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Just curious as to why the Panthers are your team.


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For me, it's easy: I am a native North Carolinian who moved around a bit coming up, but has lived here for most of my adult life (the last 18 years), not to mention coming to visit my extended family for multiple summers as a child.

I am curious as to who has no native "local" ties to the area (i.e., NC, SC, VA, GA, or TN), but just decided to support the Panthers for other reasons.

Perhaps you picked them because of a player, their colors, cool logo, or something else. What's your story?

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Didn't have a team growing up. The Raiders & Rams both were gone, which is fine cuz I didn't like them anyway, and I did cheer for SF cuz my brother in law liked em at the time. Then when I was in middle school & the kid that sat in front of me had this electric blue jacket with a black panther logo on it. Thought it looked cool and it turns out I find that it's a new NFL expansion team that was gonna start playing next season. I followed them ever since but I would say when Rodney was the QB is when I started to really turn into a bigger fan and it snowballed year after year and now I have more love for them than even the Lakers and that's saying something.

Panthers till my casket drops!!!

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I'm from TN and I was only into college football, Auburn WAR EAGLE! But my friend is a big bucs fan and would cook out and invite me over to watch the game. I'd always root against him and one day I got really into the game and they were playing the Panthers who won. After that even though I didn't really care about nfl, if people asked me who I liked I'd say the Panthers.

A few years later I was bored on a Sunday and the Panthers were on and I kind of liked them so I watched the game. 2004 1-7 record and they won against the 49ers. Watched the next week and the next and they kept winning. Been a huge fan ever since.

I never miss a game now. I was in the library "studying" last season watching the Thursday Night Game on my sprint 2 inch screen cell phone.

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from south carolina. i never even heard about the panthers 'til i was in college and heard some team called carolina was in the super bowl. my family always watched baseball. i didn't know anything about football. since then i learned everything i could about football, and now it's really the only sport i'm interested in to an obsessive degree. i'd love to find a copy of that super bowl now that i can watch it and actually follow what's going on. back then all i knew was when the panthers were happy that was a good thing.

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From SC. I never really had a FAVorite NFL team while growing up....watched the Redskins on tv alot because that was all we could see....then in '95 the Panthers started playing their 'home' games at Clemson while Ericsson Stadium was being built.

We used to have chemical salesmen come in to the plant where I work and hand out stacks of free tickets to those games and free tickets sounded good to me.....saw the Giants, 49ers, Cardinals, and Kerry Collins' come back win against the Falcons.....I was hooked!

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