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Washington Post article on Tepper/Panthers

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For those first few hours, David Tepper’s new colleagues were introducing themselves, watching him, sizing him up.

John Mara, a stately man whose family has owned the New York Giants for nearly a century, at one point made his way over to shake the hand of the new Carolina Panthers owner and decided he’d wait to make up his mind. Jerry Jones, the renegade oil tycoon who has owned the Dallas Cowboys since 1989, figured that on the basis that Tepper — a hedge-fund multibillionaire who pledged a record $2.275 billion to buy the Panthers — is serious about the two things most important to Jones, pro football and money, he figured they’d probably get along.

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He is somewhere between a cultural wrecking ball to a league mired in recent years by wide-ranging scandals and a dramatic contradiction to how it normally does business — which, regardless of dropping television ratings and decreasing overall popularity, projected last year’s annual revenue at a record $14 billion.

So here’s one question some of those franchise owners were pondering as they welcomed a new and unpredictable member into their tribe: Is it more likely that David Tepper will change the NFL, or that the NFL will change him?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/david-tepper-is-buying-the-carolina-panthers-hes-nothing-like-an-nfl-owner/2018/06/01/d67fc200-6434-11e8-99d2-0d678ec08c2f_story.html?utm_term=.39b0ca38814f

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Tepper will turn the Panthers into a model organization. Winning consistently on the field like the Steelers, Patriots, etc. and winning off the field through unheard of philanthropy.  Brass balls will gain his respect and others will follow. I'm excited for the future. 

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We are already one of the more successful franchises since Cam/Rivera came on board. My hope is that Tepper helps push us into that next echelon of teams. We need continued, sustained success on the field every year!! No more taking a season off after a good one! 

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