{"id":440152,"date":"2025-12-11T13:23:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/440152\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T13:23:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:23:21","slug":"cam-newton-reacts-to-colts-signing-of-philip-rivers-its-almost-like-a-slap-to-my-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/440152\/","title":{"rendered":"Cam Newton reacts to Colts’ signing of Philip Rivers: ‘It’s almost like a slap to my face’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A literal grandpa got a call from an NFL team before Cam Newton did.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the Indianapolis Colts<\/a> signed quarterback Philip Rivers to their practice squad. With the team facing a handful of injuries at the position heading into Week 15, the now-unretired 44-year-old is back in the league and even has a chance to start on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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Rivers’ situation is an interesting one to run across the Carolina Panthers<\/a>‘ all-time leading passer, who hasn’t definitively ruled out a return of his own. So, his co-host Omari “Peggy” Collins did just that on today’s episode<\/a> of 4th & 1 with Cam Newton.<\/p>\n

Here was Newton’s reaction . . .<\/p>\n

Newton, despite recently taking up featured roles in front of the camera for ESPN and BET, has yet to officially retire from football.<\/p>\n

The 36-year-old Newton hasn’t played since 2021, a season after Rivers’ took his last snap on an NFL field.<\/p>\n

Follow\u00a0@ThePanthersWire<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter\/X for more Panthers content.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Panthers Wire: Cam Newton says Colts’ signing of Philip Rivers is a slap to his face<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A literal grandpa got a call from an NFL team before Cam Newton did. On Wednesday, the Indianapolis…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":440153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[203203,8996,9002,1232,203204,56018,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-440152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cam-newton","9":"tag-carolina-panthers","10":"tag-indianapolis-colts","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-omari-quotpeggyquot-collins","13":"tag-philip-rivers","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115701154354345883","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}