{"id":850533,"date":"2026-04-03T02:52:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T02:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/850533\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T02:52:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T02:52:19","slug":"cam-newton-upset-that-the-panthers-have-erased-him-from-their-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/850533\/","title":{"rendered":"Cam Newton upset that the Panthers have erased him from their history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 2, 2026, 4:00 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Cam Newton has played a major part in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/carolina-panthers\/364\" data-autotag=\"8afac4d1-41b4-4302-b154-b45f5b48a0d2\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Carolina Panthers<\/a> history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The former Heisman winner won the league MVP in 2015 while also leading them to Super Bowl 50 against Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Yet despite his history with the team, Newton feels left out and forgotten by the Panthers, as if the team has erased him from its history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The team is going to Germany next year and has invited legends Steve Smith, Thomas Davis, and Luke Keighley, but not Newton, and he was disappointed by the snub.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">When asked if he\u2019d go if invited, Newton replied: \u201cI guess we will never know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:4|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Newton went into further detail on his 4&amp;1 podcast.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Newton tells the story of holding a 7-on-7 tournament at the Panthers facility and not seeing his picture up anywhere in the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Newton said that his son brought it to his attention.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cSo as a man, when you have to explain to your son, daddy, where\u2019s your picture? At this particular point and time, the question was, &#8221; Oh, we don\u2019t know if Cam retired yet, newsflash, I\u2019m never going to retire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cI know I\u2019ve played my last piece of football; it don\u2019t matter to me to officially retire,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Newton also suggested to the team that they have a panel with him interviewing former Panthers, but according to him, they turned down because he said he was told he had to mend some fences he didn\u2019t know needed to be mended.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cDid it hurt my feelings? Yeah, it did, he said. \u201cLike, damn, bro, I gave this city everything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 2, 2026, 4:00 p.m. ET Cam Newton has played a major part in the Carolina Panthers history.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[95878,235,260,2567,7,6,236,99115,99116,95882,98825,96059,98232,95897,96109,95883,97278,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-850533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-carolina","10":"tag-carolina-panthers","11":"tag-carolinapanthers","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-panthers","15":"tag-sstssportsnfltouchdown","16":"tag-sstsntouchdown","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagcam-newton","19":"tag-tagcarolina-panthers","20":"tag-tagheisman-trophy","21":"tag-tagoverall-negative","22":"tag-tagpeyton-manning","23":"tag-tagsports-news","24":"tag-tagsteve-smith-sr","25":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116338514502348736","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}