Cam Newton thinks female reporter talking routes is 'funny'

Death threats are a wow indeed.

Damn shame, all this. She's not remotely a racist based on those tweets. But she's also on the wrong side of a racial conversation in America that has two polarized sides battling it out on social media. She's caught in the middle.

Trump may tweet about this any day, any minute, and then it'll be really absurd.

I'm getting really tired of identity politics.

 

Former Seahawk John Moffitt: ‘Women don’t know football’

“Women don’t know football- most guys barely do. Stop coming into male spaces and demanding respect.. guys care about the substance of things not the appearence. Just because networks like a sexy sideline reporter for you to look at doesn’t mean cam is sexist for questioning the authenticity of her game knowledge- he was laughing because she was fed that question like most of her kind are. If women are so knowledgeable with a game they can’t play let them do play by play or color commentary.. but no, and women don’t even see that it’s not cam but the network that’s sexist, or just can’t lie about the truth. Women don’t really know the game- they are incapable. Yet in this society where a women can do anything a man can do and men can do nothing this is a rock and a hard place. Personally, I thought it was funny too! [sic]”

 

Not on this planet.

 

Moffitt, 27, was arrested about 4 a.m. CDT Sunday outside a Chicago nightclub after allegedly punching a man who confronted Moffitt about selling drugs inside the club, according to numerous reports. When police cuffed him, he was reportedly in possession of 10 grams of pot, 1 gram of cocaine and four pills of ecstasy.


During his time with the Seahawks, Moffitt had several run-ins at Bellevue Square, Lincoln Square and the Eastside’s other Kemper Properties, from which Moffitt was banned in early 2012. After the ban, he was arrested June 14, 2012, for allegedly urinating on a parked car near Bellevue Square mall, and was caught trespassing again that August at Lincoln Square’s Paddy Coyne’s bar.

Ex-Seahawks player John Moffitt on his drug, battery arrest: ‘Dumb mistake’

John Moffitt doesn't understand life.

 

I've had a hard time deciding the appropriate way to respond to this. I cringed at his comment and even more at his facial expression while making that comment.

That being said, if you've never been around women who like, follow, and understand sports, it's something that can definitely catch you off-guard if you're not used to it. To be honest, that was me at one point, the first time a female coworker started talking about football. This wasn't a conversation about football I was used to. She knew what she was talking about, and I could tell she was passionate about the sport. I never thought it was funny though, only different. I grew up with three older sisters, but none really paid attention to football. And I never doubted previous female coworkers before her knew enough about football to write about it, but it wasn't ever something that was talked about with them in-depth.

The Twitter thing is just stupid on all sides. And the death threats? Come on, society....

 

Society today is a little off. Social media has put opinions under a microscope and given everyone a bigger platform and stronger voice.
Throw that in with the state of the NFL and the country and divisions therein and here we be.
People overreact. And other people overreact to the overeations and we're off.

 

This was the right call. For years reporters were treated like scum by the suits. At least they are protecting her from death threats. There was a time they'd have made her cover the game. Safety first, folks, even for reporters! I'm proud of that newspaper.

 

Hasn't posted in about a week on Twitter and looks like no stories from the Panthers beat. My guess is that she'll be quietly reassigned to another beat.
A reminder: never tweet.

 

Well, no.

I love that people constantly blame Twitter for these things, like the medium forced people to say stupid shit.

 

So much this. It's not "don't ever Tweet," but rather "don't be a dumbass."

 

There are only three other beats: Hornets, NASCAR and preps. And Hornets and preps are both manned by long-timers.

 

Wow, life-size head shot on the first one. Kinda jarring