on the other side of the interview room.
 
Rivera suggested in the future Newton might need more time before addressing the media to get his emotions in check.
 
“There are a lot of young people out there looking at who we are, and we are role models for them,” Rivera said. “I think again we know who he is and he does take it hard. Quite honestly, if he is going to take it hard, as a public service, we should avoid having him talk right away. People take losses, not just football losses, but personal losses different ways. Time is probably the best thing.”
 
Teammates rallied behind Newton Tuesday.
 
They said they knew how badly he wanted to win and how hard he took losing.
 
“He’s a competitor just like everybody else,” fullback Mike Tolbert said. “He’s not happy at all about what happened. I’m not happy about what happened. I think everyone on our team is not happy, so why should we be all smiles after? I can’t expect anybody to be laughing and joking and ecstatic about losing a football game.”
 
Panthers General Manager Dave Gettleman refused to criticize his franchise quarterback for the way he acted after the game.
 
“I want players that hate to lose,” Gettleman said. “I want players that I know when the game is over they are crawling into the locker room and they need help getting their gear off and they are going to need time getting into the shower. I want the buses to be late to the airport if we’re traveling. We all handle defeat differently.”
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QuispNQuake Active Indicator LED Icon 8 OP 
~ 8 years ago   Feb 9, '16 5:17pm  
"Quite honestly, if he is going to take it hard, as a public service, we should avoid having him talk right away."
 
Is Newton in the pros or not??? How much does he get paid again???
 
How many guys WISH they could have played in his place last Sunday??
 
I think we have a Prima Donna on our hands.
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tntrecycling Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 8 years ago   Feb 9, '16 5:23pm  
I don't understand what all the hype is.
I remember Dale Earnhardt walking away from cameras and question many times. For 20 years about his not winning the Biggest race of all Daytona 500.
 
One game and everyone has downed this man.
 
So he walk out better than saying some thing that he would of regretted later.
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QuispNQuake Active Indicator LED Icon 8 OP 
~ 8 years ago   Feb 9, '16 6:14pm  
For 20 years about his not winning the Biggest race of all Daytona 500.
 
@tntrecycling : The whole world doesn't tune in to the Daytona 500. The Indy 500, yes. The year What's His Name drank orange juice instead of milk at the victory stand, the whole joint blew up and he had to apologize and retract.
 
This is way different than the Daytona 500.
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tntrecycling Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 8 years ago   Feb 9, '16 6:19pm  
@QuispNQuake Maybe from your view point. I didn't watch Newton walk off the stage. I didn't watch The Bronco`s get the trophy. My view point. One man so what. There are many that watch the 500 at Daytona.
Same thing its a sport winners and losers.
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ChefKevin Active Indicator LED Icon 17
~ 8 years ago   Feb 9, '16 7:08pm  
Since Marshawn Lynch is retiring, maybe Cam Newton can hire him as his media response coach Emoticon

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Whit Active Indicator LED Icon 7
~ 8 years ago   Feb 9, '16 7:08pm  
Professionals are humble.
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QuispNQuake Active Indicator LED Icon 8 OP 
~ 8 years ago   Feb 9, '16 7:44pm  
Bill Belichick is the only other person who talks to the media the way Cam Newton did on Sunday. And Belichick shows more class by never walking away like that.
 
And I despise Belichick. But I have a LOT more respect for him now after Sunday!
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AverageJoe Active Indicator LED Icon 12
~ 8 years ago   Feb 9, '16 8:19pm  
BB always talks that way. Patriots All Access, they have him do his "Bellistrator" and he is monotone/stone-faced. And his audience is Pats fans!
 
I joke and say that my boss looks like him, only my boss smiles and laughs.
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VonsterPeo Active Indicator LED Icon 8
~ 8 years ago   Feb 10, '16 7:47am  
I remember Dale Earnhardt walking away from cameras and question many times.

@tntrecycling : Did he catch any **** for it?
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tntrecycling Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 8 years ago   Feb 10, '16 8:14am  
Not that I know of. I think if you would of said a word about it your mouth would be swollen for a while. Man true stand up man.
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