Cam Newton receives Rookie of the Year award
This is great for Cam and the Panthers. Like most people I wasn't super excited when we drafted him but also like most people he has made me a huge fan. His acceptance speech here made me an even bigger one. Humble attitude, at least sounding very sincere, thanked God, his family, his teammates and coaches and took off.
I thought it was a very interesting contrast with Katy Perry who was presenting the award and did everything possible to attract as much attention to herself as she could during her time on stage. I actually saw a number of headlines about her on Sunday, flirting with Tebow, and none about Cam.
You have to really like someone mature enough to let their abilities speak for themselves and who remembers where they came from and all of those that have been and continue to be key to his success.
I strongly believe that there is no way to know what famous people are really like unless you have the chance to know them very personally. Many of them are very careful to culivate a specific public image that may or may not have anything to do with who they really are. Also the media love to run a story to extremes, so someone has to be either the best or the worst in the world. However I do try to take people at face value until they prove that wrong.
And so far, despite the things that happened in college, he seems like a genuinely nice and humble person. And I think he is going to be one of the best QBs to ever have played the game that we all love.
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