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Interesting read...

CatMan72

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I have that book autographed by the author I got it from the local lioness club for 75 cents. Forever ago.

Good read.

I'm excited to read it, it's a much thicker book then the books Fowler and someone else put out (Chandler?)... seems to contain much more detail and insight.

Looked up the main author Menzer, he was the Panthers beat writer for the Winston-Salem paper at the time, now he writes for NASCAR.COM

Based on the amount of detail captured in this book it sounds like we lost a pretty good beat writer.

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More tidbits:

- Panthers knew that contacting Capers was technically "tampering" but they had received the blessing of the Steelers FO and coach Cowher and Polian figured it would be worth whatever penalty they had to pay to get they guy the wanted. Polian saw Capers as another Marv Levy and McCormack saw Capers as another Paul Brown.

- I knew that Gibbs was the original first choice for the HC job and talks got very serious. I didn't know (or remember) that Spurrier was the # 2 candidate, apparently Polian crossed him off after spending some time with him and concluding he didn't have the work-ethic to be a successful NFL head coach.

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Panthers typically are solitary animals which makes them a weird choice for the name of team. They are also very rare as they are typically infertile as well as particularly ornery animals stemming from frequent inbreeding amongst the species.

Sounds perfect for us.

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