Highlites from Fan Fest!!!

[Steves89]

1 hour ago, kungfoodude said:

I think the 7 straight losing seasons, the campaign to reduce fan interest during training camp and the lightspeed stupid decision to start charging for Fan Fest took a toll.

I only knew part of this. Good lord that’s dumb 

[csx]

Fan Fest has never been crowded 

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

2 hours ago, kungfoodude said:

I think the 7 straight losing seasons, the campaign to reduce fan interest during training camp and the lightspeed stupid decision to start charging for Fan Fest took a toll.

Tepper brought us Motley Crue doing hair metal karaoke and concerts with double headliners Bryce Bentley and Bentley Bryce doing their hits "My Truck Ain't Fancy" and "She Ain't Fancy" though.

[45catfan]

56 minutes ago, NAS said:

It’s fan fest, people get food and drinks and stuff. You expect everyone to be glued to their seats like it’s the playoffs?

Oh, so the entire upper bowl was grabbing a beer?  In year's past at least some of the upper bowl had fans and the lower bowl was packed.  

[mrcompletely11]

51 minutes ago, csx said:

Fan Fest has never been crowded 

In 98 it was absolutely jam packed for whatever reason.  Past that you are right.  

[t96]

1 hour ago, NAS said:

Bryce threw an absolute perfect pass on a rope from 45 yards out to the end zone and XL dropped it.  It may have been PI but I still think he must get better at reeling those in this year.  

I fear that XL just sucks and will be a bust. But Tet and Coker can make it so that wouldn’t matter 

[kungfoodude]

1 hour ago, toldozer said:

The 5 dollars for a ticket is not new and the decision at the time wasn't stupid. I think it was 2015 or 2016 and more people showed up then the stadium could hold with the way they set up fireworks but it was just show up no questions asked like it had always been and that was fine until 70,000 fuging people showed up. Then the next year you had to have a ticket but you could sign up free. They were snagged up and held for ransom and no one showed to fanfest because they didn't want to pay for something that was given away for free. Then they came up with the 5 dollars that I believe is donated to charity. It's not perfect because people still try to resale them but it's far from stupid. We no longer have the demand problem so they could go back to just allowing everyone in for free but as soon as the Panthers are good again they'd have the issue

Okay. I haven't been in years so I was under the assumption it was new. I didn't realize it was a decade old.

[jb2288]

1 hour ago, NAS said:

He has been doing a lot, looks great physically and explosive. There was plenty of videos of him practicing routes and this was a great one. But he needs to get better at catching under duress. 

Yeah I have zero concerns on him besides catching the ball. Unfortunately that’s a very large part of it 

[Lurk21]

I think XL will be ok but if he doesn't,  it's ok. He has enough competition on his heels to where 1 injury from him and he could drop a spot or 2 in pecking order.  It's up to him. 

[Icege]

3 hours ago, Steves89 said:

Thanks for posting! I was wondering why there wasn’t a thread! Anyone from the huddle go? Have any observations? I live out of state and so always appreciate getting to read highlights from training camp. It is the Hopeful time of year. 

Sorry mang, I drove back from Orlando yesterday otherwise I would've created a thread and posted highlights. Still haven't gotten a chance to catch up on the action myself, but I might go ahead and do so.

It'd at least be more productive than bitching about the team and pretending that any contribution would've been made if they hadn't been bad the last few seasons.

[PNW_PantherMan]

1 hour ago, mrcompletely11 said:

In 98 it was absolutely jam packed for whatever reason.  Past that you are right.  

Same year we acquired Dameyune Craig.  That explains it.

[jfra78]

18 minutes ago, PNW_PantherMan said:

Same year we acquired Dameyune Craig.  That explains it.

Man was in the HoF, might still be

[ForJimmy]

3 hours ago, kungfoodude said:

I mean, given the general lack of threads being started at all, I don't think we need to do that level of housekeeping yet.

Lol seriously we had a thread about Coker being traded for Lloyd go 14 pages and get locked. We are good with new threads with actual content. 

[pantherdad]

5 hours ago, 45catfan said:

Was the upper bowl closed or unused?  Looks like plenty of empty sets in the lower bowl.

One side of the upper deck was open