What would it take for you to stop being a Panthers fan?

[Ivan The Awesome]

Been through 1-15 and attended the only games we won in the 2-14 stretch, I don't think you can get any lower than that. Panthers are stuck with me to the bitter end of my existence.

[Anybodyhome]

I'm a football fan, but no longer sure of being a Panther fan. The utter playoff collapse after the 12-4 2008 season, followed by the Jake Delhomme contract debacle, followed by the player lockout, followed by the ref lockout allowed me to open my eyes even more to the business of the NFL.

Before that I had missed one home game due to an ice storm where I live and couldn't make the drive. Before that I was one of the thousands of fans who met the team at the stadium following their playoff win over the Eagles. Before that I believed the owner of this team had a firm and steadfast commitment to put a winning product on the field.

Now, not so much. Sure, I still have my seats and my wife goes to the games with a friend and I try to make 2-3 games a year. But any passion I had for the team itself is long gone, wadded up and tossed in a garbage can about the same time as Jerry Richardson's infamous pie chart. Sure, I consider them the "local" team and I'll always watch and support them, but whether they win or lose is no longer the source of my angst. Instead, I find my feelings are for the players, hoping they will find themselves part of a winning organization at some point in their careers and hoping they realize this is as good as it gets in Charlotte.

I grew up in California as a Raider fan. I had season tickets for them during their Los Angeles Coliseum stay in the 1980's. Their team motto "Commitment to Excellence" was a palpable, real, gut-felt trademark of that team. And Al Davis went a little dementia and had some control issues, but he never sacrificed the quality of the product on the field for his personal or business beliefs like Jerry Richardson did. Yeah, they became a horrible football team, but not because of the GM's marching orders or the owner's unwillingness to spend some money, but because the owner was perhaps too bold and willing to make the big splash.

I don't think Jerry Richardson or the rest of the ownership group cares how many games this team wins. The seats are sold, the income is guaranteed and his "forever grateful to the NFL" routine carries on while the vast majority of Carolina Panther football fans still want to believe that winning is more important than making money, even if losing makes you just as much money. Why try?

[Vampire the buffet slayer]

I'm a football fan, but no longer sure of being a Panther fan.

Deuces.

[usmcpanthers]

Moving would do it for me, ive hated the hornets since they went to new orleans

[Brokenbad]

The Panthers would no longer have to exist as a team for me to stop being a fan, OR move to a different city with the Panther name, in which case I would still be a Panther fan,UNLESS a new team not named "Panthers" came to Carolina.

[Happy Panther]

Moving.

But my degree of fandom can change. Could go from hardcore to casual. Appears no real desire to make the moves to be a legit contender.....if it continues and Cam says enough is enough and gets his way to get out of Carolina......I will probably tone it down and devote my fandom elsewhere (another team I support not in the NFL)

I'll go to games forever because I have two boys but I might lose interest if we keep having bad/mediocre seasons.

It's a big investment to take your family to a season of games.

[Happy Panther]

If anyone asks me who I root for I will always answer panthers. Would never root for another team unless they moved.

Sure as hell don't root for the hornets

[SCMunnerlyn1]

If the team wasn't something to do with Carolina I would be pulling for the Bengals instead. That's the literal only thing that puts the panthers over the bengals is the hometown love.

[Lumps]

Only one thing: JR becomming immortal.

Really that is it. I may live on the west coast but I'll prefer my panthers here and will still be a huge fan. I am loyal to the team not the state they're in.

[markbm62]

If I was sexually assaulted by the whole team then I would stop being a fan.

Have an idea you would become a stalker after that :rolleyes:

[panthers34]

I live in New York and i'm some how a fan and always will be

[Gin and Juice]

If they moved out of Carolina then Ravens fan I will be! But in the meantime, fug the Ravens!

[FastNFurious]

Am a FORMER Browns fan... I bled brown blood until Modell moved the team to Baltimore.... THAT is what it would take

[Fan01]

Like everyone else has said it would be hard if the Panthers moved and were not longer the "Carolina" Panthers.

The other thing that no one has mentioned is if Jerry Richardson dies and whomever takes over as new owner is a total tool. I'd have trouble rooting for a team that had an owner I hated or I thought was just out to make money.