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Cam Newton continues to speak out after receiving backlash over his recent comments.
On Monday, Newton appeared on Audacy’s V-103 Hip-Hop station in Atlanta to discuss the controversy and why he doesn’t appreciate some people in the media being outraged over his opinion on football.
Via Audacy’s V-103
“This is the thing that I don’t appreciate, is when they don’t agree with you, they try to attack your character. They try to attack you as the person. Look, I had an opinion that got blown into proportion, ‘Why is he dressing like that? Isn’t this the same person that had had a bad keeper?’ That’s not the point. The point is, that I’ve said something that if anybody can speak on that, it should be me….”
When asked why he isn’t currently on an NFL roster, Newton says that his personality scares people in the NFL because he’s not a “puppet.”
“I scare people…Because you can’t control me. I’m not a puppet. I cut them strings off a long time ago. If that would’ve been the case, they would’ve told me without telling me to, ‘Cut your dreads.’ They would’ve told me without telling me to just, ‘Be a little quiet.’
“They would’ve told me without telling me, ‘Why you making it about you – how you dress?’ But as some of us know in this space, I dress like this every day. This ain’t a facade. This ain’t a front. This is me. And if you can’t, you know, welcome me with open arms, then I’m not for you. And I think people need to understand that you are not for everybody…”
Cam went on to say that he wouldn’t be interested in playing in the NFL if they only offered him a vet minimum contract: “You can’t penny pinch me no more.”