In 2011, the Carolina Panthers were in rebuilding mode. The franchise decided to draft Cam Newton, who was coming off of a national championship-winning season at Auburn.

Jimmy Clausen was already on the Panthers' roster when Newton joined the team. Clausen wore the No. 2 jersey during the 2010 season, which is the number Newton became accustomed to having during his college football days.

In a recent YouTube video, Newtown revealed that Clausen attempted to charge $1 million for the coveted jersey number. 

"I didn't even want No. 1," Newton said when asked how he secured his NFL jersey number. "Man Jimmy Clausen… we cool now. [He was] like… ‘If you want it you gotta pay for it.’" Newton said in reference to the number.

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"I was like, 'Cool, how much?’" Newton continued. "I said, ‘A million dollars bro?’ People don't even make a million dollars in a lifetime."

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Clausen finished his rookie season with 1,558 passing yards and three touchdowns against nine interceptions. His underwhelming first-year performance certainly did not leave the franchise feeling confident that he was the answer for the quarterback position, which prompted the team to draft Newton.

Carolina finished the 2010 season with a 2-14 record.

Newton also said he did not take Clausen's initial offer seriously.

"So I thought he was playing." Newton noted, but he said eventually Clausen called him back with a different figure.

"'OK bro I talked to my people. We'll do it for $750,000.'" Newton said. "I said, ‘Oh you for real?’ I hung that phone up… true story hung that phone up. I called the equipment manager. I said, 'I'm rocking with No. 1.' I made an oath to myself I said, ‘That'll be the last time Jimmy Clausen will ever be heard of in Carolina.'"

Newton wore the No. 2 during his stint at Auburn and during his time at Blinn College. He was the 2010 Heisman Trophy winner and went on to earn 2015 NFL MVP honors. He was also a three-time Pro Bowler. 

Clausen ended up staying with the Panthers after Newton was drafted and played in the preseason. He did not play in the 2012 regular season and spent the majority of the 2013 campaign on injured reserved. 

He eventually moved on to the Chicago Bears, appearing in four games in 2014.

A single Democratic lawmaker joined most House Republicans to advance a censure resolution against Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., on Tuesday.

Six Republican lawmakers voted to table the resolution, which would have effectively killed it – Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., Ken Buck, R-Colo., John Duarte, R-Calif., Mike Garcia, R-Calif., Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., and Tom McClintock, R-Calif.

It was not immediately clear which Democratic lawmaker voted with Republicans to move the censure forward. The actual vote on censuring Tlaib is expected to now occur on Wednesday.

Tlaib, clad in a traditional Palestinian garment called a keffiyeh, sat in the front row of the House chamber between fellow progressive Reps. Cori Bush, D-Mo., and Summer Lee, D-Pa. 

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She has been under fire by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle over her response to the war between Israel and Hamas. Tlaib, the only Palestinian-American in Congress, has been vocal about the Israeli government's killing of civilians in Gaza and has espoused phrases that even her colleagues in the House Democratic caucus deemed anti-semitic.

House Republicans introduced two different censures aimed at censuring Tlaib on Monday. 

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., introduced a modified version of her previous Tlaib censure, which failed to advance last week. Meanwhile, Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga., one of the 22 Republicans to vote against Greene's resolution, introduced his own. 

McCormick's resolution advanced on Tuesday afternoon, while Greene's is expected to have a preliminary vote later in the evening.

Democrats' bid to shield Tlaib largely failed due to having too many absences on their side of the aisle. If all members were present, Republicans could have only lost four votes to still advance the censure.