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Charlotte Panthers?


CLEARHOT

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Might as well be, neither NC or SC will ever fully get behind the Panthers. A lot of them are on the Cowboys, Skins, & Steelers wagons. And I'm not talking bout just old people, I know plenty young people who aint been watching football as long as the Panthers been around that root for those teams, and they've lived in NC they whole life! Those franchises have 14 Super Bowl titles between them. Panthers have their work cut out for them to get people to overlook that and bandwagon them. Their base and core of their fans will always be in the Charlotte-Meck area, so why front? Its a Charlotte franchise.

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It is a young franchise....everyone over 35 was raised on another team.

No point limiting the reach appeal of a team. Charlotte the city is more a of transplant city anyway so it makes complete sense to reach out to all the Carolina's. I also don't here people in Foxboro, Mass bitching bc there team is the NE Patriots.

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http://www.bizjourna...ale.html?page=4 According to Erik Spanberg (Charlotte Business Journal), the idea was floated by two city council members during a meeting with the Panthers, after the state turned the Cats request for state tax dollars down...the Panthers replied with...uh...NO.

About half way down on page 4 of the article.

Born and lived in Charlotte for 33 years.....I live in South Florida now but the Panthers will always be my team.

Charlotte is not big enough or established enough as a sports town to carry the name. The Panthers spent summers in SC and over 70% of the fan base resides outside of Charlotte. Changing the name would be the DUMBEST move Richardson has ever made. He may be stupid, but he is not dumb. This will not happen. He is all about the $ and knows this would be an enormous financial mistake.

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