Cardiac Cats

[Happy Panther]

At Super Bowl XXXVIII, neither team was able to put up points in the first quarter, and the game remained scoreless until near the end of the first half. However, 24 points were scored in the last 5 minutes of the first half, and the score going into halftime was 14–10 New England. The third quarter was also scoreless and it wasn't until late in the game that things heated up once again. The teams traded leads numerous times in the highest-scoring fourth quarter in Super Bowl history, including setting a record when Jake Delhomme hit Muhsin Muhammad for an 85-yard touchdown pass early in the fourth quarter. That pass made the score 22–21, Carolina and went down in the record books as the longest offensive play in Super Bowl history. After New England responded with a touchdown of their own and a 2-point conversion to make it 29–22, Carolina would storm right back to tie the game with a touchdown pass to Ricky Proehl with 1:08 left in regulation, opening the possibility to the first overtime game in Super Bowl history. However, John Kasay's kickoff went out of bounds, giving the Patriots the ball on their own 40-yard line. Adam Vinatieri, who had won Super Bowl XXXVI two years earlier on a last-second field goal, repeated his heroics, connecting on a 41-yarder with four seconds left, even though he had already missed two field goals in the game. This gave the Patriots their second Super Bowl win in three years. The multiple close games, won either in overtime or with a slim margin, gave way to a new nickname for the Panthers: the "Cardiac Cats."

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Do people use this term??

[John Fox]

Yes

[Happy Panther]

real people?

[Skew]

It was on the beer cups at the stadium that year.

[Brooklyn Bully]

Was used well before we ever came along but I hate the nickname. It makes us seem inferior, like we're underdogs. You'll never be a major player if you think that way. Hell, they call the Hurricanes the Cardiac Canes.

[rayzor]

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Do people use this term??

you must be new.

[carpanfan96]

you must be new.

I was thinking the same thing, that Saying was everywhere that year.

[joemac]

must be a fuging noob...

[Jangler]

Car.....de....ack C....cats? Never heard it.

[Saint J]

I bet he's heard of smash and dash though.

[Happy Panther]

you must be new.

I am. I have been out of the country for 6 years.

[Seamonk]

It still holds true, several of our games still came down to the wire last year. Unlike 2003, we either had to, or just did, win by touchdowns or by simply running out the clock instead of the FG theme from '03

[CarolinaPride74]

ummmmm..... yes!