How many of your friends/family members have become "hardcore" Panther fans recently?

[bleys]

None...  Outside of my immediate family, the rest don't give a poo about the teams they don't pull for. 

I can't blame them.   I don't care about their teams either. 

[blackcat]

You people associate yourselves with non-Panther fans?

[fjblair]

No one I know but it's perfectly normal for the casual fan to be more interested when you are undefeated and the best team in the NFL.

[CLG]

My sister's been pretty aggravating. Now all of a sudden once we got 10-0, she starts posting stuff about us on FB. I asked her has she actually seen any of the games.. and she tells me no. I'm like... you don't deserve to rep us so openly, you don't know how many years of trash I've watched to enjoy this moment lol. But, it comes with the territory. 

[Ricky Spanish]

3 hours ago, blackcat said:

You people associate yourselves with non-Panther fans?

I live in Charlotte so it's kind of hard not too unfortunately...

 

But things are getting better!

[The Lone Panther]

Zero Panther fans in my family.  In fact, they don't even watch football with the exception of my sister and Aunt, but that's just college ball, and they're bandwagon fans, too.  

 

We have a lot of family parties on Sundays and my folks get pissed when I'm in the other room by myself watching the Panthers game instead of being in the living room "socializing" with them.  They just don't understand.  

 

Safe to say, I don't have a whole lot in common with my family. 

[Shields17]

I've been a Panthers fan since I was like 7, or 8. My step father and I would play Madden on the PS1  with my uncle. The first year I started playing, I liked the Panthers (because of their colors, and they were new). That was the simple foundation of my die-hard fandom now.

My step-father has been a die-hard Broncos fan his whole life. We lived together in New England for about 20 years, before I recently moved to the Tampa Bay area this year. He's rooting for the Panthers as much as I'm rooting for the Broncos. The dream of finally having our Panthers / Broncos Superbowl is very much alive, and I very much have one bandwagon fan I can claim direct responsibility for.

[gtanaka]

LOL yes. 
I went home for thanksgiving (Raleigh, Nc) and suddenly everyone is all Panthers and excited for the Cowboys game. Some of the same people that would ask why I followed the Panthers so closely if they sucked... smh

Just will take some getting used to. 

[Hammerin'Cameron34]

1 hour ago, The Lone Panther said:

Zero Panther fans in my family.  In fact, they don't even watch football with the exception of my sister and Aunt, but that's just college ball, and they're bandwagon fans, too.  

 

We have a lot of family parties on Sundays and my folks get pissed when I'm in the other room by myself watching the Panthers game instead of being in the living room "socializing" with them.  They just don't understand.  

 

Safe to say, I don't have a whole lot in common with my family. 

haha nigga its game day!! y'all should be watching the game WHILE PARTYING! is what you should tell em 

[Jangler]

My roommate has borrowed a Panther hat from me to make more tips at work. But at least he has not jumped on the bandwagon, he didn't even know we had beat the saints, but he has the rent .

[The Lone Panther]

23 minutes ago, Hammerin'Cameron34 said:

haha nigga its game day!! y'all should be watching the game WHILE PARTYING! is what you should tell em 

I wish.  All they ever want to do is sit in the living room and talk about work.  fug that bullshit. 

[iamhubby1]

Not sure how I feel about this. But...the wife has taken to sitting in on Panther games with me. I have to give her some credit, because she has actually taken upon herself to learn some of the game. She can be so cute when she wants to be.

 

Although I have to say. She still hasn't gotten the fact that football is a contact sport. She still wants to know if knocking people down is legal? She just hasn't grasped the fact that the guy with the ball is in danger.

[AKPantherFan]

Since moving to Maryland I have now 2 new buddies that are new panther fans and come to my house to watch every Sunday. Screw it, the more the merrier. 

[PhillyB]

my manager is a huge bucs fan, but after about week seven he's suddenly a bucs fan who pulls for the local team when they're not playing the bucs.

this is how you build fanbases. steal the marginal fans and the fence-sitters and galvanize their asses