It is a testament to the strangeness surrounding the Carolina Panthers these days that the first two questions reporters asked Cam Newton Wednesday were about Diddy possibly buying the team and then installing Colin Kaepernick to compete with Newton as Carolina’s starting quarterback.
Newton didn’t dismiss either possibility out of hand, which also says something about a pre-Christmas week that in normal circumstances would be all about a 10-4 NFL team that needs one more victory to reach the playoffs.
“I mean it was amusing, you know what I’m saying?” Newton said of Diddy’s interest, which the hip-hop and business mogul tweeted Sunday night to his 13.