Cam Newton ‘offered’ $1 million if he can pass lie detector (UPDATE II: They’ll do interviews)
OK Cam, while you're up at the dais, somebody has a proposition for you. (Brant Sanderlin/AJC)
(Originally published April 25, 2011, at 12:01 p.m.)
(UPDATE II at 2 p.m., Tuesday, April 26: Received an email from the folk(s) at CamNewtonLieDetector.com, who claim this is a legitimate offer. They declined an interview with me but, according to the email, will be conducting two interviews this week with ESPN and Yahoo! Sports. Details below.)
Maybe you believe Cam Newton and think everybody should just leave him and Auburn alone.
Maybe you don’t believe Cam Newton and are convinced he and possibly Auburn got away with something last season.
But are you willing to put up $1 million to prove your suspicions? Well, somebody is – or at least claims to. There is now a website called CamNewtonLieDetector.com. The author of the website proposes, “An Open Challenge To Cam Newton.” Newton will be paid $1 million if he can pass the, “4 Questions College Football Fans Want Answered” (that’s a headline on the site).
Before going into more detail, it’s worth noting that I have attempted to contact the site through both the phone number and email address listed and have yet to hear back. I don’t really have an attorney so I couldn’t do that, “Have my guy call your guy thing.”
The phone number listed (302-284-6213) comes up as an unpublished number in Felton, Delaware, in a reverse white pages search. I’m not aware of an SEC fan base in Felton, Delaware, maybe there’s a secret pocket group of Alabama, Georgia or Florida fans there. (They’re everywhere!)
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UPDATE I: Somebody from the website returned an email to me. They sent the following note, but left it unsigned.
Jeff, we’ll be happy to do an interview but are in discussions with a
major national outlet for first interview. Our offer is real. We are guys
on the West Coast in our 40s who love college sports and are sickened by
the integrity issues permeating the system. We are in discussions to do a
similar concept with college basketball. Please contact the Cam camp as
the ball is in their court. We’ll be in touch after this first interview.
UPDATE II: Here’s today’s email, detailing the website’s planned interviews. The author also has a special message for Auburn fans.
Media Requests for camnewtonliedetector.com
info@camnewtonliedetector.com
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Thank you for your interest, but we will only be doing two media requests: ESPN Radio Southern California (Thursday 8:40) and Yahoo Sports “Dr Saturday.”
If we proceed with a college basketball concept, we will let you know.
To the Auburn fans sending “energized” emails, I’ll personally never forget the atmosphere of your stadium that August day several years ago and the warmth and southern hospitality of the Auburn people. I’d like to keep that memory of Auburn foremost in my mind. The vastly unequal, unjust and highly political system permeating college athletics to the benefit of some programs and the detriment of others is our concern.
So what do you think?
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Meanwhile, here’s the challenge, directly from the website:
Attention Cam, pass a professionally administered lie detector test
by answering “No” to these 4 questions..and $1,000,000 is yours.1. Prior to signing with Auburn, were you aware your father was “shopping” you to Mississippi State or any other school?
2. Did you tell Dan or Meghan Mullen that you signed with Auburn because of the money because you truly believed Auburn had paid for your commitment?
3. Did anyone on the Auburn coaching staff/athletic department instruct you how to answer questions from the NCAA by lying or avoiding the truth?
4. Did you or your family ever receive any impermissible benefits from Auburn?
The TRUTH Matters
Cam, have your attorney contact our attorney to work out the mutually agreed upon details: Email:info@camnewtonliedetector.com. Call: 302-284-6213.
Is this legit? I dunno. Probably not. Besides, Newton may be the first pick in the NFL draft, so I really don’t think he needs the $1 million, even if he thought he could pass. Wouldn’t shock me though if ol’ Cecil “Huggy Bear” Newton tried to figure out some way to make a buck off this.
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510 comments Add your comment
Dunwoody Mom
April 25th, 2011
3:27 pm
Before September 1st? Gosh, darn, I thought “3 weeks – guaranteed”….
Cam's Dad
April 25th, 2011
3:28 pm
First I wasnt able to ride on the front of the bus…now I cant make money off my son….whats a crooked POS like me to do?
Jim Tressel
April 25th, 2011
3:28 pm
Please focus on $cam Newton and leave me alone. I knew nothing, my Dad was the one involved.
Najeh Davenpoop
April 25th, 2011
3:28 pm
“Ryan Mallett being a drug addict (if that were true) was not rewarded with honors and trophies. Arkansas did not benefit from his drug use, nor temp him with drugs.”
That’s irrelevant to my point. The point is that there is a website dedicated to finding out the “truth” about Cam Newton getting paid market value for his labor — which, regardless of how much NCAA Kool-Aid you want to drink, is all Cam Newton did. In what alternate universe does that reflect more poorly on your university or make you a worse draft prospect than being a drug addict?
Hey, Henry?
April 25th, 2011
3:28 pm
awwwwww… bitter much?
Still stings, doesn’t it?
Poor, poor widdle man!
War Eagle!!!
