Cam Newton Offers Stranger $1,500 to Swap Airplane Seats. His Plan Fails.
Jennifer Billock June 24, 2019
If you’ve ever had to fly in economy class, you know that a first class or business class seat experience is incomparable—and that’s just what NFL quarterback Cam Newton learned on a recent international flight from Paris back to Charlotte, North Carolina. He offered a huge sum of money to buy someone’s seat from them but his plan failed.
Poor Cam Newton. The Carolina Panthers quarterback recently had to suffer through an international flight from Paris to North Carolina in—gasp!—an economy seat. We plebes may know what it’s like, but celebrities aren’t often accustomed to flying in the cramped airspace we all otherwise get stuck with on most flights. It wasn’t for lack of trying though; Newton gave a valiant effort at attempting to acquire an exit row seat with extra legroom on his flight.
Newton is a big guy. Standing tall at 6 feet 5 inches (195 cm) and 245 pounds (111 kg), it’s no wonder he wanted a better seat with more legroom on his flight back from Paris’ Men’s Fashion Week. In a video shared on Twitter by user @ElisaraEdwards (a former football player for Colorado State), the football player can be seen offering to buy a passenger’s exit row seat from them. According to the tweet, he offered a cool $1,500 for the seat—and no one agreed to it. He walked back to his own seat with a rather stunned (or embarrassed?) smile on his face.
According to CNN, the passenger Newton tried to buy the seat from added insult to injury by asking how tall Newton is before turning down the offer.
So this happened… @CameronNewton offered a man $1500 cash for extra leg room on a 10hr flight and the man said “No??” #GiveFranceTheNFL pic.twitter.com/xQohV9Ngef
— Eli Edwards (@ElisaraEdwards) June 22, 2019
Newton’s flight in economy class was born out of necessity. The player missed his first flight which he had a business seat on and was stuck flying home to Charlotte through Dallas in economy instead.
[Featured Image: Twitter/ @ElisaraEdwards]
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correct, he was trying to get extra leg room in Economy. I would have taken his $1,500 and given up a FEW inches of leg room. We live in a weird world
I have no idea who this Cam person is, but I wouldn't have taken the $1,500 either. 10 hour flight in Y? It's going to take a lot more than that to get me to give up an exit row for 10 hrs. Whoever makes this guy's travel arrangements needs to learn about routing. CDG's a big airport. There had to be a way to re-route the guy.
And the little birdie said, "Cheep, cheep, cheep." I wonder what was the urgency? The Panthers are not playing this time of year. If his wife was nine months pregnant in Charlotte, he should not have gone to Paris in the first place.
He should have offered the $1500 cash and more $$$ bank transfer if he wanted it bad enough.
He isnt trying to buy a first class seat, he is trying to switch with someone who has a bulk head seat. Watch the video