ladypanther

Wonder why he is interviewing him in NY???

Link?

Hope you are right and I think you are.

Payton seemed to speak favorably of Houston, mentioning that the have quite a few draft picks. They have 11 in 2023, including 2 1st rounders. Could take care of the Saints compensation and still leave him with the ability to draft his QB. ROUND 1ST 1ST (CLEVELAND) 2ND 3RD 3RD (CLEVELAND) 4TH 5TH 6TH 6TH (GIANTS) 6TH (VIKINGS) 6TH (SAINTS)

Interesting read. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01/16/martin-luther-king-day-facts-about/ He wasn’t actually named Martin Martin Luther King Jr. was named Michael when he was born in Atlanta on Jan. 15, 1929. His father, Martin Luther King Sr., a pastor at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta was also named Michael. However, in 1934, he took an eye-opening trip to Germany — where in 1517, a monk named Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg castle church, igniting the Protestant Reformation. King Sr., who was an early figure in the American civil rights movement, traveled back to the United States and swiftly changed his and his son’s names, when young Martin was at about 5. When he was 28, King Jr. officially revised his birth certificate. In 1957, he crossed out the name Michael and replaced it with “Martin Luther, Jr.” in black ink. He skipped grades in school and went to college at 15 A prodigy, King skipped at least two grades, graduating from Booker T. Washington High School in Atlanta before he was admitted to nearby Morehouse College, a historically Black men’s school also attended by his father and grandfather. “My days in college were very exciting ones. There was a free atmosphere at Morehouse, and it was there I had my first frank discussion on race,” he later wrote in his autobiography. When King was 19, in 1948, he finished college and enrolled at the Crozer Theological Seminary, where he was ordained as a Baptist minister. He went on to study systematic theology and earn a PhD from Boston University. King was later awarded many honorary degrees from academic institutions across the world. “Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction,” he wrote in a student newspaper in 1947. He got a C in public speaking Later known as a great orator, King once struggled with giving speeches and received a C in public speaking when he was training to become a minister. He was a prankster as a child In his youth, King had a mischievous streak. He tried to scare passersby on the street by putting his mother’s fox furs on a stick and rustling the bushes. He also tried to drive away his piano teacher by getting the stool to collapse and would sometimes destroy his older sister’s doll heads to use as baseballs. King may have improvised the ‘I have a dream’ line in his speech One of history’s most consequential speeches was delivered in less than 18 minutes during the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. But when King was drafting the speech — which drew on the Bible, the Declaration of Independence and the words of William Shakespeare — he did not include the famous refrain: “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’” According to reports, the American gospel singer Mahalia Jackson called out during the speech: “Tell them about the dream, Martin,” prompting King to deploy the now historic phrase, which he had used in previous public addresses. His family paid the medical bills for the birth of actress Julia Roberts When the Hollywood actress was born 55 years ago in Smyrna, Ga., King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, paid the hospital bills for her parents, Walter and Betty. The story came to light only last year, when Roberts confirmed the fact in an interview with television personality Gayle King (no relation). “The day you were born, who paid for the hospital bill?” King asked Roberts during HistoryTalks, a September event in D.C. hosted by the History Channel and A&E Networks. “The King family paid for my hospital bill,” Roberts replied. “My parents couldn’t pay for the hospital bill.” Roberts explained that her parents owned a theater school in Atlanta called the Actors and Writers Workshop, which they welcomed the King children to attend at a time when racial tensions remained high. “One day, Coretta Scott King called my mother and asked if her kids could be part of the school, because they were having a hard time finding a place that would accept her kids,” Roberts said. “My mom was like, ‘Sure, come on over.’ And so they just all became friends, and they helped us out of a jam.” Her revelation sparked surprise on the internet and drew praise, including from King’s youngest child, Bernice King. Another assassination attempt came a decade before his killing In 1958, King was autographing books at the Blumstein’s Department Store in Harlem when a well-dressed woman wearing glasses stepped out of the line and shouted: “Is this Martin Luther King?” King, then 29, looked up from signing copies of his memoir about the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott and answered: “Yes, it is.” The woman then pulled a letter opener with an ivory handle from her purse and attacked King, plunging a seven-inch blade into the left side of his chest, according to the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University. King was rushed to a hospital for surgery. Doctors later told him that if he had sneezed, the blade, which was lodged near his aorta, could have killed him. The attacker was Izola Ware Curry, the Black daughter of sharecroppers, and King later referred to her as a “demented woman.” He was shot dead 10 years later on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis in 1968. His mother was also assassinated Just six years later, his mother, Alberta Williams King, was also assassinated. She was killed in 1974 while playing the organ at a service at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, shot by Marcus Wayne Chenault, a young man from Ohio who claimed he had been aiming for Martin Luther King Sr., who was also at the church. King often spoke of the positive influence his mother had on his development, calling her “the best mother in the world.” In addition to the Nobel Peace Prize, he won a Grammy King won a Grammy music award posthumously in 1971. He won best spoken word recording for a speech entitled “Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam,” which he made in New York to condemn the war one year before he was killed. King was nominated for a Grammy on two previous occasions, in 1969, for his “I Have a Dream” speech, and in 1964, for his “We Shall Overcome” address.

We already know about that with the Watson chase.

Don't want either to win...but..want Brady and his merry band to lose so we don't have to hear his name anymore. Then the 'Boyz can lose next week.

