Cam Newton told you before the Super Bowl, but the message got lost in a thousand hot takes and will get lost in a thousand more hot takes.
Newton told you, “the only difference is we’re winning” at a press conference a week before the Super Bowl. That got lost in all the easy-to-draw lines about race, show-boating, body language and all those other things that made it so easy to tear down the NFL MVP after a 24-10 loss to the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl 50 on Sunday.
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The only difference now is Carolina lost.