ESPN's First Take on Newton

[panthersphan]

I don't understand how they give Cam so much_shit for doing his TD move when Coleen Kaepernick (not a misspell) kisses his f'n muscles and Rogders does the wrestling championship belt...which are both just as, if not more, obnoxious than the superman.

Plus, I'm pretty sure his younger brother told him to do it...so who cares? If anything, he's being a good brother right?: )

I don't know, it's just stupid they single him out when A LOT of players in the NFL do it.

Superman on Cam..I love it. Smitty does his thing too, and if he didn't, he wouldn't be the same player.

[GoApps70]

Does anyone else feel like Richardson or Shula or Rivera told Cam to hand a football to a kid when we scored.

Seems like everyone knows about it because if someone else scores they hand the ball to Cam to do it.

 

[SauceBoss]

maturation, maturing, mature

 

how many time did they say those words? I mean I agree, but it seems like they are trying to use it as an insult. I guess not all players can come into the league all growed up like Wilson...

I think the media uses the word "maturation" to cover their ass of previous opinions. HE WAS HORRIBLE, BUT HE'S GETTING BETTER WITH AGE, rather than admitting he's been good along and they don't have to eat ass crow.

[CPF4LIFE]

Does anyone else feel like Richardson or Shula or Rivera told Cam to hand a football to a kid when we scored.

Seems like everyone knows about it because if someone else scores they hand the ball to Cam to do it.

 

Shula told him to do it. There was an article on it a while back.

[jarhead]

I'm too young to remember. Did the media/fans hate Deion Sanders when he was dancing and wearing doo rags? As a child I loved Deion and I bet Cam did to. You see the same showmanship. The same child like excitement. Some people are in a box and anything outside the box irritates them to no end.

 

 

I think you nailed it. I was reading where Cam's jersey was tops among young fans even fans that are not n this area. He provides entertainment for most young people and may rub  old farts the wrong way. Personally I think it is a good thing to be a role model for young people as long as he walks the walk off the field. So far he has done that.

[lightsout]

Stephen A. wrapped up how the media treats Cam: "yeah, you're doing good things and saying the right things now. So what? Go out there and keep winning."


Look at RGIII coverage. Look at Wilson coverage. Luck coverage. They slurp those guys so much. When it's Cam being as good/better than them, it's "so what?". 

This is why I seriously do not give a poo about the media opinion on our team in any aspect.

[SpeedOFLight]

I remember when Cam first did the superman in his rookie season (btw he did it in college). The young fans loved it. I remember the camera panning across the stadium showing fans young and old do the superman thing. People forget that football is suppose to be fun. You have millioniare athletes getting paid to play a game and I think they should celebrate. I could careless if the media doesn't like him, and I am sure he feels the same. The media didn't care too much for Ali, Kobe and at first MJ. They are trying to fit Cam into a mold but unfortunately , they can't. He is a new type of QB. You can't force him to be like Brees, Manning, Brady, etc. Let him create his own niche and place in history. This whole maturity thing is getting old though. I am glad the players and coaches are over talking about it. Let's just keep winning and everything will work out in itself.

[Donald LaFell]

I don't think he's maturing as much as they are having their original ignorant assumptions proven wrong. He has matured, but he was never as immature as they said.

[OneBadCat]

I don't think he's maturing as much as they are having their original ignorant assumptions proven wrong. He has matured, but he was never as immature as they said.

 

Exactly. They just don't want to admit they were wrong about him.

[Evengelion]

I find it really funny how some people in the media are so upset when cam does his superman ...yet when Aaron Rodgers does his belt celebration...noone say a thing!

 

#reeksracism

 

I believe they think when Cam does it he's really rubbing it in being that he's so athletic gifted and when Rodger does it it's more humorous since he's not so gifted athletically. Plus, Cam gets the opportunity to do it so often while Rodgers is few and far between. Their thinking is that super freaks like Cam, Calvin, Lebron, Jordan, Randy Moss, etc. should be humble and not rub it in. Yea, I know, it's pathetic but true.

 

Speaking of which, Ray Lewis was just on Mike&Mike giving some love to Cam. If I want anybody on Cam's side in the media it would be Ray because he's real and respected. I can't imagine Ray saying anything crazy just for hits like a lot of analyst do. In fact, I have to admit, the whole NFL Gameday crew is real. Guys like Keyshawn, Jackson, Carter and of course, Lewis.

[TheRed]

I think you nailed it. I was reading where Cam's jersey was tops among young fans even fans that are not n this area. He provides entertainment for most young people and may rub  old farts the wrong way. Personally I think it is a good thing to be a role model for young people as long as he walks the walk off the field. So far he has done that.

 

The only "old farts" he rubs the wrong way are the old white men who think it's still 1960. Fug that.

[rainwater]

I believe they think when Cam does it he's really rubbing it in being that he's so athletic gifted and when Rodger does it it's more humorous since he's not so gifted athletically. 

Aaron Rodgers is one of the most athletic QBs in the league.  We all know the real reason he doesn't take crap for it and Cam does.

[CRA]

Aaron Rodgers is one of the most athletic QBs in the league.  We all know the real reason he doesn't take crap for it and Cam does.

 

wins and he wasn't one of the most media scrutinized players entering the league in the history of the sport......

 

the 2nd part IMO is what ultimately put Newton in a lose/lose from the get go

[PhillyB]

Maurice Halbwachs was one of the first sociologists to treat history as a transitive process, noting that memory is more than a cognitive faculty for retaining and recalling the past: “memory does not exist in relation to the individual self only . . . but is a profoundly social process that is also produced and maintained by social groups . . . and shaped by shifting spatial and temporal contexts.”In this same vein Michel-Rolph Trouillot treats history as a process in which knowledge is continually remade and repositioned in relation to new truths and memories endowed with meaning and authority in shifting temporal and political orders.

 

Particular narratives of an event/person/place are imbued with authority by power structures which endorse them; in this sense, as Halbwachs and Trouillot believed, historical memory - and the public perception and belief about Event/Person/Place X - is a negotiated process. Trouillot argues that studying a body of knowledge that constitutes what we refer to as history “reveals more about present power configurations and systems of validation than it constructs a ‘real’ representation of the past." In other words, the transient nature of narrative is a lens into those same power configurations that dictate them. It also happens to be the key to eliminating monological expression and introducing multi-modal, multi-vocal systems of information sourcing to "democratize" history, identity, and memory as they relate to public perception.

 

What I'm saying is ESPN sucks ass