Lamar Jackson wasn’t with the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday night during their AFC wild-card game against the Cincinnati Bengals. Not on the plane. Not on the bus. Not in the locker room and not on the sideline. His social media accounts during an excruciatingly competitive loss were silent, as they have been since he raised eyebrows across the league by tweeting out an injury update Thursday. The absence was noticeable. The silence is loud. And now the future for Lamar Jackson is as opaque as ever. ..... Payton said. “I just don’t like it. The team’s more important right now than you and we appreciate the information on your injury status. You’re not playing. I get it. “I don’t see this player back in Baltimore next [season],” Payton said definitively. “I think he’ll end up with another club.” Seemingly everyone in the NFL is talking about some aspect of it, titillated by the ambiguity of the situation — or simply reading into the demeanor of Baltimore head coach John Harbaugh or the eyebrow-raising comments of Ravens wideout Sammy Watkins. It’s a small circus that feels like it’s about to get a whole lot bigger and louder, and more dramatic. https://sports.yahoo.com/will-the-ravens-trade-lamar-jackson-its-not-as-unthinkable-as-it-used-to-be-084258224.html [Sammy Watkins].."Hope miraculously something happens, somebody reach out to him, whether it’s a coach or somebody, and he decides to play. But that’s a question if he’s healthy or he’s not. I don’t know. I haven’t been watching him.” Still, Watkins seems to believe that, if Jackson had his long-term contract, he’d be playing. “I think the world is ready to see Lamar back on the field, doing what he do best, and get all the stipulations and contract stuff behind him,” Watkins said. “I pray somebody talks to him like, ‘Man, just sign the deal.’ You know what I mean? And he get out there and hopefully, if . . . he’s healthy, he can just come play this Sunday. We all know that’s up to Lamar and whatever goes on. Hopefully, they get something done. The world wants to see Lamar be a Baltimore Raven for the rest of his life. . . . [T]he world wants to watch Lamar Jackson. That’s a phenom talent, a talent that you rarely come by. Things that he do on the field and things that you see, to be quite honest when he’s out there, he makes everybody play better, just to have him in that huddle. I pray that somebody reach out to him or that he’s really truly getting healthy and can play, that he wake up Thursday and be like, ‘All right, forget it. I’m playing.’ I think that would change the whole trajectory of our season.” Maybe Watkins is the only one on the team who thinks that. Or maybe he’s reflecting the mood of the locker room. Regardless, it’s probably a good idea for Watkins not to sit next to Jackson on the team plane to Cincinnati. https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2023/01/13/sammy-watkins-hopes-lamar-jackson-decides-to-play/

lol...I would never use Bayless as a source. I ignore him. Sean Payton expressed disagreement with Jackson’s decision to go public with his injury status, adding that Payton is “hearing grumblings” from the building, and that there are “teammates” who believe his “process has been slower than expected.” https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2023/01/15/mike-vick-to-lamar-jackson-put-a-brace-on-it-lets-go/

It’s fair to wonder whether Payton and his agent, Don Yee, were trying to put pressure on Dean Spanos, if, in fact, the Chargers owner is considering dumping Staley. Payton, who’s also drawn interest from Houston, Arizona and Denver, will be looking to become one of the NFL’s highest-paid coaches with an average annual salary pushing $20 million. It doesn’t hurt to have Tepper, the NFL’s second-richest owner behind the Broncos’ new ownership group, involved if you’re chasing that kind of money. https://theathletic.com/4094656/2023/01/16/panthers-coach-search-sean-payton/?source=dailyemail&campaign=601983

For clarification....I only poo'd 1 post. And that was because in that post I was referred to as "girl". (By the way, AngieLean as gone back and poo'd 2 of my posts so far. I guess he has a net win) Because I had an opinion that they did not share, a couple of posters have made derogatory and disparaging remarks about me. That is a line I decided not to tolerate. Many of us have differing opinions here. That is fine. Personal attacks are uncalled for. My opinion was actually shared by some current and former players and NFL pundits. As well as shared by other posters. Not everyone agrees, that is fine. We learn from other posters here...some of the time. No one is right all of the time. So, Frank...I am not pooing posts over Lamar Jackson.

It’s also worth noting that history is against Payton in some ways. No head coach in NFL history has won Super Bowls with two different squads. He has also been blessed with Brees, a future Hall of Fame QB, for most of his career. The Saints went 9-8 in Payton’s only season without Brees. Payton has an impressive 152-89 regular-season coaching record. He took the Saints to the playoffs nine times in his 15 years as head coach. However, it’s worth noting that the Saints failed to get past the NFC Championship round after winning the Super Bowl in his fourth season on the job. Read more at: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nfl/carolina-panthers/article271220337.html#storylink=cpy

Not the QB I would like to have for my team.

BS

You can disagree with me or any other poster here but personal and demeaning attacks are out of line.

There you go again. What an arrogant and condescending remark.

Every play in the NFL is a risk. If he did not want the contract they were offering and was worried about his future, he should have sat out the year instead of collecting a check and and then leaving the team in a bad situation at the end of the year.

He put himself in that situation. My under formed mind understands that he quit on his team. Period. Also I am disappointed that you felt it necessary to belittle me to make your point. You made a point alright, maybe not the one you were going for.

Sounds good to me. They deserve each other.

You want a player who quit on his team during a playoff run. Has an injury history not to mention has been out multiple times with mysterious illnesses. No thanks.

A few years ago a petition got JR to put Panther logos on the field...not in the middle as the fans wanted but a little change. Of course, there was very little money involved in that. Tepper made the turf move for money reasons, doubt he is going to change that voluntarily.

ok, I have seen this several times...did not notice if they were all from the same person.

Why is this happening all of a sudden?

Happy birthday to LCF. Hope her team beats Brady.

lol..Jones is not leaving NY.