Truth
April 25th, 2011
3:29 pm
Auburn the most corrupt football program in America. First the Cam Newton deal, then the paying players out of illegal casinos, then the 4 players that admitted that auburn was and is paying player…where does it stop?
The only response from auburn fans is that Alabama is out to get us, AJC is biased, Cam (only 6 credited hours at au) is innocent because no proof, HBO is out to get us, NY times is targeting au, etc,…When do they ever say “hey we should take a hard look at our program since it makes the school(which is a good one)look like a laughing stock?
Cam's Dad
April 25th, 2011
3:29 pm
BTW anyone seen my kids laptop…he said he lost it at UF…something about a knock on the door and a window or something……sheesh….kids today!
Najeh Davenpoop
April 25th, 2011
3:29 pm
What I find hilarious about this whole thing is that the alleged laptop incident gets about 1/10th the attention that this pay for play “scandal” receives, evem though the laptop thing would be, you know, an actual CRIME. Some of your priorities are so messed up it’s unbelievable.
Dunwoody Mom
April 25th, 2011
3:30 pm
@Truth…..Now, tell me again, which major university in Alabama is currently on probation. I’ll even make it easy for you. It’s not Auburn…..
Cam Newton
April 25th, 2011
3:30 pm
I will take the test if it’s done in Auburn by an Auburn attorney
real friends
April 25th, 2011
3:30 pm
Cam your friends in the media want to show you some love. You just stay put and keep your mouth close . They are just out to hurt you Bank on it !!!
AltamahaDawg
April 25th, 2011
3:31 pm
Anybody else picturing tennis skirts now?
BG
April 25th, 2011
3:31 pm
Cam took the money and everybody in college football knows it.
Cowboy Mouth
April 25th, 2011
3:31 pm
@Dunwoody mi1f, how can you breathe through the sand you got your head buried in?
I don’t care one way or the other if Cam got paid. More power to him. He is a great athlete, had a great year and probably has a bright future in the NFL, if he can learn to speak French as Gruden pointed out…
gdawginkalamazoo
April 25th, 2011
3:31 pm
Beast, yeah never thought of Penn State but that would be another good program for Urban. The problem with the Tressel thing is that OSU isn’t under any institutional penalties because Tressel withheld the information from his superiors (hey they loved that part about it). Nice classy move on his part but a hammer is heading his way from the NCAA (they were NOT happy about it). He made the NCAA look like fools after actually lying to their face regarding the Sugar Bowl. The NCAA cannot have coaches blantantly lying about this type of stuff.
Monte
April 25th, 2011
3:32 pm
@ Jim Tressel….that is funny….Hi WDE….LOL!
Beast from the East
April 25th, 2011
3:32 pm
“Now, tell me again, which major university in Alabama is currently on probation”
Major university in Alabama? There was one?
WDE
April 25th, 2011
3:33 pm
Joey if the police have the evidence they don’t need her permission to charge him. And if she publicly accused a man of rape then shouldn’t she have to defend her claim. Ben will pay for that accusation the rest of his life whether he did it or not. And if he did do it he needs to be in jail and not the NFL.
real friends
April 25th, 2011
3:35 pm
Cam #1 draft choice= cash web site=BS
DC
April 25th, 2011
3:35 pm
404 is working up another post to copy and paste from…..
AltamahaDawg
April 25th, 2011
3:37 pm
The alternative universe where the rule pertaining to maintaining your status as an amateur athlete orbit around the NCAA.
BamaBean
April 25th, 2011
3:37 pm
Cam and Auburn are 100% guilty. He would never take that test and probably would not understand it. I hope the F.B.I. puts Can and his Daddy in jail.
Dunwoody Mom
April 25th, 2011
3:37 pm
@DC – I’m sure. That same wording can be found on every bammer blog that exists.
Monte
April 25th, 2011
3:37 pm
WDE in rape cases, yes the DA does need the victim to testify. Without her testimony there is no case! This is something that is very hard for woman, and they are grilled by Defense lawyers, law enforcement and the press as if, regardless of how they may dress or act, their behavior does not warrant another person to abuse them.
Saban's wife
April 25th, 2011
3:38 pm
Have ya’ll seen little Nicky’s Statue? Hard as bronze………………..and that was a long time ago
JB
April 25th, 2011
3:39 pm
The NCAA needs a regional office for AU & Bama.
Interpretation of BG
April 25th, 2011
3:39 pm
BG
April 25th, 2011
3:31 pm
Cam took the money and everybody in college football knows it.
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Interpretation:
“Oh, please, let this be so! It will redeem me! It will make my OWN school’s program supperior! It will mean that my school has never done anything wrong! It will mean that my team never really lost on the field at all. No one beat us! We were robbed! PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE let this be true!!! I’m begging you! My whole self-worth depends on someone ELSE being guilty of something!”
(and now I’m going back into my mommy’s bedroom, curling into a fetal postion and sucking my thumb until Cam Newton is proven to be guilty)
Tossed Salad
April 25th, 2011
3:41 pm
Got news for all you “let it go” folk: it will never die. Never. If the NCAA never publishes any conclusions on the matter, it will never die. If the NCAA publishes findings, in favor of Cam or otherwise, it will never die. You need to accept this.
