The return of Asshole of the Week and it’s back to the NFL and the Super Bowl. I’m giving it to Cam Newton, the epitome of a sore loser, not to mention being a classless winner as well. Poor Cammie wasn’t able to do any dabbin’ on Sunday or pull his Superman act. The only thing I will give him credit for is giving the football to a kid after scoring a touchdown this season. I remember a quote from Bear Bryant about scoring a touchdown. “Act like you’ve been there before.” Remember Jerry Rice, the best wide receiver to ever play the game? When he scored he would hand the ball to the referee or drop the ball in the end zone. No touchdown dance. No celebration.
I remember a few years back when Carolina wasn’t doing well. When Newton came off the field after making a bad play he would sit on the bench by himself with a towel over his head and pout. That’s how he acted at his post game press conference only this time he wore a hoodie and then got up and left. He later said that a good loser was a loser. No, a sore loser is a loser. There is a way to lose with class. It’s called sportsmanship. I can guarantee Peyton Manning would not have acted like poor widdle Cammie if the Broncos has lost. I was rooting for the Broncos because I wanted Peyton to get another ring and I wanted Cammie to lose. Bur fear not Cammie. You may have lost the Super Bowl but you did win the AOTW Award.
Then there was his little “gotta be different” during the National Anthem:
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U R right Rick. He’s nuthin’ but a full of himself black Qback. He thinks that he invented the game.
This pretty much says it all, especially, about Cam: https://youtu.be/4Ej3K02CEk4
Defense wins.
And there was so much of the predictable media hype about this Super Bowl being about Black vs. White, Youth vs. Old Age, Swag vs. Lame, etc. So many things went off-script; this turned out to be a sweet victory indeed. It exposed the yawning gulf between crass and class which is so prevalent in the culture today.
I was at the Packers/Bears game where there was a joint tribute to Brett Favre and Bart Starr at Lambeau Field. The ovation for Bart Starr was at least twice as loud and twice as long as it was for Mr. Favre.
Agree with your choice but another good candidate would have been Beyonce giving the middle finger to most everyone who made her filthy rich. Not to mention the police who escorted her through the traffic so this self important cow didn’t have to put up with the traffic like the mere mortals.
Usually I dont want the half time shows because it is lousy and although I had the sound off cause I didn’t want to hear the racket they call “music” it saw her shaking her fat ass cause I left the TV on.
Deservedly so! Thanks Denny for filling the void. As I stated in the comments a few days ago, there were, “so many deserving and so little time” that I just couldn’t choose.
Newton was high on my list for the award for adding serial Ass-Hole to his resume as a cheat, liar and thief. Dat boy done has he’self a career in poli-ticks. He may be the Dim-O’s new “rising star when he playin’ days be ovah wid such a resume.
I say that he was on the list that I just couldn’t seem to cull because it was another list with so many others deserving. I had Debbie Wasser-Her-Name – Slutz way up on the list for doing a Monica on Shrill-Liar-Ly. The usual group of perennial contenders were there too – Obama, Shrill-Liar-Ly, Commie Bernie and too many R-I-N-O’s of course.
There were also many others that quickly came to mind; There was the NFL for it’s allowing the injecting of Black B-S to pollute the halftime show, there was Bi-atch-say for exposing her fat ass to millions.
Yeah, I gotta’ agree with your decision. I just couldn’t get myself to say, “and the winner is…..”
Best part of the game. Down less than a touchdown, with close to 4 minutes left, Von Miller causes Cam to fumble, Cam moves towards the ball but wait, he jumps back and away from it.
He personally lost the game right there. Not to say he would have gotten the ball but you have to at least try.
Just another example of his personality disorder.
Yes he did leap back from the fumbled ball. He’s a wimp afraid to get hit. He and many other modern times QB’s, including Manning, couldn’t have played 15-20 years ago when a QB was allowed to be hit.
As a lifelong Bronco fan, ask me how sweet this one was. Every time Miller manhandled Newton, I rose higher & higher to a new level of happiness. Refusing to fall on his fumble will haunt him and his post game interview was the biggest cherry on top I could have imagined.
I have to give John Elway his football props, I didn’t think Kube had it in him to win it all, especially in his first year.
I’d like to thank Manning for 3 great years playing in Denver. Now, I hope Peyton goes out on top.
After Denver got manhandled by Seattle two years ago Elway realized that while offense sells tickets, defense wins championships and in two years he built the best defense in the NFL. Atlanta has spent five years trying to build a defense and due to incompetent drafting (Peria Jerry? Jamal Anderson? Really?) and incompetent free agent signings (Ray Edwards, Osi Umenyiora, both washed up defensive ends) they kept getting worse and this was with a defensive coach. So they replaced the coach and kept the GM. As for the fumble, QBs are taught not to get into a fumble pile.
Jerry Rice wasn’t the only one. Some of us are old enough to remember Barry Sanders, who didn’t see any reason to taunt the guys who couldn’t catch him, and “Bambi” Alworth who was the scourge of defensive backs in the AFL but didn’t disparage his opponents. Jim Brown might’ve been the baddest MoFo to play the game but he always got up from the bottom of the pile in a slow easy manner so you’d never be able to tell if he was hurt or had scored the game winner.
I ain’t sayin’ that it wasn’t a breath of fresh air when Billy “White Shoes” Johnson did a little Charleston in the end zone after runnin’ back kicks. He was exciting enough on those plays that we all got a grin out of it.
I got no use for Cam if he’s gonna behave like Mr. Special Snowflake, any more than I have for TO and his antics, or Mark Gastineau’s “sack dance” that looked like a spastic on speed. I was glad to read of the guys who, when they sacked Johnny Football, stood over him and mocked his money gesture.
If Newton wants to be treated as a human being, act like one and show your human side by lettin’ the public see you as we do Steph Curry, who ain’t afraid be “Dad” in public.
Amen.
I agree with all the guys above. However, After watching abut half of the game, I believe that Newton deliberately threw the game, especially in the fourth quarter when he just stood back and watched Denver recover a fumble. I have to wonder how much Newton had on Denver to win.
The reason he didn’t try to recover the fumble was it has been drilled into pro quarterbacks not to do that for fear of injuries. Better to let the other team recover the fumble instead of getting a season or career ending injury.
That’s true, BUT, this was the Super Bowl and he is 6’5″ 250 lbs. He runs a lot and doesn’t always slide. They were near the end zone and the game was on the line.
He should have gone for it.
Coaches have lived in fear of QBs gettin’ hurt since ol’ scramblin’ Fran spent his whole career in Minnesota runnin’ for his life. Say what you want about the sissies that live in San Franfreako, but Joe Montana came back a few weeks after back surgery and Steve Young could’ve played a few more years and probably won more Super Bowls if’n he hadn’t had his bell rung too many times. Some guys were always willing to put their heads down and ram a tackler if it meant gettin’ a few more yards.
Don’t get me wrong, now, as I wouldn’t want to be the guy goin’ up against 300 pounders. Then again, Cam Newton will probably make more in an average year than I will in my whole life.
Right on about Jerry Rice and Barry Sanders. Calvin Johnson is another great player with humility. The great ones don’t need to showboat because it’s obvious to everyone how great they are. Cam the crybaby needs to grow up. He proved that he’s not ready to be a Champion.