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I would imagine that Fan Fest will be even bigger this year than last. Last year was crazy. I got there about an hour before it started and didn't even get a seat until it was almost over. Any word on if they will just go ahead and have the whole stadium open from the start, or be like last year where they slowly open the upper level one section at the time? Either way I am going to definitely get there quite a bit earlier, but I would imagine everyone else in my situation last year will be doing the same. 

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11 minutes ago, o803oVaDeR said:

I guess not. Could have sworn I saw it a couple weeks ago being Friday night August 5th but I just looked and it says TBD. I have no idea how I made that mistake. Oh well, I guess this post is a little premature then.

That's probably right but I don't see it posted anywhere

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I for one will be in full attendance.  Yes last year was brutal getting a seat, but once you had one, you were still treated to a FREE Panther's practice at BofA stadium.  Not to mention it was later in the evening, so not too hot and it was dark at the end for the laser and fireworks show (my daughter loved that).  My daughter is already asking if we're going back this year.  Point being, I'm willing to put up with some minor annoyances for some lifetime memories I can spend with my family. 

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I imagine some of the mess last year is that they weren't prepared for the huge turnout.  I'm guessing this year they'll be more prepared given that we're coming off a 17-2 / Super Bowl appearance season....

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I was there last year. It was a clusterfug. Obvious that they were caught off guard, and easily the most amount of people ever for a fanfest. 

 

We we were shuffled to the upper deck and it was chaos. Basically every family for themselves. We also really wanted a beer but there were nothing open upstairs. We snapped a few pictures, hung around for 10 minutes and went to Unknown Brewing. 

 

Two things (besides the massive amount of people and resulting chaos) I remember are a guy probably around my age walking into the stadium with his kid who both had brand new Vikings Bridgewater jerseys on. That gave us a good laugh. The losers life is so boring he had nothing better to do than go into The Panthers practice with a Vikings jersey on walking around like he was so cool. We definitely asked him when the Vikes game was that night. Moron  

Also recall a middle aged dad going ballistic on panthers stadiums staff for just standing around and not being more assertive with the crowd. The guy had a point but was a colossal dickbag about it. After that awkward moment we decided it was time to go back to unknown. 

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32 minutes ago, KB_fan said:

I imagine some of the mess last year is that they weren't prepared for the huge turnout.  I'm guessing this year they'll be more prepared given that we're coming off a 17-2 / Super Bowl appearance season....

They were absolutely caught off guard with the crowd. It was almost worse than getting into an actual game. What really sucked was we wanted beers when we finally got up top all the vendors were closed. 

I may pass this year 

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