Charlotte is ready...

[CLTPanther]

Don't google anything with SF and pride in the same sentence

[KendrickPanther]

My sister had the audacity to ask me if I was wearing Black and Blue today. I wear my Panthers jacket everyday in the Winter...

[TheMaulClaw]

I'm in Fayetteville and there has been a decent amount of buzz about the game around here. Pumped for Sunday!

Originally from Fayetteville.  Reilly Rd FTW

[Montsta]

To see our competition I Googled San Francisco Pride.

I don't recommend doing that.

Sent from the Carolina Huddle App

I'm not saying...I'm just saying.

[L-TownCat]

It was mandatory today for everyone under my employ to wear a jersey. Everyone listened except one. I hired my mother to do the accounting for my company. She showed up not wearing a jersey as I had demanded, so I sent her home.

My house, my rules MOM!! GTFO!!

[Chaos]

Totally serious question: five years ago we also finished 12-4, won the division, got the 2 seed and first round bye.

With all that being the same this year, I just don't feel that the excitement and energy level was this high before our game. Is it because we played a team we thought we were significantly better than in Arizona? Is it because we had been to the post season more recently so we had more of an expectation to be there?

Maybe as a fan base we are more determined to not take this playoff appearance for granted? I don't know.

[Mr. Scot]

My house, my rules MOM!!

How many years have you been waiting to say that? :lol:

[panthers90]

Totally serious question: five years ago we also finished 12-4, won the division, got the 2 seed and first round bye.

With all that being the same this year, I just don't feel that the excitement and energy level was this high before our game. Is it because we played a team we thought we were significantly better than in Arizona? Is it because we had been to the post season more recently so we had more of an expectation to be there?

Maybe as a fan base we are more determined to not take this playoff appearance for granted? I don't know.

 

I think it has a lot to do with a lot of the fans are  21+ up now (or just adults in general) Given that the team started in 95, say you were between 4-10 that year (like I would guess a lot of us were), you're now between like 22 to 28, so you're making your own money to be able to go to games, buy gear, DRINK, etc.

The crowd is getting younger as the team gets older if that makes sense.

[KendrickPanther]

Totally serious question: five years ago we also finished 12-4, won the division, got the 2 seed and first round bye.

With all that being the same this year, I just don't feel that the excitement and energy level was this high before our game. Is it because we played a team we thought we were significantly better than in Arizona? Is it because we had been to the post season more recently so we had more of an expectation to be there?

Maybe as a fan base we are more determined to not take this playoff appearance for granted? I don't know.

 

This team has something the 2008 team did not....personality. Just think of all the stories around this team....Thomas Davis, Cam Newton, Ice Up Son, Two Claps and a Ric Flair, Mike "you have to play us" Mitchell, the Kraken,Killt it No Spoon, Luke Kuechly, "I guess he didn't read the scouting report", Riverboat Ron, I have never seen a Panthers team this interesting to follow.

[Zaximus]

Totally serious question: five years ago we also finished 12-4, won the division, got the 2 seed and first round bye.

With all that being the same this year, I just don't feel that the excitement and energy level was this high before our game. Is it because we played a team we thought we were significantly better than in Arizona? Is it because we had been to the post season more recently so we had more of an expectation to be there?

Maybe as a fan base we are more determined to not take this playoff appearance for granted? I don't know.

 

It was still pretty crazy that year, the game was electric too, well until it went downhill.  But from the beginning and when we ran in that first TD it was crazy.  

[KendrickPanther]

I think it has a lot to do with a lot of the fans are  21+ up now (or just adults in general) Given that the team started in 95, say you were between 4-10 that year (like I would guess a lot of us were), you're now between like 22 to 28, so you're making your own money to be able to go to games, buy gear, DRINK, etc.

The crowd is getting younger as the team gets older if that makes sense.

 

Yes this is true but it goes a step further, the 25+ crowd is having children old enough to follow the team. My nieces dress up in the jerseys I have bought them and play football in the living room. You have fathers taking their 8 year old boys to the games. We are birthing second generation Panthers fans.

[Darth Biscuit]

Also social media has made it easier to talk about and organize stuff like black Friday and the rally.

[Mr. Scot]

Also social media has made it easier to talk about and organize stuff like black Friday and the rally.

...and 'Free Sean Payton' protests.

(okay, maybe not those)

[Go To Girl]

I still think a win this Sunday will be a turning point for this Franchise. My memory may have escaped me, but this year just seems different from '03, '05 and '08. The amount of support I have seen amazes me.

 

This year reminds me of '03 - very much so.  That's why I really think this year is going to be so special.  Scratching and clawing so many games - it's the same.  And the excitement in the city .... the same.  The main difference is you had the Hope Stout stuff going on then which added to it before.  But this is still good.