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Richardson statue "gone for good"

Mr. Scot

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(posted separately since the other thread went off on a bit of a tangent)

Report: Richardson won't challenge removal of statue

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The statue is gone for good from Bank of America Stadium, Scott Fowler of the Charlotte Observer reports. The report says Richardson won’t sue over its removal and that the statue isn’t important to him :thinking:

The claim that the statue isn’t important to Richardson is suspect: Why would Tepper ever have been contractually obligated to keep it if Richardson hadn’t been pushing for that? But it’s possible that Tepper and Richardson have confidentially settled on an arrangement that allows Tepper to take the statue down, and Richardson is now OK with it.

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4 minutes ago, PandaMan said:

That statue is definitely important to JR.  Glad it’s gone, though.  But those Panther statues around it are pretty cool, I’d love to have them around somewhere.  

Just put Luke, TD or Smitty in between them instead and put the statue back

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I don't buy for a single second that Richardson suddenly changed his mind or saw the error of his ways.

The more likely scenarios would be that either his people told him he couldn't win, Tepper paid him off or, as was theorized at the time of the sale, there was never really a contractual obligation to begin with.

Regardless, the statue of Ozymandias is never coming back.

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Just now, Call Me James said:

He'd be an idiot to further tarnish his legacy fighting this. 

You really think Richardson sees his legacy as "tarnished"?

I'd be willing to bet that to this day, he doesn't think he did anything wrong.

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Fowler's explanation of how they were able to do it...

In his first press conference in Charlotte as the Panthers owner, in July 2018, Tepper said he was “contractually obligated” to keep the statue of Richardson exactly where it was.

However, the contract also specified that the statue could be moved if it became a safety hazard, a source said.

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9 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

or, as was theorized at the time of the sale, there was never really a contractual obligation to begin with.

 

Please. Stop spreading this conspiracy theory. 0.0% proof of that.  Scott Fowler and Johnathon Jones have both posted details about the contract before, and again today.  FFS. 

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