Unlike any other time period before, fan heckling has been simply out of control towards athletes, most notably in the NBA.
NFL players also have to hear fans saying some of the most despicable things you could hear coming from a human being’s mouth. The athletes are always held to a higher standard and are expected to just take it and not react back to it.
Athletes responding back is happening more and more as the insults get worse.
Cam Newton has come under fire for numerous reasons during his career and for the most part, he’s been able to take heckling and criticism.
The free-agent QB talked about the line he draws on where fans take it too far with him.
“What I’m not cool with is when a fan takes it a little too far. What’s too far, you may ask? When you say something demonizing or disrespectful that you won’t normally say to that person in public when you’re at the grocery store, when you’re at the coffee shop, when you’re at a restaurant, when you’re at these places, where we are normal then, and there should be the level of understanding of normalcy when you’re at these games,” Newton said in a video published Thursday.
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Newton himself has drawn the spotlight over his comments after getting heckled for becoming a free agent and responded to the teenager that he was “rich.”
Aside from that, he sparked major backlash last month with comments about women.
“My parents had been together for 36, 37 years now, and it’s a beautiful thing. I grew up in a three-parent household – my mom, my father and my grandmother. And I knew what a woman was. Not a bad b—-. A woman,” Newton said, adding that to him a “bad b—-” was a person who “looked the part” but didn’t “act the part.”
“And it’s a lot of women who are bad b—-es and I say ‘b—-es’ in a way not to degrade a woman but just to go off the aesthetic of what they deem as a ‘boss chick.’ A woman for me is handling your own but knowing how to cater to a man’s needs. I think a lot of times when you get that aesthetic of like ‘I’m a boss b—-, I’m a this, I’m a that,’ no baby. But you can’t cook. You don’t know when to be quiet. You don’t know how to allow a man to lead.”
Newton played for the Carolina Panthers last season. He’s currently a free agent.
