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Mr. Scot

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I was 11 years old. Watching the game at home with my dad. He is a diehard Bengals fan, but I know he loved seeing me so into football at that point in my life. 
 

I had only been following the Panthers and keeping tabs on every game for a couple of seasons at that point. My first memories involve Chris Weinke and Wesley Walls.  
 

I’ll never forget watching this game as long as I live. Sitting on pins and needles the entire time. As soon as Smitty caught it and took off, my dad and I jumped off the couch and started screaming. As he ran it in, I remember trying to give my dad a big hug, while still jumping, and I accidentally head butted my dad right in the chin! I felt so bad about it, but he was fine and just super happy for me. 
 

Sat alone in my room watching us the week after beat the Eagles to go to the Super Bowl.  Was too nervous to watch with anyone else at that point. Pretty sure I cried when we won. I know I cried when Brady beat us, but that was obviously a very different kind of sobbing. 

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20 minutes ago, TheCasillas said:

Standing in middle of my parents living room jumping up and down with tears running down my face. I was 15 at the time. 

This.

I don't think I could make myself sit down for the entire overtime. Just anxious pacing the entire time.

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14 minutes ago, 1of10Charnatives said:

At a bar, with a friend of a friend who is arguably one of the bigger aholes I've ever known, but also a Panthers fan. When that pass got caught, we might as well have been the best of friends. Whole bar went nuts.

My best buddy and I have known each other since we were three years old. Over the course of our fifty-plus year friendship, we've hugged four times...

When my mother died...

When he made a life changing decision...

When his father died...

...and when Michael Vick fumbled against WVU, allowing the Mountaineers to get the ball and take the lead over Virginia Tech.

 

(Lady Cowboy Fan makes fun of me a lot over this) 😕

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By best friend and his wife lived with us then.  I was yelling so much that she (totally uninterested in football) started watching.  You know the up and down emotions that you had during that game.  Going through them while seeing her get just as excited about it was really cool.  Not just that she wasn't a Panther fan.  She didn't even like football but LOVED/HATED/LOVED that game.

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And just a cool reminder:  Do you remember the horrible feeling as overtime #1 was ending and we couldn't do anything on first or 2nd down.  It just had the feeling that we were going to have to punt it back to them.

Instead, 

 

        X-CLOWN!

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58 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

...this happened?

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I know for some the answer might be along the lines of "in preschool" (perhaps even "not yet born" for a few) but for those of us old enough and lucky enough to have watched arguably the greatest moment in Panthers history happen live; where were you. who were you with, what did you do, etc.

Tell your X-Clown story...

Watching in an off campus apartment at a party after taking my brother back to NC State.

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46 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

...this happened?

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I know for some the answer might be along the lines of "in preschool" (perhaps even "not yet born" for a few) but for those of us old enough and lucky enough to have watched arguably the greatest moment in Panthers history happen live; where were you. who were you with, what did you do, etc.

Tell your X-Clown story...

I had just moved into my new apartment in Boone.  Watching with my new roommates, the game was gut wrenching.  True to form Cardiac Cats.  Ricky Manning Jrs INT nearly gave me a heart attack. (I think the Rams’ FG that fell short actually did.)

Then came the first play of double OT.  The first double OT game Id ever seen.  Jake drops back, pumps, then fires a bullet to a breaking Smith and BOOM!

Im out the front door into the night ripping my shirt off running full bore into the freezing mountain air.

Thats when I hit the ice in the parking lot.  

Popped back up like it never happened and more deliberately made my way back inside.

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I was in my first apartment.  My roommate and I were just watching the game, drinking, snacking etc.  Then that play happened and we lost our poo!  Jumping, screaming, and generally upsetting our neighbors.  Yeah, we were totally excited and happy jerks 😃

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I was sitting in a yard sale recliner in the living room of my 750 odd square foot house that was built by a man in 1938 ( an ancient relic of a by gone Wilmington) located in Middle Sound, NC .  Luckily the  roof was of the age that it was made of actual boards and nails or  I probably would have blown it off with my whoops of joy.

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