Super Bowl 50 Thread

[Big Bid'Ness]

Anyone else think that game was somewhat boring? Broncos defense came out on top, they were all over Cam Newton. Peyton barely did anything. 

 
Nah i enjoyed the hell out of it lol.

 

[Big Bid'Ness]

 
Cam Newton didn't play well in Carolina's Super Bowl 50 loss to the Denver Broncos, so it wasn't a surprise when he offered one-word answers to the media before getting up and walking off early.
 
Most figured it was just Newton in a bad mood.
 
But now we know the real reason why Cam bailed: He heard Denver's Chris Harris explain close by that their gameplan was to make Carolina prove it could throw the football (which obviously the Panthers did not do well on Sunday).
 
Here's what Harris said: "Load the box, force y'all to throw the ball. Can you throw the football? That was the gameplan."

https://twitter.com/bmweezy13/status/696704493514334208
 
The video

 

[JJ94]

Pretty odd to see even the bigger, reputable outlets loading up the hyperbole for what happened.
 
Kinda funny that the Chris Harris stuff has only just come to light though.
 
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/696670375367872513

 

[JJ94]

This is probably the simplest analysis of it I've seen throughout the day.
 
Newton's year has been so pimped that people evidently couldn't wait for the guard to drop.
 
Superman to 13-year-old in a night when he's never been either.
 
https://twitter.com/AndrewBrandt/status/696720722161463296

 

[JJ94]

Meh, I'm off to watch the NBA instead for a few months.
 
I hear JJ Reddick is good.

 

[Pugz]

Meh, I'm off to watch the NBA instead for a few months.
 
I hear JJ Reddick is good.

he's the goodest

 

[JJ94]

he's the goodest

 
Watching JJ Reddick highlights in my pants on my next day off. I need to see it.
 
Are the Charlotte Hornets good? (I guess that'd be the logical starting place)

 

[bosoxlover12]

Redick*
 
 
and no, not really lol

 

[Giantmetfan07]

Pretty odd to see even the bigger, reputable outlets loading up the hyperbole for what happened.
 
Kinda funny that the Chris Harris stuff has only just come to light though.
 
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/696670375367872513

 
But he did act like a 13 year old. Pouted, barely answered, walked away. 

 

[Fuhgeddaboudit]

 
Nah i enjoyed the hell out of it lol.

 
Well, heh, no damn shit!

 

[Big Bid'Ness]

 
This bandwagon fuck here................. predicted the Panthers was going to win it all and look at him now.

 

[JJ94]

 
But he did act like a 13 year old. Pouted, barely answered, walked away. 

 
He was reserved, no doubt, and it wasn't ideal. But apart from the fact he just lost the Superbowl, we don't really know why he walked off.
 
His departure seemed to coincide perfectly with Chris Harris finishing his sentence. Add the heckling (intentional or not) on top of the vanilla questions, I don't think it's a case of Newton failing his "moment of truth" as the article states.
 
I don't doubt it'd be better if he'd sat through it and given the robot answers back, but this just seems way overblown. 

 

[JJ94]

Redick*
 
 
and no, not really lol

 
,

 

[Giantmetfan07]

The reason it's being overblown is because his on the field attitude was front and center stage for the last two weeks. When you celebrate every single first down, when you're in pre-game warm ups with your gold MVP cleats and you call yourself Superman, then you better man the fuck up when you lose. That is generally what people expect. If you don't man up, if you act like that, then you're going to get ripped apart. 

 

[JJ94]

http://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/super-bowl-50-peyton-manning-cam-newton-extremely-humble-denver-broncos-carolina-panthers-020816
 

"Sure I tell ya, Cam couldn't have been nicer to me. He was extremely humble. He congratulated me, wished me the best. I told him just congratulations on his outstanding season and just what a great future he has ahead of him. He'll be back in that game, I can promise ya. So, I've been on that side of it. It is tough -- it is not an easy pill to swallow. But he was very nice to me and I really appreciated that."

 
I understand the point, but I don't know that it's a case of not manning up post-game.
 
I'll take sportsmanship towards the competition over giving token one liners to the media.

 

[CameronCrazy06]

Wait why does being able to hear Harris matter. Do I not get it

 

[Big Bid'Ness]

Wait why does being able to hear Harris matter. Do I not get it

 
Because he pretty much was listening to what Harris was saying instead of focusing on his PC interview. IDK why the hell they were so close in the first place.

 

[CameronCrazy06]

So he just had to leave because he could hear him?

 

[elcheato]

I think the argument there is that he was shaken about hearing that the Broncos game plan was to make him throw the ball to beat them, and he couldn't do it. It's a dumb excuse, but I think that's what is meant. 

 

[Big Bid'Ness]

 
Cam Newton doesn't regret how he handled his postgame press conference after the Panthers 24-10 loss to the Broncos in Super Bowl 50.
The quarterback talked with the media on Tuesday morning for the first time since walking out of his postgame interview session less than three minutes into it. Newton reportedly talked for 7-8 minutes on Tuesday and had plenty to say, but he didn't apologize for what happened after the game.
 
"Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser," Newton said, via Joe Person. "I don't have to conform to anybody's wants for me. I'm not that guy. This is a great league with or without me. I am my own person."
 
Newton was also asked about why he didn't dive for the football following Von Miller's strip-sack late in a one-score game. The quarterback said he didn't want to risk an injury due to where he was positioned.

SMH at the last part