Carolina Panthers were a team in 1983?

[ItsNotGonnaBeAlright]

'83 was the year, man. Sure, it's a year before I was born, but that doesn't mean that the team didn't have some heart and fire to it. And refs let them f*cking play, man...

[88 Bronco]

This would explain the "Stand and Cheer for the Panthers" fight song. That tune has 1983 written all over it.

Is that when cocaine got big in the us?

[ChucktownK]

Coulda won if coach had put Rico in.

Things woulda been different, man...

Uncle Rico

[Raleighcat83]

On a related note, I had a girl at work today tell me she went to see the Panthers play at Cleveland on Thanksgiving Day one year. I just told her I couldn't remember that game, but I'm sure it was a great time.

[Jangler]

It's too bad the Panthers couldn't have made it to the Alamo in time, might have had a different out come.

[Chaos]

Uncle Rico

He could throw a football over 'dem mountains, if they'd only let him play.

[Kyle82]

:sifone:

[Johnny Rockets]

I was at a bar in Vegas a few hours ago for a beer and had my Panthers hat on. Bar tender comes up and tells me he was a fan of the Panthers back in 1983 when nobody liked them. He said he had a big Panthers blanket hanging on the wall in his apartment back then. :thumbsup:

I didn't have the heart to tell him....

You sure he was the bar tender and not some guy who was just going behind the bar and stealing drinks all night?

[HSCBandit07]

What'll it be sir?

[Edley]

You sure he didn't mean your 1983 USFL Champion Michigan Panthers?

[Panthers_Lover]

at the earliest panthers stuff would have been made around 10 years later.

nobody talked about the NFL until we got the Hornets. So whenever we got them would be the earliest anybody knew about the Panthers. It's a lot easier for a city to get an NBA franchise, after we got our foot in the door JR started the hype machine.

That's not exactly true. Mr. Richardson officially was discussing and formulating his plans for an NFL team for the Carolinas in mid-1987 (July). Yes, after George Shinn got the Hornets (in April of that year, to begin play in 1988). However, I know for a fact that Mr. Richardson was quietly talking about the NFL team before that, taking the temperature, if you will.

[SCP]

You sure he was the bar tender and not some guy who was just going behind the bar and stealing drinks all night?

He kept charging me for beer, so I hope he was the bar tender.

[KatsAzz]

oooo!!!! Yes bartender--1983 What a year---I remember it well--The year the Carolina Panthers beat the Dallas Cowboys in the Super Bowl. Now kindly pass me another free drink,if you don't mind.