
Very seldom do you see an owner put a stipulation on a star player but it appears that Jerry Richardson has taken that leap. Word is that Richardson has told Cam Newton not to get all tatted up and piercing crazy. Richardson say's he needs Cam to stay as marketable as possible to remain the face of the franchise.
My question is why even ask the man or present anything to him like that? Cam to my knowledge doesn't have any tattoos. So why would an owner even present that to him. I know immediately someone will throw the race card out but the stigma is that when athletes get money they get millions of expressions tattooed on their bodies.
Quite frankly though when I think of tattoos, I think of Chris "Birdman" Anderson or any one on the Denver Nuggets basketball team at the moment.
The fact is that, over the years, Richardson has drafted and signed plenty of players who have tattoos and piercings, including tight end Jeremy Shockey. Apparently, Richardson is willing to tolerate those things when it comes to men who won’t become the face of the franchise. For someone like Newton, whom Richardson said has “athletic ability unlike anything that I have seen in quite a few years,” Richardson presumably wants him to do nothing that would potentially alienate the mainstream paying customers.
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