Lets Take A Look Back At The Huddles Opinion On Drafting Cam Before The Draft

[Snake]

I agree PhillyB this board and fanbase is 20 times more progressive and cultured today than it was even a year ago. Cam Newton taught a lot of our fans a valuable lesson about bias and stereotyping/pre-judging. Its a lot more accepting and sensitive to black QBs now that we have one of our own that we're firmly behind.

What did it teach you about your racism? Now that's the big question.

[Panthro]

Wanted Newton as well. Huddle was lol from Jan-April.

High 5ed KT right after the Newton pick...then went on to witness, statistically, the greatest rookie QB performance in NFL History. The wins come next.

[Jackofalltrades]

A. I'm not a mod anymore, I resigned about 6 months ago.

B. Player opinions have absolutely nothing to do with modding, nor should they.

C. As soon as Cam was drafted I was on his bandwagon and have stated, ad nauseum, that I was wrong.

D. I think Dareus would have been a great pick, he obviously wouldn't have had the franchise turning effect Cam has had, but would D likely would have been much better.

E. Congrats, you win the Internet.

[King Taharqa]

Im not a racist. I dont support white supremacy, im not hoping we never have white qbs or up here acting too good for white athletes or questioning white peoples intelligence based on another failed white person. But this saga did teach me a lot of our fanbase are simple country folk who hold on to Jim Crow/old south caste system as a means of survival and self preservation in todays society. The people who prejudged Cam do that to everybody. Its their culture that the foolishly think everyone subscribes too. Misery loves company I guess.

Anyone that would like to read up on the mentality of the folks who were biased against Cam and black QBs in general, check out a great book called Tackling Jim Crow: Racial Segregation In Pro Football written by historian/professor Alan Levy. It examines the origins of the emphatic obsessive "all our QBs must be white" mentality that used to dominate the Panthers and other NFL fanbases.

[jarhead]

What the hell does it have to do with racism?

[pOpCoRnPoPpEr]

Nothing at all put people will any

What the hell does it have to do with racism?

Nothing at all but some people will find any excuse to fan the flames....."white hispanic."

[MadHatter]

Im not a racist. I dont support white supremacy, im not hoping we never have white qbs or up here acting too good for white athletes or questioning white peoples intelligence based on another failed white person. But this saga did teach me a lot of our fanbase are simple country folk who hold on to Jim Crow/old south caste system as a means of survival and self preservation in todays society. The people who prejudged Cam do that to everybody. Its their culture that the foolishly think everyone subscribes too. Misery loves company I guess.

Anyone that would like to read up on the mentality of the folks who were biased against Cam and black QBs in general, check out a great book called Tackling Jim Crow: Racial Segregation In Pro Football written by historian/professor Alan Levy. It examines the origins of the emphatic obsessive "all our QBs must be white" mentality that used to dominate the Panthers and other NFL fanbases.

Hate to burst your bubble KT, but you are still proving yourself to be one of the most racist people on this board.

You kept saying that people did not want Cam and would not support Cam because he was black. Yet, the huddle masses have once again shown you that Cam's race had nothing to do with anything. If we were all the racists that you claim, we would continue to NOT support Cam because he is black.

Some of us questioned the Cam pick becuase of what he did not exhibit in college....even though it has been proven that he did not do those things because of the scheme and not because of his ability. We have and do support Cam as our QB...not a white QB or a black QB...but the Panthers QB.

You have shown that you were really one of a few who even cared about the color of his skin....we cared about what he could deliver on the field.

Run along now.

[NCstoner420]

I didn't want Newton, I wanted Dareus, Peterson, or Green. The second I found out Newton was going to be the pick I backed him 100%. Like I've said before, it was a magical moment when he first walked onto the field at their first practice. I still do not think he will be an accurate quarterback but we will see as seasons pass.

[HeatCheck]

A good friend o mine was beyond annoying when this new qb showed up at auburn and couldnt stop talking about him. Even before the season started he was like..."dude, you have to watch our team this yr...this guy newton is badass". So i can say he was on my radar and after watching much of the later season games...i thought holy cow the panthers have a shot at this guy...well lets just say it was luck that he fell to us.

Yeah he was a top recruit out of HS, many college football fans knew about him before Auburn. He kinda got lost in JuCo but many knew the capabilities he had from his HS recruitment and his glimpse at UF.

[NCstoner420]

Yeah he was a top recruit out of HS, many college football fans knew about him before Aubrun. He kinda got lost in JuCo but many knew the capabilities he had from his HS recruitment and his glimpse at UF.

I remember seeing him from time to time at Florida and I would say get this joke out and put The Golden Calf of Bristol back in, boy was I wrong about who he turned out to be.

[HeatCheck]

He would normally go in when UF was up big and there was no reason to put The Golden Calf of Bristol back in. But the one play that I will always remember from his days at UF was running over that Tennessee defender where you saw the power and fearlessness from him.

[TheRed]

Cam Newton took all that trash as motivation and sent out a shockwave throughout sports, i supported him from the beginning and i am ecstatic he is on our team. From the media to the scouts to the gms to the fans, all that venomous negativity and downright ignorance that was sent his way was quite astounding to say the least.

I'm ready for the next stage though. This is rear view material and the future is too bright. Cam Newton has arrived and everyone knows it, and as long as you are a fan along for the ride just enjoy it. It's only the beginning people, put your shades on so the rays don't blind you.

[fieryprophet]

Guys, can we stop with the stupid "racist" talk? I'm whiter than an albino Irish baby and I was hoping we would draft Cam. That doesn't make me a non-racist, my trying to treat all people equally and respectfully regardless of their race does.

It's funny to go back and look at people's strong opinions of Cam, but realistically he will always have strong opinions surrounding him, because he's just completely a unique freak of nature. To me, the most impressive attribute about Cam isn't his ridiculously athletic physique, its his all-consuming approach to the game of football. He wants to be the greatest, and that is incredibly rare, and makes for a lot of controversy because it challenges not only racial perceptions, but pre-conceived notions of what a quarterback can actually accomplish. Before Cam, who knew that your quarterback could be your best option in the red zone? Who knew the read option could work in the NFL? Who knew a rookie could have back-to-back 400 yard games in his first two starts? Who knew he could lead the greatest offensive turnaround in NFL history?

A lot of what Cam has achieved NO ONE could have foreseen, and while it makes the ones who didn't want him look bad, that's mostly because of how insane his accomplishments were. If any of us had tried to predict this kind of season before the year we would have looked like blind idealists who played too much Madden. Now, even his strongest supporters look like dupes because they didn't predict half of what he accomplished.

I wanted us to draft Cam, but I was fully prepared for at least two seasons of mediocrity while he adjusted to the NFL. How could I know the biggest adjustment our team had to make was for the defense to step up to the level of the league's most explosive offense?

[PhillyB]

i used to think KT was racist as hell

after watching america's reaction to cam newton's drafting i've realized he's been dead on with a whole lot of his points all along. i think his mistake has been labeling detractors as overtly racist when the reality is that underlying prejudices are far more widespread and much more subtle than outspoken racism, simply because an individual can be prejudiced without realizing it.