Former NFL quarterback Cam Newton apologized Friday for his role in a brawl over the weekend with an opposing group of coaches at a 7-on-7 youth football tournament in the Atlanta area.
“To every single high school player, to every single person of influence, to every single athlete, use my situation as a way to understand that in one moment, and one decision, your life can change just like that,” Newton said on his podcast. “And I let my emotions get the best of me. And it should not have been called for. And with that, I apologize to anybody affected.
“It started with words and should have ended with words. I’m disappointed in myself for letting it escalate to what it did and that’s what I’m apologetic to. … The truth of the matter is this: Me, being in my position, I should’ve never put myself in that position. That’s just the truth. That could’ve got ugly, for real.”
A short clip of Newton scuffling with three other figures went viral on social media shortly after the incident Saturday. The fight was quickly broken up by security, and Newton and the other parties were then ejected from the tournament.
Newton said that trash talk during a game involving a team from his C1N organization carried over off the football field, leading to the altercation. The game pitted the under-18 7-on-7 team from his organization, C1N, against a team from football training organization TopShelf Performance. A confrontation after the game then turned physical, with TopShelf claiming afterward Newton put his hands on its coaches first.
In the video, Newton did not throw any punches, and appeared to try to fend off some attackers. Most of the reaction on social media around the video was not overly critical of Newton, but rather amazement about how neither he nor even his trademark elaborate hat seemed to suffer much harm despite fighting off multiple attackers at once.
Still, Newton was profuse in his apology during the latest episode of his “4thand1 Show”…
Source link : https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/cam-newton-apologizes-for-role-in-viral-brawl-at-youth-football-tournament
Author :
Publish date : 2024-03-01 20:52:09
Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