Monte
April 25th, 2011
3:42 pm
BamaBean….WOW, do you have some issues! It is not that serious, FBI…really, the FBI come on! There are thousands of NCAA athletes that receive payouts, and many of them without the student asking for it. If anyone is to be jailed it should be those that give the hand shake! To be jailed over this, come on really, really and what purpose would that serve? Zero! The FBI needs to focus on more serious issue like US citizens involved in terrorism, i.e. the KKK!
WDE
April 25th, 2011
3:45 pm
Monte you think its easy for a man to be in Ben’s shoes accused of raping someone and then be denied a day in court and a chance to clear his name.If Ben was a black man I bet you would be screaming how unfair that was wouldn’t you…
Tech Tard
April 25th, 2011
3:45 pm
Ignorant Auburn Fans:
Yes, that is yellow rain.
truth serum
April 25th, 2011
3:46 pm
Auburn is quite possibly the most rogue program of all time. SMU was bad but their time only lasted a short while. Auburn has consistently been shattering all NCAA rules for the last 50+ years.
WDE
April 25th, 2011
3:47 pm
And Monte we are done, I just had to step back and realize I’m falling into a racist’s trap. Have a great life.
JB
April 25th, 2011
3:48 pm
WDE……………..Just like not agreeing with Obama and being labeled, But what do they say when I would vote for Herman Cain ( who’s black by the way) any day of the week . It ain’t color folks, it’s policy.
Dunwoody Mom
April 25th, 2011
3:48 pm
Auburn has consistently been shattering all NCAA rules for the last 50+ years.
Oh, my goodness….the drama…the drama….50 years?
You know that Alabama has been on probation more often in the last 50 years than Auburn, right?
Cam Newton
April 25th, 2011
3:48 pm
I never got caught cheating 3 times at Florida!
truth serum
April 25th, 2011
3:49 pm
Dunwoody Mom,
I’m not an Alabama fan.
JB
April 25th, 2011
3:50 pm
Youtube the Pat Dye /Ramsey sting tape of Dye offering to arrange thousands of dollars. Priceless…Keep in mind HE’S ON THE TEAM !!!!!!! WAR EAGLE
Moron Dawgs
April 25th, 2011
3:50 pm
Herschel took the money, not Cam ……
And, Roethlisberger is the lowest level of scum …… one man’s opinion ….. (… and why has this low life drifted into this blog????)
AltamahaDawg
April 25th, 2011
3:50 pm
I’d keep playing. I don’t think the heavy stuff is going to come down for quite a while.
Sara Lee
April 25th, 2011
3:51 pm
Also while we are at it, why don’t we ask Isiah Crowell about his arrest on a breeak-in last year. And amazingly how local UGA boosters asked the homeowner not to persue any charges. $1 million for Isiah to pass that one.
UGA, not Auburn, is the school that should get the death penalty? Their crimes go all the way back to Vince Dooley.
Not to mention the hundreds of UGA athletes who never got past remedial studies, which is nothing more than elementary school reading, writing, and arithmetic.
When will Mark Richt stop recruiting his illiterate low class felons, bozos, and goons?
Dunwoody Mom
April 25th, 2011
3:51 pm
So? I was just making a point. And please give me the information that shows Auburn has been “shattering” the rules for 50+ years.
Oh, wait…never mind…this was fun for a while…but now it’s old…
JB
April 25th, 2011
3:52 pm
Herschel was 35 years ago………..Moron…………Come on Techie, give us something pre Jimmy Carter….LOL
JB
April 25th, 2011
3:53 pm
Sara Lee……………….Heat a bun……………you’re fishing now……………Auburn vs Georgia when it comes to cheating…………..LMAO…….
404
April 25th, 2011
3:54 pm
Again, the ONLY question that needs to be asked is:
“Pastor Newton…..FROM WHOM…..did you receive the $60,000 that was used to
pay the repairs to your “church” that were MANDATED by the City of Newnan, GA?”
Einsteindawg
April 25th, 2011
3:55 pm
Who cares! He was a great college QB, but will never make it in the pros unless they move the hashmarks out. Some owner will give him mega millions simply because there is a Heath Schuler, Ryan Leaf, Jamarcus Russell, Tim Tebow, etc. every year. Just my opinion.
JB
April 25th, 2011
3:56 pm
404…………….You know he would say a miracle from above…..
JB
April 25th, 2011
3:57 pm
Einsteindawg………..We can agree on that…..He won it on the field….Not the back of a casino.
Goose
April 25th, 2011
3:58 pm
I see a lot of jealous SEC fans commenting.
gdawginkalamazoo
April 25th, 2011
3:58 pm
Einsteindawg, no doubt Cam had a season to that went down as one of the best ever for a college athlete. I wish there wasn’t all this talk surrounding him and Auburn. Cecil really screwed it up for a lot of people including Cam.