"The default response to success in a game of rage and combat is belligerence: an angry pose or a violent firing of the ball into the turf. And yet here is the rarest of men: one who can throw his body into a snarling pile of large humans -- all gunning for him with malicious intent -- and emerge on the other side with a radioactive grin and a first down...
there's an honest-to-god foxtail hanging from the front left pocket of his pants, he named his son Chosen and he appears to have absolutely no interest in being ordinary in anything. He stands at his postgame news conference with purple shoes one week, swirling black-and-white the next. "I don't know where he gets those shoes," says his father, Cecil Newton. "Really, I have absolutely no idea."...
Cam Newton was not JaMarcus Russell, and he was not Vince Young, but they rode shotgun, like cackling demons he was forced to exorcise. "Cam didn't want the stereotypes to stick to him, so he did everything right," Finnegan says. "All those stereotypes were gleaming right in his face, but he chose to put in the work to get rid of them."...
As a professional, he has never appeared in a police blotter. He does an amount of charity work that even a cynic must concede is impressive. In the offseason, he fulfilled a promise he made to his mother and returned to Auburn to finish a degree in sociology. It's the kind of CV that generally revs the myth-making machine. And yet after the Panthers won at Tennessee, a Nashville mother wrote a letter to The Charlotte Observer that reached Peak What-Will-We-Tell-The-Children. Addressed directly to Newton, the letter complained about "chest puffs" and "pelvic thrusts" that were so egregious she was left with no choice but to divert her 9-year-old daughter's gaze to the Titans' cheerleaders, apparently because nothing restores purity and innocence quite like half-naked women gyrating in support of professional athletes."
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/14559236/carolina-panthers-quarterback-cam-newton-unlike-qb-nfl
My arbitrary reason for supporting the Panthers today.
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