Cam Newton was a bad loser but is there such thing as a good one?

IT can’t be often that American football kindles thoughts of Shakespeare but watching last weekend’s Super Bowl prompted the unavoidable feeling that it was all, well, much ado about nothing.
Cam Newton was a bad loser but is there such thing as a good one?

That is coming from a fan of the sport, so who knows how underwhelmed the majority of the floating voters in the sprawling worldwide audience were.

With defences dominating, there was little in the way of the whizz and bangs that are habitually spliced into highlight reels. There was actually only a handful of minutes remaining before the Denver Broncos scored the only offensive touchdown of the game: not much there for those of who sacrificed half a night’s sleep.

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