Cam Newton recently sat down with NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal for an episode of his show, @thebigpodwithshaq and spoke about kids being disrespectful to him at his football camps.
As we all know footage of Cam Newton fighting multiple people at 7 vs. 7 football camp surfaced all over the internet recently. As we previously reported, the former NFL star spoke out about the incident and apologized for his actions. “To every single Hugh school player, to every single person I’ve influenced to every single athlete, use my situation as a way to understand that in one moment; and on decision, your life could change. Just like that. I let my emotions get the best of me, and it should not have been called for. Simple.” He went on to say, “With that, I apologize to anybody affected” including the organizers, staffers.”
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Now in a new interview with Shaq, Cam was asked about why he feels like kids can talk to him any kind of way at his football camps. During the conversation, Cam Newton admitted that it’s the “access” that allows kids to act like that. “We live in a time where instead of seeing a Shaq and saying ‘oh my gosh that’s Shaq’ we see, these kids now say ‘oh that’s Shaq ima try his a** and I’m going to go viral for it’”
He went on to speak on her altercation when he got into a fight at the camp. “That’s not the first time that happened and honestly knowing my world that probably won’t be the last. People say like ‘yeah cam standing on business yeah’ but when I look at it’s like man it could’ve got ugly because when I feel triggered I react, I don’t think and that’s the issue. My whole support was kind of caught off guard. We were talking and something was said but that’s just how I rock and roll.”
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He continued, “I just have to be better and I have to use this as an example as somebody’s going to say something triggering to you and it just takes one time.”