no fan fest thread and no videos from fan fest, even on twitter?

[CPF4LIFE]

To piggyback on what lightsout said, im one of those folks thats 35+ and just dont frequent message boards like I use too. I will say my activity will pick up once the season or the real games start and I imagine that will be the same for a lot of people. Ultimately, the panthers have to show they have really turned a corner to get the excitement back. Not much else to it, I get tired of seeing videos and articles with the header "The league isn't ready for what the panthers are about to do!" It gets tired seeing that and then nothing actually changes. I will wait and see for my own eyes.

Edited August 3 by CPF4LIFE

[Joe Bear]

Legette played really well tonight and Horn (the rookie one) showed out as well.

[lightsout]

21 minutes ago, Joe Bear said:

Legette played really well tonight and Horn (the rookie one) showed out as well.

I think it's time we, as a fan base, cleanse ourselves of the curse of the former Panthers Jimmy. Pickles can't hurt us now. There's a new Jimmy on town and he has actual talent and it's best we just call him Jimmy. I know it stirs up some deep emotions, but it's time. Lol

[PNW_PantherMan]

We're getting older and there isn't gonna be anyone to replace us if this team doesn't win some damn games lol.

[Jackie Lee]

lol 

[TD alt]

6 hours ago, Super Grateful said:

@PantherNationPC is had some nice videos on twitter I found. Crazy that I have to dig through twitter to find shakey videos from the stands to see my team in the golden era of media. Huddle is definitely bottom tier for fan interaction and insight these days. 

I think that there's plenty of insight. There are still hardcore fans here that have been fans for years (decades in some cases), and have no shortage of insight---at least reasoned rationale or opinions. Being that many of us are older, it's going to take more than Fan Fest to get us excited. A preseason game is more exciting because at least I can focus on a "practice" from more of a macro perspective due to all the cameras and camera angles from the comfort of my living room.

Get off my lawn. 

I'm really worried about the Panthers once Gen X and Millennials start disappearing.

5 hours ago, csx said:

Ive been watching YouTube coverage the last hour.

People hear arent interested in the football. They want to argue about drafts and trades forever 

Not interested in the football? I think that is patently false. Preseason has barely started, and there hasn't been any real football for Panthers fans for about seven months. During the off-season, of course people are going to discuss drafts for a time and trades. Once the regular season begins, there will be a change in focus (like always). How long that focus lasts depends upon how well we are doing (or not), and if we are realistically in playoff contention. Otherwise, the off-season essentially starts a little early, but many still watch most  of the games (if not all of them), and fewer some will voice their opinions and give insights regarding the play.

[TD alt]

And call me a Huddle homer, Huddle snob or whatever, but on other platforms, fans say some real stupid sh¡t. It's like they don't even know the team sometimes the sh¡t be so stupid. 

[Move the Panthers to Raleigh]

 

 

Seriously, training camp and fanfest reports don’t excite me especially since the team hasn’t been winners since 2017.

People are still enjoying (or not enjoying) their summers and you expect a full rundown of FANFEST!

Get out there and do the reports yourself if you’re worried about it

[kungfoodude]

2 hours ago, TD alt said:

I think that there's plenty of insight. There are still hardcore fans here that have been fans for years (decades in some cases), and have no shortage of insight---at least reasoned rationale or opinions. Being that many of us are older, it's going to take more than Fan Fest to get us excited. A preseason game is more exciting because at least I can focus on a "practice" from more of a macro perspective due to all the cameras and camera angles from the comfort of my living room.

Get off my lawn. 

I'm really worried about the Panthers once Gen X and Millennials start disappearing.

Not interested in the football? I think that is patently false. Preseason has barely started, and there hasn't been any real football for Panthers fans for about seven months. During the off-season, of course people are going to discuss drafts for a time and trades. Once the regular season begins, there will be a change in focus (like always). How long that focus lasts depends upon how well we are doing (or not), and if we are realistically in playoff contention. Otherwise, the off-season essentially starts a little early, but many still watch most  of the games (if not all of them), and fewer some will voice their opinions and give insights regarding the play.

The GenX and Millenials are the bulk of the fanbase. Boomers usually had their allegiances already by the time 1995 rolled around. Gen Z and whatever the next one is will have an extremely small Panthers fanbase. Even my die hard Panther friends(who have dwindled to almost nothing) don't really bother exposing their kids to the team anymore. I get it. 

The NFL and football are going to decline significantly in domestic popularity sooner rather than later. It's just inevitable as US demographics and even moreso engagement is sharply declining in those ranks. The NFL's future will depend on their ability to build an international audience, IMO. There is literally no growth potential domestically in 10-15 years.

It's nothing new. The MLB, NASCAR and the NHL had had these declines in my lifetime. The MLB ended up recovering, the NHL is attempting to do so. NASCAR is probably not going to recover.

[PantherChris]

9 hours ago, lightsout said:

 

 

Put simply, this board's primary base was people here from the beginning until around 2015. The ones who came because Cam never stuck, save for a couple. The rest of us are now 35+ years old with jobs and families in an economy that sees us making more than double what we made 10 years ago and being no better off for it. We just don't have the time to invest in this place. 

Bingo

[mrcompletely11]

3 hours ago, TD alt said:

And call me a Huddle homer, Huddle snob or whatever, but on other platforms, fans say some real stupid sh¡t. It's like they don't even know the team sometimes the sh¡t be so stupid. 

Mac and bone on Friday were saying we should pay Bryce 50 million per year if he replicates the last 10 games of the season.   So yeah stupidity and irrationalness is the air.  

[PantherChris]

2 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

Mac and bone on Friday were saying we should pay Bryce 50 million per year if he replicates the last 10 games of the season.   So yeah stupidity and irrationalness is the air.  

And then there is this guy ^^^^ who has such an impressive level of one mindedness that he drags bryce hate into every single thread after complaining for years we needed to draft a qb #1.

[kungfoodude]

13 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

Mac and bone on Friday were saying we should pay Bryce 50 million per year if he replicates the last 10 games of the season.   So yeah stupidity and irrationalness is the air.  

TBH, overall Panthers content has gone downhill as the franchise has. Even the Hornets have better quality content creators involved than the Panthers do now, IMO.

I get it. Fan engagement for the Panthers has to be near record lows at this point. 

[mrcompletely11]

21 minutes ago, PantherChris said:

And then there is this guy ^^^^ who has such an impressive level of one mindedness that he drags bryce hate into every single thread after complaining for years we needed to draft a qb #1.

And there is this guy that completely misses the point.  But stalk away stalky