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Cam Newton perhaps should check his American football contract to see if it prevents him from playing Australian football.

Newton, who is spending part of the window between offseason workouts and training camp in Australia, spent part of Tuesday practicing with the Richmond Tigers of the Australian Football League. For those of you who don’t recall ESPN before it acquired the rights to televise major American sports, the days of Tiddly Winks and tractor pulls included Australian rules football, a soccer/rugby hybrid made unique by game officials in fedoras and trench coats using abrupt hand gestures to signify things I never was able to really figure out.

“In our sport, they’re constantly putting things on you to protect you, but in this sport they’re taking things away,” Newton said, via the Herald Sun. “I’m seeing guys get prepared and all they’re wearing in essence is a tank top and a pair of boxers and going out there and giving it all they have. That makes them courageous.”

Apparently, Newton wasn’t a natural.

“It’s great to see someone so cool struggle at a sport,” Richmond defender Chris Newman joked.

While it’s unclear how physical things got for Newton at practice, anything would be enough to make the Panthers nervous, especially with every team getting a reminder over the weekend that anything can happen when players are left to their own devices.