The NFL has never seen anything like Cam Newton at the quarterback position, and he is ruffling some dusty old feathers on his path to greatness.

Cam likes to dance, or dab if you may. Cam likes to celebrate and take selfies with rappers like Future and Jeezy. Cam doesn't back down from conversations about his race, and above all, Cam doesn't apologize for hurting people's feelings. For people who prefer to live under a rock, his sheer existence can be unsettling.

It would be easy for him to duck questions or offer "no comment." Newton doesn't have to do that. His team is winning, and he doesn't have to make excuses for all the people that still choose to misunderstand him.

In a press conference leading up to Super Bowl week, Newton was asked why he is more of a lightning rod for criticism than other athletes. He met it head on.

"I think this is a trick question...but I'm going to answer it truthfully," Newton said. "I've said it since day one. I'm an African-American quarterback, that may scare a lot of people because they haven't seen anything that they can compare me to."

Black quarterbacks aren't as rare in our modern NFL climate as they were in decades before, but they still receive some comments or jabs that their white counterparts simply don't have to put up with. For example, do white quarterbacks have to answer thinly veiled questions about their race on a weekly basis? Didn't think so. A lot of people think Newton is strictly a running quarterback, where in fact he is a mobile quarterback that can still make all the throws of a pocket passer. Race is only part of the equation with Newton though.

He's right. He does scare people. Not because he's black though. It's because he's 6'5" and 245 lbs of pure playmaking. You're damn right he scares the hell out of defenses. Add in his million dollar smile and a childlike joy for winning, and you get a perfect breeding atmosphere for jealousy.

Deep down inside, most people wish they could be Cam Newton. Some of them just happen to be haters.

Over the course of a game, he makes plays no other player in the league can make, if you look at the body of work as a whole. On one play, he can hurl a pass that whistles to its destination anywhere on the field. The next time you look, he rambles thirty something yards through a few defenders and finishes the run with a Superman dive over the line. Not to mention, he can throw a deep ball that even Ted Ginn Jr. has to catch up to. Does it make it so bad that he shows off a bit? I would too if I made plays like that.

When Newton says people have nothing to compare him to, he is absolutely correct. He has a different skill set and personality than anybody to ever play the position, and he has the chance to become the new face of the league if his team establishes winning ways.

New faces can sometimes be unnerving to the masses. They're used to taking their coffee a certain way, driving the same routes to work and expecting the same brand of football to survive an evolving generation of athletes.

Football fans certainly aren't going to stop watching the game, so they better get used to seeing Cam Newton. He's not going anywhere, and he's not shy to dab on you.

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