Cam Newton has hilarious excuse for not being on an NFL team

Former NFL quarterback Cam Newton has a rather bizarre excuse as to why he believes that he's not been able to find a new home - his hair, which he's grown into dreadlocks. 

"It’s been hindered. And I’m not changin’," he said on Josina Anderson's "Undefined" podcast. 

"People have hinted towards to say like, ‘Cam, we want you to go back to the 2015 clean-cut Cam. But that was a different me. Right now, where I’m at, it’s about embracing who I am."

Newton implied that teams were implying to him that he should get a haircut: 

"There was hints toward it," he said, via Bleacher Report. "And I gained a lot of great counsel from a lot of people. And the thing that is always mentioned is, 'Yo, Cam, you scarin' people the way you look.' 

"And I would say, 'Yo, like I'm not gonna name names, but there's other quarterbacks that's in the league that don't look like me, but they got long hair. They don't scare them, do they?' So, we can go tit for tat, tat for tit with it. But I would just turn and nod to that and say, 'That's not the reason why I'm not in the NFL.'"

Newton won the NFL MVP Award in 2015 with the Carolina Panthers and has earned three Pro-Bowl appearances, but went 30-36 following his most recent Pro-Bowl nomination.

Of course, Newton was released from the New England Patriots in 2021 and found his way back to the Carolina Panthers, where he failed to complete even 55% of his passes and won zero games in five attempts.