ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — After helping put the clamps on Cam Newton in the Super Bowl, Chris Harris Jr. helped send Carolina's quarterback over the edge by explaining how the Denver Broncos had befuddled the league's MVP exactly as they had planned.
Unbeknownst to Harris, Newton could hear him because only a thick curtain separated the teams' postgame interviews, which were amplified by loud speakers.
Newton didn't sit there to listen to the newly crowned champions crowing about how they had throttled the favored Panthers, who finished 17-2. He stormed off.
Harris said he's been asked repeatedly this offseason if he'd have said anything different had he known Newton was within earshot.