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Cam Newton Visits Al Sharpton

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Basically I am living in San Diego now. Bought tickets to the Chargers/Panthers game last season when they first came out. I was able to find out what hotel downtown the team was staying at and found out via twitter when the team landed on Friday night. I packed a bag with my Cam jersey and full size helmet to get it signed if the opportunity presented itself and headed to the hotel to get a room for the night and next day so I could potentially kick it with some of the players and get my gear autographed.

Around nine at night, I pulled my car up front to hand the keys over to the valet. As I was getting my bags and closing my trunk, I turned around to see Cam and Louis Murphy both get of a car with some shopping bags about 5 feet away from me. Before we even got into the hotel in the valet area I asked Cam if I could get a picture and that I had been a Panthers fan all my life. Louis Murphy gave some snide remark like "naw man" and Cam replied something along the lines of "Not right now, sorry".

As we entered the hotel, a bunch of 35-45 year old men swarmed Cam with duffle bags full of gear to sign in the lobby and he told them he wasn't signing tonight and probably put him in a bad mood as he had been traveling all day and probably just wanted to head to his room. I followed Cam and Louis up to the front desk to check in and get my own room for the evening. Cam looked at me and smiled and proceeded to check in. While we were all finishing up checking in, Joe Adams, Frank Alexander, Clausen, and Hardy strolled in and hung out in the lobby for little while. I took out my helmet from my bag for all of them to sign and everyone but Cam and Louis did so and they went straight to the elevator with the rest of their teammates. I got autographs from Joe Adams, Frank Alexander, Sione Fua, Ryan Kalil, DeAngelo Williams, Greg Hardy, Nate Chandler, Amini, Coach Rivera, and Byron Bell over the next 24 or so hours. Next morning I talked with Rivera for 10 minutes or so...really good guy. Was sitting a table over from Mr. Richardson and Danny Morrison but did not want to interrupt them.

All in all a great experience and glad I went to the hotel but it was disappointing to essentially have that great of an opportunity to get Cam's auto and picture and come up empty but oh well. I think the men with the duffle bags of gear ruined it. The rest of the guys could tell I was a true Panther fan because I addressed them all by name and usually talked about their college days.

I've heard from a few sources that Cam really dislikes attention off the field; not from a standpoint of feeling superior to people, but that he wants to be treated as a normal person and not a celebrity. It clashes so much with his on-field persona, but the reality is that the Cam we see on the field is really an alter-ego, and the person off the field is a bit of a shy, introspective loner.

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I've heard from a few sources that Cam really dislikes attention off the field; not from a standpoint of feeling superior to people, but that he wants to be treated as a normal person and not a celebrity. It clashes so much with his on-field persona, but the reality is that the Cam we see on the field is really an alter-ego, and the person off the field is a bit of a shy, introspective loner.

I've heard the same. That he is really shy.

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I've heard from a few sources that Cam really dislikes attention off the field; not from a standpoint of feeling superior to people, but that he wants to be treated as a normal person and not a celebrity. It clashes so much with his on-field persona, but the reality is that the Cam we see on the field is really an alter-ego, and the person off the field is a bit of a shy, introspective loner.

Cant blame him for it. I dislike talking to a lot of people at work, about work and cant imagine being swarmed to talk about work outside of work. I know there is an "it comes with the territory argument that I understand and can partially agree with but really don't think someone has to be on 24/7. In this instance it sounds like he was a gentleman and polite about the situation. Absolutely nothing wrong with that. Sounds like that Lenny Murray guy was the one that had an attitude. Not sure where he is now or who would want his autograph but oh well...

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Ha yeah I wanted to talk a little trash to him but he was a Panther at the time. I was gonna saying something along the lines of "You act like you're a superstar like Megatron or AJ Green off the field but are the opposite on the field."

Byron Bell was really personable as were both Frank Alexander and Joe Adams. I talked with them for a while just about college, the game on Sunday, and the Jordans they had on.

Greg Hardy I spoke with after the game before he got on the team bus and I explained how he dominated that game and we playfully argued over his stats. I told him I appreciate how involved he is with our fans on Twitter and he says he actually remembered a conversation we had a while back.

Rivera was the man. We talked about football, school, all sorts of things.

fug Louis Murphy!!!! LOL

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