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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton doesnt know why ratings have been down in the NFL this season, but he knows what hed like to see more of: players having fun and celebrating.The reigning NFL MVP says the league has to understand that allowing players to express themselves is good for the game.I really cant talk on their ratings, Newton said Tuesday as he prepared for a Thursday night game against the Saints. But in some?way, shape, form or fashion, we are entertainers. Our influence ranks second-to-none at this time of the year.Few, if any, in the league expressed himself more last season than Newton, whose Dab after touchdown runs spread throughout the country. Newton brought back the Atlanta-based dance in the second quarter of Sundays loss to Kansas City after proclaiming it retired following the 2015 season.Hes not sure whether hell continue to dab the rest of the season.But Newton would like the league to allow more celebrating.Youre asking a person who celebrates, he said with a smile.Newton grew up in Atlanta watching cornerback Deion Prime Time Sanders, known for high-stepping and showboating after big plays.Newton watched the Monday night game between the New York Giants and Cincinnati Bengals just to see what wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. would do after a touchdown.Beckham did his version of Michael Jacksons Thriller. Newton began softly singing the lyrics to the song as he described it.Football is hard, man, Newton said. I cant stress it enough. The way my body feels right now is not going to be the same way it feels come Thursday. Now Im sore, but still knowing that Thursday I gotta give everything.And if scoring a touchdown, getting a sack, getting a win ... let alone all of that bottled up and staying here until 10 at night and here at 6 in the morning, all of that energy that you put, spending time away from your family, all of that bottled up and being able to do exactly what you planned and foresaw yourself doing, you are owed something.Newton, whose foundation sponsors a 7-on-7 football tournament, says he sees his influence and the influence of other NFL players throughout the year talking to kids.So when you come out in blue cleats or white cleats, gold cleats, whatever cleats ... When you come out and do a certain dance, people are watching, Newton said. And when you nuke that, I wouldnt say the ratings may get affected. I dont know what you can determine to that.[But] Im an advocate of youth football, and every time I look on social media or wherever, and I see kids from where I grew up in Atlanta wearing your cleats to doing the whatever, its just mind-boggling. And you have to understand your worth to giving back to your community, as well as the league has to understand its entertaining for people to see that.Newton recalled how he was influenced by the University of Miami football team as a kid in terms of wanting to wear a bandanna as he wears now.I wasnt from Miami, but they didnt know how important they were for my overall growth for the love of football, Newton said. I am pretty sure there are people that I dont know that I wish I could talk to.Its just football brings a lot of people together. I saw one commercial the NFL put together where it says football is family -- and it really is. 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Its a good thing that we won in Chicago; I didnt want to keep going on having never won against them.Hopefully it removes the mystique a little. But while we know that it was a great performance by us, I think they did have an off day as well.There were a lot of uncharacteristic mistakes from them in Chicago and we know it wont be the same this week. Its going to be a completely different challenge this weekend.I think how we did so well in the last game was pressure: we built it through getting pressure off their lineout, getting up off their line, making them knock the ball on and putting that little bit of doubt in their head.I think that doubt and thaat seed is sown now.dddddddddddd They know were a good team and we can get in their face. If they start sticking passes and getting the offloads theyre a different machine. But hopefully were in the back of their heads now.One man who did shine in Chicago was Robbie Henshaw, who is fast developing the leadership drive to become a genuine Test match superstar, according to his Ireland centre partner Jared Payne.Henshaw truly came of Test match age in the Windy City and ploughed over for the fifth and decisive try at Soldier Field.Payne said: I think hes getting better and better, the way he conducts himself off the pitch now, hes become more of a leader than when he first started out.He backs himself a lot more now. Hes got the physical attributes to become a superstar, and the more confidence he gets in himself off the pitch and the more he starts to lead people its going to come out more in his game, and I think youre slowly starting to see that.Hopefully that continues: because when youve got someone playing that well beside you its pretty easy almost to just jump on a free ride off him. ' ' '