Jump to content

  • Welcome!

    Register and log in easily with Twitter or Google accounts!

    Or simply create a new Huddle account. 

    Members receive fewer ads , access our dark theme, and the ability to join the discussion!

     

Jason Witten

ladypanther

By ladypanther,
in Carolina Panthers

Recommended Posts

ladypanther Grand Master

ladypanther

Posted
Posted

...is from my hometown,   He was raised by his grandfather who was the head coach of the high school football team. (Small town...only 1 team in the city). Jason played for his grandfather...went to Tenn...and the rest is history. By the way...his grandfather is a legend in HS sports.

His brother Sean has been the coach of the same high school team for the last few years.  Today....they won the state championship for the first time since 1936.

Congrats to my HS alma mater....Elizabethton High School Cyclones.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
ladypanther Grand Master

ladypanther

Posted
  • Author
Posted
1 minute ago, Basbear said:

@ladypanther is the only person on this board who could make this thread and not get flamed. 

congrats!

Hope you are right....thanks.

In my small town...the HS football team was important...but the town was also very supportive of the HS band,,,which had won many awards. The latter paid for my college education.

When I was there.....for every home game there was a parade. 

How do you beat that?

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
heel31ok Experienced

heel31ok

Posted
Posted
54 minutes ago, ladypanther said:

...is from my hometown,   He was raised by his grandfather who was the head coach of the high school football team. (Small town...only 1 team in the city). Jason played for his grandfather...went to Tenn...and the rest is history. By the way...his grandfather is a legend in HS sports.

His brother Sean has been the coach of the same high school team for the last few years.  Today....they won the state championship for the first time since 1936.

Congrats to my HS alma mater....Elizabethton High School Cyclones.

Elizabethton...that explains a lot about Witten...

Link to comment
Share on other sites
1of10Charnatives Mentor

1of10Charnatives

Posted
Posted
2 minutes ago, ok2h8pep said:

Elizabethton has a nice downtown area - kind of a small town feel like a West Jefferson or Waxhaw although I think E-ton is a bit bigger than either of those.   It's definitely worth a day trip if you've never been. 

If you think Waxhaw still has a nice small town feel, you haven't been there lately. My family is from there and 20 years ago my grandmother was complaining about losing her elbow room as people moved out there. Now it's pretty much overrun by yankees who have made it the trendy new suburb. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
ok2h8pep Explorer

ok2h8pep

Posted
Posted
1 minute ago, 1of10Charnatives said:

If you think Waxhaw still has a nice small town feel, you haven't been there lately. My family is from there and 20 years ago my grandmother was complaining about losing her elbow room as people moved out there. Now it's pretty much overrun by yankees who have made it the trendy new suburb. 

Yeah I was there this week.   Came from Charlotte City Center.  It's a fuging small town.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
1of10Charnatives Mentor

1of10Charnatives

Posted
Posted
Just now, ok2h8pep said:

Yeah I was there this week.   Came from Charlotte City Center.  It's a fuging small town.

I didn't say it was big, what I was commenting on is that it has lost that small town FEEL. It doesn't feel like a small town anymore, it feels like a trendy suburb. Small towns don't get traffic jams or have shiny new trendy local breweries and haute cuisine eateries next to an ice cream shop that's been open less than 3 years. Waxhaw used to have antique shops with actual local antiques in them and a local eatery that had been there for generations run by the same people. Now it's a bar, indistinguishable from bars you might find in Matthews or SouthPark or Noda or Huntersville.  

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

Go to topic listing

  • PMH4OWPW7JD2TDGWZKTOYL2T3E.jpg

  • Topics

  • Posts

    • Mr. Scot
      2025 Schedule Release - post 'em when you find 'em

      By Mr. Scot · Posted

      This might be a good time for a Jerry Richardson reference.   ...   Actually, no it wouldn't 😕
    • Mr. Scot
      Exclusive First Image Of Nicolas Cage As Football Icon John Madden & Christian Bale As Raiders Owner Al Davis In Amazon MGM’s ‘Madden’

      By Mr. Scot · Posted

      Nicolas Cage is certainly fun to watch in "Nicolas Cage" roles (Face Off, The Rock, 8MM). Parts generally need to suit his particular persona or things can wind up looking kind of silly ('Not the bees! NOT THE BEEEES!!!") Having him play an actual historical figure... eeehhh, just seems like a bad idea, similar to having Dwayne Johnson star in a biopic about Martin Luther King 😕
    • WhoKnows
      JJ Jansen on tanking

      By WhoKnows · Posted

      Dude, I’m sorry but I don’t get your worries about this magical culture and fan involvement. We’ve sucked balls since 2018 because we actually did what you want to do. Limp along and try to win as many games as possible without actually being good. All that does is cause the same problems you didn’t want to gamble on happening. Well, they did what you wanted and what did we get for it? 7 drafts and Young, Horn and Brown, not exactly a SB winning core. We haven’t won more than 7 games since 2017 and you are worried about risking our culture, etc.? That’s silly. Cam and Luke have been gone for 5+ years now. We finally had a draft in 2025 where we actually had our full allotment of picks. We absolutely screwed up by not going full rebuild. Texans did in the same window and they’ve been to the playoffs multiple times and have a much better team. Any fan issues now in Houston even with the Watson massage debacle? I will separate this statement because I get annoyed at back seat driving type comments. Many of us like minded draft followers and GM and wannabes said that we should have tanked in 2022 and traded every guy where teams offered quality picks. You might not like it, but we were 100% correct. Sure, Fitterer might have pissed them away but the Rams 2024/2025 1sts would have been Morgan’s picks. You also have to rebuild through the draft, period, which is why bad teams try build up picks, not trade them all away or don’t take hauls when available. There’s not one team that rebuilt through FA and was successful. It doesn’t exist because the key guys (Eagles OL/DL, Hurts, Mahomes, Kelce, Chris Jones) on Super Bowl teams (Kuechly, TD, Cam) are drafted. I grew up in CT and I went to Pats games when people handed you stacks of free tickets in the parking lot because no one wanted to go to their games. One QB and a bunch of solid OL/D picks and they were a different franchise. We can only hope that Canales is the right coach and that 2025 is the start of drafting well. If I’m being objective, we’ve still got a ways to go.
×
×
  • Create New...