Next week is gonna be nuts

[Mr. Scot]

This week was just a warm up. The real Super Bowl hype starts on Monday.

No more off Sundays between then and the game. The feelings are just gonna keep building and building right up until game time. Fans who are already having a tough time concentrating now may as well just phone it in next week.

And the Panthers are gonna be everywhere on your TV screens. You'll see story after story after story after story. Come game time, you may know as much about these guys as their mamas do.

It was already surreal. By Saturday night, I'm not even sure what'll be the right word to describe it. The word may not even exist.

You ready for it?

[Jmac]

From zero percent coverage in September to one hundred percent in five months.....who would have guessed this.

[Cary Kollins]

No matter what, Feb. 7th will be the conclusion to the greatest season in Carolina Panthers history. 

Bittersweet to see it end, but what an incredible ride it's been.

[Mr. Scot]

NFL Network was just getting on its feet the last time we went to the Super Bowl. We were actually part of the first Super Bowl of the NFL Network era.

Now for the next seven days it's essentially the Panthers-Broncos channel.

[PntherPryd]

1 hour ago, Mr. Scot said:

NFL Network was just getting on its feet the last time we went to the Super Bowl. We were actually part of the first Super Bowl of the NFL Network era.

Now for the next seven days it's essentially the Panthers-Broncos channel.

Has anyone else noticed the coverage is definitely shifted toward the Panthers?

I don't get NFL Network at work but ESPN is 80/20 easy.

[Harbingers]

38 minutes ago, PntherPryd said:

Has anyone else noticed the coverage is definitely shifted toward the Panthers?

I don't get NFL Network at work but ESPN is 80/20 easy.

Same deal on NFLN. Its just weird...

 

Basically its Von Miller+Passrush. Manning. Everything else Panthers.

[w280sax]

I don't remember the 2 week wait for the sb in 2003 well at all.  I remember waiting until 6:30 on game day and thinking the game would never start.

Is there anything memorable from the week leading up to that game for you?

Btw, I was curious today and looked up to find we were 7 point dogs to new england in sb 38.

[rayzor]

Panthers are far more interesting than the Broncos.  could you imagine the snooze fest it would be had it been the cards in the superbowl?

People are just now really sering the Panthers and realizing just how cool a team this is. There will be a good few loud mouth and opiniated detractors,  but for the most part I see this as just the beginning of the Panthers takeover of the nation.

The more I think about it I don't really see the Seahawks losing a lot of their bandwagon, I just see two large bandwagons emerging and taking over, us and the Seahawks. People are going to be either team seahawks or team Panther. The AFC is just going to be that other group that sends teams to play either the Panthers or Seahawks in the superbowl (which will usually mean us).

 

 

[Doyle]

2 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

This week was just a warm up. The real Super Bowl hype starts on Monday.

No more off Sundays between then and the game. The feelings are just gonna keep building and building right up until game time. Fans who are already having a tough time concentrating now may as well just phone it in next week.

And the Panthers are gonna be everywhere on your TV screens. You'll see story after story after story after story. Come game time, you may know as much about these guys as their mamas do.

It was already surreal. By Saturday night, I'm not even sure what'll be the right word to describe it. The word may not even exist.

You ready for it?

Excellent post.  I keep thinking about how crazy it was in 2003.  It will be that intense X 5.  

[Toker Smurf]

No,  not ready. Somehow I have to focus enough to close the books this week. Why did I choose Accounting? 

[GRWatcher]

1 hour ago, w280sax said:

I don't remember the 2 week wait for the sb in 2003 well at all.  I remember waiting until 6:30 on game day and thinking the game would never start.

Is there anything memorable from the week leading up to that game for you?

Btw, I was curious today and looked up to find we were 7 point dogs to new england in sb 38.

Who are these unknowns? was the question for the weeks. The Pats totally respected us, rest of nation not so much, they just didn't know us. I remember lots & lots of maps, where was Charlotte? The favorite flavor was Cajun, the new medical term was Cardiac.

[GRWatcher]

25 minutes ago, Cam El said:

No,  not ready. Somehow I have to focus enough to close the books this week. Why did I choose Accounting? 

Because you wanted to hate the month of January.

[pstall]

I have even seen Panthers coverage on Food Network. ..

[PhillyB]

i have a huge interview friday. the good news is i'll still have my voice, the bad news is i'm going to flub the biggest interview of my life because i was doing panthers stuff all week leading up to it.