2021 Who is our 'Rival'?

[PootieNunu]

9 minutes ago, panthers55 said:

I hate Atlanta and so did many of the players who are largely gone. I know many past players hated the Saints as well. With so many players coming from the Saints including our OC Joe Brady, I wonder what the players would say now??

I think most of the teams around the league, as well as the league itself hates the Saints. They love to throw cheap shots and act like total crybabies when they don't get the calls they think they deserve. 

It was just 2 years ago when Cam Jordan punched Kyle Allen during a game. 

 

Edited May 27, 2021 by PootieNunu

[Monrowed]

I believe that years ago the league tried to make Tampa Bay our rival in the division since Atlanta and New Orleans were already rivals. I do not believe that the rivalry ever took off so to say who our natural rivalry is with now I’m not entirely sure. If you ask either of those two teams who their arrival is they would say the other team and not the Panthers. If you ask a Panthers fan or at least the average Panthers fan who their rival is it’s probably going to be the Saints more than any other team.

Edited May 27, 2021 by Monrowed

[1usctrojan]

36 minutes ago, L-TownCat said:

Then you’d love the 96 playoff game.  Crushed Irvin, put him out.  They put Deon Sanders on offense and all 4 LBers dog piled him head first into the ground. He gone.  Then it was “everybody meet at Aikman.”

Good times, if you hated those Cowboys teams.

A friend game me a ticket to a Monday night game at the Arizona Cardinals new stadium - at the time.  Just the girls.  The cowturds were the opposing team.  We flew up Saturday, enjoyed some pampering before game day.  We took a tram from the hotel to the stadium, and unfortunately it was filled with Dallas fans.

Loud, brash in that grating Texas drawl, or whatever you call it.  Top of their lungs.  One male sitting across from me proceeds to put his dirty boots up on the seat next to me.  Furious, I asked him if he had been raised in a barn...didn’t his mama ever tell him you don’t do that next to a lady?  Stunned silence, feet withdrawn.  
 

Barbarians.  

[t96]

It shifts between the Falcons and Aints. Bucs bought a championship congrats to them but they're still a dumpster fire and will be again shortly so I don't care too much about them. Seahawks were easily our biggest rival outside of the division for a while there as it seemed like we played them every single year and we met in the playoffs a couple times, but still don't think they were more of a rival than Aints or Falcons.

[mccjeff]

saints or falcons for me personally. I used to be a saints fan long ago so my hatred for the falcons is long lived. And fug the saints. As an organization tho I'm not really sure there is one. 

[pantherj]

We have to be good first before I think about a rival for this season. In the past it's been the Saints for me.

[ForJimmy]

TBH the Saints have beaten us too much lately. The Falcons feel like more of a “rival” to me than any team. Now that Brees is gone is might shift back...

[RJK]

I’ve noticed over the last 2 years these division rival games don’t seem to matter to Carolina. It’s all ho hum just another game. Would be nice to see a little extra against those divisional foes 

 

[panthers55]

Dallas fans are some of the worst. Obnoxious and yelling about being America's Team. What made it worse was losing to them in the regular season often with terrible calls. I remember Peppers blocking a field goal and then getting penalized for roughing the kicker when the ref said he didn't touch it and film showed the ball trajectory was clearly altered. 

[Jon Snow]

1 hour ago, L-TownCat said:

Then you’d love the 96 playoff game.  Crushed Irvin, put him out.  They put Deon Sanders on offense and all 4 LBers dog piled him head first into the ground. He gone.  Then it was “everybody meet at Aikman.”

Good times, if you hated those Cowboys teams.

Finding that game and watching it twice should be his homework for the weekend.

[rayzor]

Our old selves and our decisions in rebuilding. That's our main rival.

The biggest questions being asked isn't about if we can beat such and such team (maybe the jets because of Darnold or pats because of Cam). 

The biggest questions are can we be better than we were in the past and did we make the right decisions in the off-season.

That's all everyone, including ourselves, have been talking about.

[Michael G]

I would say the Saints, mainly because of the trash talk between Cam N. and Cam Jordam, the broom gift, Greg Williams defense getting paid bounty for hurting players and even Sean Payton drafting Tommy Stevens so he didn't sign with us a UDFA.

[L-TownCat]

2 hours ago, Jon Snow said:

Finding that game and watching it twice should be his homework for the 

 

I just created a thread about it the other day.  Full game video link.

[L-TownCat]

3 hours ago, stackofbacon said:

Watched it last week because someone here had posted it in a thread, Summerall & Madden in the booth. that was a fun team to watch, Mills and Walls both came up big, as did others. too bad they couldn't pull off a win the next week