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A thought concerning our fandom

SaltAndPepper

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5 hours ago, SaltAndPepper said:

Since Tepper bought the team, there has been six losing seasons. The general temperature of the fanbase has now gone from impatient to apathetic. It's no secret that a lot of us here at the huddle are turning off the game, posting less, etc. 

Similar to how Snyder lost a significant portion of the fan-base to the Panthers, Eagles, and other organizations as his reign of tyranny continued, could we see a palpatable loss like that in just fans from Tepper? Could Panthers fans who were originally Redskin Refugees go back to the Commanders (or whatever their name may be in the future)? Could the health of the Panthers slowly be going Comatose? 

I'll be donating my Panthers gear to the homeless and golfing or bike riding on Sundays.  

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2 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Let's be honest and pat all of ourselves on the back for a minute. If you have enough care left in you to come here to discuss this team in anyway as a fan, you're as fuging diehard as fans come. All the fairweather fans jumped off of this ship years ago.

The last time the Detroit Lions won their division or won a playoff game was before the Panthers were an NFL team.  The Tampa Bay Bucs left the Lions division in 2002 to join the NFC South.  The Bucs have won the Lions division more recently than the Lions have won their division.

The die hards never left, and they won't leave the Panthers.  Die hard Lions fans learned to cope in different ways.  Some found other things to do on Sunday's while still keeping up with the team.  Some found a second team to follow.  They didn't change teams, they just found a way to channel some of the gameday passion towards something else.  In the end the way to cope is all the same.  Stop living and dying on the results of the game each week.  You didn't become a fan of the Panthers because they were winners.  And if you did and you are still here...congrats...you graduated from bandwagon fan to die hard.  It means riding out the lows and not letting it ruin your day.  

One last story: On September 26, 2021 the Detroit Lions were looking for their first win under the new coaching staff during a 1-9 streak for the franchise that would become 1-16-1.  The Lions were up by 1 and it was the last snap of the game.  The opponents kicker lined up for the longest field goal in NFL history.  Some Lions fans turned the TV off and went about their day.  Not because they were "too nervous to watch."  But because they had seen this movie before.  Others laughed and said "I knew it" as the ball went thru the uprights.  For Lions fans it wasn't even the first time they had seen their team lose to the longest field goal in NFL history.

As a die hard you are stuck for life.  So its all about making it work the best you can.  Learn to dance in the rain, or at least collect buckets of the rain to use later.  Crying and smashing things every Sunday is going to get repetitive and is completely non-productive.

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