Panthers quarterback Cam Newton’s postgame press conference and overall demeanor Sunday was the recipient of rabid media judgement following the Panthers’ Super Bowl 50 loss to the Denver Broncos.
Newton was short and languid in his responses, delivering a series of one-liners or, in some answers, one-worders. All the while, Newton sat with an expression and a stature that ventures far from the realm of stoic and pronounced.
In classic media fashion, Newton’s oral and physical presentation was picked apart. Hot take artists pounced on the opportunity to unfurl their subjective and empowering condemnation of a player to mass audiences, typecasting Newton as a “sore loser”, a “me-first player” and a “classless individual.