Cam Newton thinks female reporter talking routes is 'funny'

Love how social media has turned into this platform where so many can step up and decry someone who says or does something contrary to the default position of most reasonable people in society.

Report the comment, allowing folks to know who's the jackass so they can consider their responses and reactions. No real need for "OMGery" and sermonizing from media folks to demonstrate how fair-minded and enlightened they are relative to their perceptions of Cam Newtom, Trump voters or whomever. Saw one sportswriter who just had to take it further, as in "females aren't just as good at this as males, they're usually better." What the hell is that? PC prostration.

 

My problem is Cam didn't say anything offensive. It was an awkward, mis-worded attempt at a compliment. Had he said "it's unusual for me to hear a woman talk about route trees because the women I've been around don't have that understanding of the game" people would have been shocked, mainly because 26 year olds don't talk like that.
He wasn't dismissive. He was impressed. But because he said "funny" instead of "unusual" he's getting taken to the woodshed.

 

He's pissed at all women now because as predicted the kid has become his mom's favorite player.

 

Naw, we just have the best bullhorn and write the most elequently about it.

Journalist outrage ain't got shit on sports fan outrage. (We might lead this thing in sanctimony)

 

He was not impressed.

Cam Newton’s sexist comment to Observer reporter wasn’t one bit funny

After the news conference, Rodrigue wanted to find Newton and talk about what he said. She did catch up with him briefly. The conversation, according to Rodrigue, was not taped but went something like this:

She asked the quarterback if he really didn’t think a female could understand routes.

Newton said she wasn’t really seeing specific routes when watching the game, she was just seeing if somebody was open. She argued that he didn’t know what she saw nor how hard she had studied football, and that maybe the two of them needed to have a deeper conversation.

Newton said that maybe he should have said it was funny to hear “reporters” talk about routes and that, if she actually did know about them, then she knew more than most reporters. Then he gestured toward the locker room, still filled with her colleagues.
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Cam Newton is an arrogant ass with evident disdain for most people (and I suspect himself, which is why he likes putting down others and pouting) and, in trying on casual sexism, he was trying to be what he thought was funny and imperious at the same time.

He failed.

 

Unlikely an awkward compliment, then.

 

So do we white journalists band together and change our Twitter avatar to Jourdan Rodrigue's photo in support or has that ship sailed?

 

This is a deeply condescending and dismissive version of "impressed." It's very much part of the problem.

 

In a weird way, this is true, because there are far more shitty male sportswriters who additionally never get the development/story opportunity to growth and challenge themselves.

SEs are more willing to take flyers on women sportswriters, especially at lower levels of the business, where it's often wholly unexpected that women will apply. (I'm fine with this, by the way.)

 

I'll offer that situations like this are exactly why many coaches and players wrap themselves in the safety of one-word answers and clichés. And then y'all will complain about that.

People say stupid shit. We've seen plenty of it here, in fact.

 

And while I don't mean it as a defense of Cam Newton, I'm confident he has a fairly diminishing opinion of almost every sportswriter, male or female, who asks him a question like that.

He's quite immature. Everybody saw that and knew that at the Super Bowl, but of course some ass-kissing journalists had to jump to his defense. And then somehow it became "well, Peyton Manning's worse."