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Time to get ugly again...


Mr. Scot

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The sig pic for this year is, however, unfinished.

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The candidates to fill the empty right guard spot are shown here.

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I'd say Robinson is the ugliest of the bunch, potentially the ugliest of the entire line (though Gross will always be a leader in that category, and not easily unseated).

I'm including the no-longer-Dudeish Scwartz because he got some right guard work at minicamp. Hadn't seen whether they were still giving him any work there, but I'd like to see it.

Pics are smaller than usual this season because Panthers.com no longer includes headshots on profile pages. had to load the pics from NFL.com, which has always tended toward smaller sizes. Ironic, when you consider the real-life size of some of these melons :sosp:

Thus, here is your annual tribute to the aesthetically challenged.

(you may now commence gagging)

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Ah, but offensive linemen should be ugly.

Admittedly, other positions don't concern me as much. The ladies may tell you that QBs should be handsome, but I'm not overly concerned with that.

The O-Line, however, should have faces that clocks should fear and only a mother could love. And the Panthers have traditionally been very successful in this department.

We don't call them The Big Uglys for nothing.

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And for the record, my buddy's teenage daughter thinks Clausen is cute.

She actually hopes he starts at QB over Moore. She thinks Moore is cute too, mind you, but he's married.

(teenagers) :sosp:

Nothing beat the year you had Hartwig with the mohawk on there. That was an ugly line. :)

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Nothing beat the year you had Hartwig with the mohawk on there. That was an ugly line. :)

True :lol:

It does occur to me that if any of his line-mates surf this forum and run across that little montage I posted, it could result in some grief for Wharton :lol:

Could be worse, though. Unfortunately, his "Travellvis' picture from the annual Halloween event is nowhere to be found online.

(wish I had that one saved)

Either that, or I could have included this shot:

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Not exactly flattering, is it?

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My question is (and this might be poll-worthy Mr Scot):

Who, in the history of the Panthers, has been the ugliest "Big Ugly" so far? I know Gross has to be a front-runner on this one, but there's been some that have scared small children before. Willig, Nelson, and Mohawk Hartwig might just challenge him! :lol:

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