If you weren't a Panthers fan....

[Jump Zone]

If not for the Panthers, I would still be a Packers fan. I am just old enough to remember the end of the Lombardi era. I suffered through the next couple down decades and about the time they were good again, we got the Panthers and I switched to the home team...

[GoPanthers123]

Cardinals, they are a bit like the panthers, no one talks about them. 

[Panther8989]

Eagles. Because I grew up cheering for them. I went to the NFC title game wearing my Dawkins jersey. I am ashamed to admit I was one of the many fans who egged the Vikings bus on the way out.

[DaveThePanther2008]

My father was from Baltimore and back my grandfather took us to a Colts training camp.   After the practice they had Maryland's famous steamed Crabs which my grandfather had something to with it.   We met some of the Colts.  He also got us one of the old white footballs signed by the Colts.  Unitas, Berry, Bubba Smith and many other HOFer Colts. (Brother still has the ball).

Needless to say I was a Colts fan.   However, when they left in 1984 I was an NFL fan without a team.  Hated Indy for stealing my team though it really was the AH Irsay.   Fortunately my friend and I joined a fantasy league (where you mailed in your weekly team) $5 buck per week, $1 per trade or FA pick up.   We did that for a couple of years.   

Obviously in 1993 when we were awarded the Panthers I became a fan.

If the Panthers were not around I would have to say I would have jumped on the Raven's bandwagon when they moved from Cleveland o Baltimore.  Johnny Unitas, my childhood hero, was allowed to roam the sidelines in Baltimore until he died in 2002.  

[SCMunnerlyn1]

Bengals. Favorite uniforms in the league and typically team has a ton of personality cause they sign everybody with an attitude problem. 

[saints4lifeagain]

22 hours ago, uncfan888 said:

I wouldn't really care. Panthers are the only team that matters

You're a smart fella. You'd come join us in Who Dat Nation.

[bababoey]

The Skins are the team I grew up with, that being said since they changed ownership I could not see myself rooting for them.  The whole organization just seems to have taken a nosedive.  Probabaly the Steelers even though Ben makes it hard to really like them, but they use to have pretty solid defenses and I enjoy watching good defensive football.

[nosuchthingasapanther]

seattle.

always been a seahawks fan.

it's the one team the panthers can lose to and i won't feel like the world is coming to an end.

[mc52beast]

Lived in Ohio until I joined the military so would probably go back to the lowly and inept Browns

[uncfan888]

2 hours ago, saints4lifeagain said:

You're a smart fella. You'd come join us in Who Dat Nation.

Get pooped on, bruh haha

[KSpan]

Got into football about the same time as the Panthers came about so Carolina's the only team I've ever rooted for (and been on that wagon since '95), so tough to say. I live in KC but never cared for the Chiefs so not sure that I'd have any team allegiance.

[Defend the Shield!]

I got into football in the first place solely because of the Panthers' great 2013 season. I was in the Navy on deployment at the time, and on the weekly ship newsletter we'd get NFL scores, and I noticed my hometown Panthers kept winning week after week (after a weak start.) That got me interested enough to actually learn the rules of the game so I could know what I was watching. 

That said, I only cared enough to check the scores because of how much I'd enjoyed the 49ers/Ravens Super Bowl earlier in the year, and became fond of both the Seahawks and Washington state after visiting for a while. So I'd likely support Seattle and Baltimore with no hometown team, if I watched NFL at all.

[Moo Daeng]

I wouldn't likely follow the NFL at all.

[Pimpdaddy]

9 hours ago, mc52beast said:

Lived in Ohio until I joined the military so would probably go back to the lowly and inept Browns

...Me too bratha...