Cam Newton disappointed me

[the butch]

How in the hell did this get to 13 pages?

[Peppers90 NC]

13 minutes ago, tiger7_88 said:

I'm getting the definite vibe that, instead of a learning opportunity being presented to the kids, that they got the "its ok honey, some people are just assholes" from ol' Dad.

yea i see a lot of the Tennessee mom in this one.

[Clicheking]

So this is what it feels like to be entitled....

[uncfan888]

well, this is an attention whoring thread if i've ever seen one..

[PghPanther]

Being famous is a prison and sometimes a person just needs to pretend it isn't for a while you happened to encounter him during one of those moments....

.............obviously your daughters are too young now to understand this........ but when they get older you need to be explain that to them when they understand that better.

I would hate the curse of fame.........I'd be so paranoid that there would be a lone nut somewhere after me or my family and would feel like I live in a shell. Most famous people I know (and I've worked in TV and have met many) get tired of the constant "being on" about "how great the world sees them".

Here is a tip for anyone on that............if you ever run into someone famous don't talk about what they are famous for......everyone does that and they get tired of it.

Find out what they have a passion for that few if any know and talk about that subject, they become very pedestrian at that point because they see you as a peer not an admirer.

Perfect example............Jay Leno's hero is the great F1 racing driver of the 50's and early 60's Sterling Moss........Once in a meeting with Jay we got to talking about cars......racing and I happened to be a big admirer of Sir Sterling and his accomplishments and got on that subject with Jay and he went on like a kid about his time meeting Sterling and such.

I

[tiger7_88]

1 minute ago, colty77 said:

The big TV camera was not on him.  No big audience to play for.  No PR points to be had.

St. Jude's appreciates your contribution, troll.

[csx]

Just now, colty77 said:

 

go away horse face

[Panthers_Lover]

8 hours ago, Montsta said:

Cmon man I don't think OP thinks the world revolves around his daughters. 

He was hoping Cam would take a pic with his kids, he didn't, and naturally they (and by extension, he too) are dissapointed. 

I don't think he's making a big deal of it just by sharing an experience on a message board. He certainly isn't saying fug cam or fug the panthers based on one experience. 

But he kinda is ... just by posting this ... in my opinion.

[Montsta]

12 minutes ago, Panthers_Lover said:

But he kinda is ... just by posting this ... in my opinion.

Well I didn't get that vibe at all. He shared an experience and said he was dissapointed, which is understandable. 

I don't think for a second that means OP and family will be rooting for the Panthers or Cam any less this Sunday, or any Sundays moving forward. 

[Cary Kollins]

I can understand being disappointed by that interaction. It's probably a natural feeling after being so excited just to see the Panthers in public.

 

But you have got to understand these are real people, with real lives and real limits. You have no idea what kind of mindset Cam may have been in at that point.

Like others have said, when you are a certain level of celebrity you have to draw a line somewhere. 

[bleys]

Cam stopped to take a pic w my sister uptown a few months ago on his way to work..   Philly and them coasting on their hover boards.. 

 

[dave-o]

Reminds me of a story about Del Curry....  He played in my Conference in HS up in Virginia so we used to see him play...  Fast forward years later when I met him at a golf course in Charlotte where I have lived since 1985....  The Hornets were huge !!!!!  Long story short....  He was a complete pecker head....  Very disappointed at the time....  Mugsy was always cool as hell...  They both played the course I worked at all the time....

[PghPanther]

Here’s a change of pace for this thread………

Funny story about an autograph in a public place.

I grew up in the Northeast and did a lot of promotional work in short track auto racing through there and the Midwest a few decades ago.

There was a very famous Michigan short track driver by the name of Joy Fair (yes the name Joy and he was about at 6’4” and 250 lbs. so nobody brother him about that name). Anyway Joy was a great short track race drive and a legend in the Midwest among local and regional race fans but not really recognized by the unsuspecting general public for the most part.

One night after a race at Toledo Speedway (near Michigan state line from Detroit) a lot of fans headed over to the nearby local McDonald’s to get something to eat.

In comes this big tall guy with a Detroit Tigers baseball hat on…….

Pretty soon a crowd of race fans from the track gathers around him taking pictures and getting autographs and such and after a few minutes it subsides and he’s just standing there with a friend waiting for someone I guess.
It’s Joy of course and this is a few years after he retired from racing (get this he raced for 6 decades!)…..

So…. I’m in the line waiting to order food with a friend of mine and my friend says to me…..”Hey isn’t that Joy Fair over there?”…………..”Yup sure is”, I replied….

So when it comes time for us to order our food the guy at the counter taking our order says to us……….”Who is that guy over there everyone is making a fuss about?’

Now remember he had a Detroit Tigers hat on………so I said to the counter guy…….uhh…..that’s Al Kaline the great Tiger homerun hitter……..and the counter guy said wow!!! I have to get his autograph!

Well we get our food and stop over to see Joy for a second and I told him what I just told the counter guy about him. (Joy is a great joker so he laughed about that and said if the kid comes over to get his autograph he will play along with the gag and sign it Al Kaline).

Sure enough we sit down to eat about 20 ft away from where Joy is standing and then this counter kid asks his manager to go on break and off he heads over towards Joy’s direct with pen and paper in hand…………we can see Joy talking and smiling with him and then gives the kid an autograph and shakes his hand …

After the kid walks away……….Joy looks over at us, then points at his Tigers hat and gives us a big wink of the eye and we start laughing our butts off  ……….Joy laughs back at us and waves goodbye and heads out the restaurant………….meanwhile the kid is showing his autograph to the other coworkers and we can’t stop laughing………

To this day I wonder is that kid ever knew………….LOL!

 

[GhostP.]

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