Cam Newton

     I'm really beginning to like this guy.  I've learned that whenever the press jumps all over an otherwise personable black athlete, it is usually for a pretty stupid reason.  Cam's dad is a piece of work, but so far I, for one, will be cutting Cam some slack.
   Back in the day I was a first year baseball coach for lily white Lynnhurst Park.  By default, I got all of the nerdy white kids, and all of the black kids.  Also, one big, silent Native American kid.  Well, we got that one (Rod) smiling pretty quick, and made him our number one pitcher and batted him 4th.  We won the league championship.  I mean, really, you are going to give ME all the black kids lol.  We won every game by the ten run rule.
     I feel the same way about current Vikings QB Joe Webb.  Sure, he isn't ready yet, but he will be in a season or two.  If he was white, he'd be universally acknowledged as the guy of the future.  The racism coloring this picture is that Tavaris Jackson was indeed an idiot, and the fact that he was a black QB is rubbing off on poor Mr. Webb.  Nonsense.  Still, the Vikings could quite possibly waste a draft choice on a young QB.  Thanks, we already have one.  Just get Carson Palmer to mentor Joe Webb for a couple of years, and he'll be good to go.
     I hope Cam Newton goes to a team that will show him some love, and who isn't in the NFC.