Surviving the Cut

Unread post by **biggie** » Thu Sep 08, 2016 10:20 am

I'm loyal to who I've pulled for my entire life. The Panthers starting during high school wasn't going to change that. I liked the Panthers as a 2nd team until I went to a couple games and dealt with some fans.

BUTCH1991 · Unread post by **BUTCH1991** » Thu Sep 08, 2016 10:52 am

biggie wrote:I'm loyal to who I've pulled for my entire life. The Panthers starting during high school wasn't going to change that. I liked the Panthers as a 2nd team until I went to a couple games and dealt with some fans.

Try dealing with Cowboy fans. Dumbest fan base in America

Just ask Mark Packer, he always promoted that on his radio show when I used to listen to him.

bcoach · Unread post by **bcoach** » Thu Sep 08, 2016 11:43 am

goapps wrote:If Armanti had played QB for the Gamecocks, who did recruit him, or any other FBS school he would have likely gotten a shot at QB in the NFL. My understanding is that some of the teams who had him on their draft radar did plan to give him a look at QB, unfortunately the Panthers were not one of those teams. I know there are many, many Panther fans on this board but I lost any interest that I ever had in seeing the Panthers win anything as a result of Armanti’s tenure with them. I know that the main culprit was John “I’d rather go with Brian St. Pierre who hasn’t taken a snap in two years than give Edwards a chance” Fox and he is no longer with the team. The reason I no longer pull for the Panthers is the way many of their fans trashed him from day one. It got to where I could not even go on the Panther message boards due to all the hateful comments directed at AE and in many cases at the Appalachian football program. I know all fan bases have their share of idiots and uninformed dolts and I know I should just get over it and move on but I can’t. One reason is that a few of those AE haters are people I know personally (not ASU folks of course) and they still bring up the "wasted draft pick" to me from time to time as if he were the only pick they ever made that did not pan out.

People really need to let go of this. The gamecocks told him he would NOT be playing QB so that kills the first theory. Secondly every other team has had the chance to sign him and try him at QB and that has not happened. He was a great QB for us. None better. He was just never going to be an NFL QB. That in no way diminishes what he did for us. We may never see another one like him. Lets remember him as a great collage player and not worry about what happened after.

ASUMountaineer · Unread post by **ASUMountaineer** » Thu Sep 08, 2016 12:30 pm

I get people who are loyal to the team they've been fans of forever. What I don't understand are those people who actively root against the home team. That just makes no sense to me.

WVAPPeer · Unread post by **WVAPPeer** » Thu Sep 08, 2016 12:33 pm

I didn't say I did not also pull for the panthers ---

ukappfan · Unread post by **ukappfan** » Thu Sep 08, 2016 12:40 pm

I have grown up a die hard Packers fan. I will root for the panthers however as long as they don't play the Packers. Haha

TheMoody1 · Unread post by **TheMoody1** » Thu Sep 08, 2016 12:43 pm

ASUMountaineer wrote:I get people who are loyal to the team they've been fans of forever. What I don't understand are those people who actively root against the home team. That just makes no sense to me.

It would make sense if you grew up a Falcons fan like me.

Black Saturday · Unread post by **Black Saturday** » Thu Sep 08, 2016 3:29 pm

ASUMountaineer wrote:I get people who are loyal to the team they've been fans of forever. What I don't understand are those people who actively root against the home team. That just makes no sense to me.

I root 24/7/365 against the TarHoles.

Rekdiver · Unread post by **Rekdiver** » Thu Sep 08, 2016 3:38 pm

biggie wrote:I'm loyal to who I've pulled for my entire life. The Panthers starting during high school wasn't going to change that. I liked the Panthers as a 2nd team until I went to a couple games and dealt with some fans.

Yeah...like having opposing fans wear their jerseys in the middle of the APP tudent section or a Stink fan yelling in my section....It aint gonna happen...........

Stay home and watch your team on TV if you don't like Panthers fans getting on you.

I finally told the guy who sits behind me if he was going to let Falcon fans sit there and disrespect MY Team then they would not be made to feel welcome. They came one more time and my entire section ran them off.

manonabuffalo · Unread post by **manonabuffalo** » Thu Sep 08, 2016 4:57 pm

Go Panthers! Live and die Carolina.

Always pull for the home state team.

ericsaid · Unread post by **ericsaid** » Thu Sep 08, 2016 5:20 pm

DaphneUrquhart wrote:
Rekdiver wrote:You are only ignorant if you live here and pull for the Cowboys packers or Steelers
Count me ignorant then. I've been a Packers fan since Bart Starr played in Green Bay ... before expansion brought football to anywhere close to the southeast.

For the record, I do not count either Washington DC or Baltimore (Colts when I was a kid; Ravens now) as being in the southeast. Teams in Atlanta, Miami, Tampa, New Orleans, Charlotte, and Jacksonville all arrived on the scene after I became a Packers fan. End of history lesson ... I'm taking my ignorant self back to work.

I was four when the Carolina Panthers were born (actually 2 since it was announced in 93'). I suppose I am likely the first generation of Die-Hard Panther's fans and it is difficult to constantly see Charlotte overrun with opposing teams fans. That said, I've never been happier to see the look on Cheesehead faces than I was last season.

EastHallApp · Unread post by **EastHallApp** » Thu Sep 08, 2016 6:01 pm

I was a senior in HS during the Panthers' first season. Previously had kinda sorta cheered for the Dolphins and Redskins before settling on the Bills. Dropped them like a bad habit in '95 and have been all Panthers since, for better or worse.

Unread post by **biggie** » Thu Sep 08, 2016 6:19 pm

Rekdiver wrote:
biggie wrote:I'm loyal to who I've pulled for my entire life. The Panthers starting during high school wasn't going to change that. I liked the Panthers as a 2nd team until I went to a couple games and dealt with some fans.
Yeah...like having opposing fans wear their jerseys in the middle of the APP tudent section or a Stink fan yelling in my section....It aint gonna happen...........

Stay home and watch your team on TV if you don't like Panthers fans getting on you.
I finally told the guy who sits behind me if he was going to let Falcon fans sit there and disrespect MY Team then they would not be made to feel welcome. They came one more time and my entire section ran them off.

I don't talk trash I'm just there to watch a game. The panther fans however were not so calm. You'd think a drunk 140lb guy wouldn't want to try to anger a person like me. But happened multiple times.

ASUMountaineer · Unread post by **ASUMountaineer** » Fri Sep 09, 2016 9:05 am

WVAPPeer wrote:I didn't say I did not also pull for the panthers ---

I didn't say that you root against the Panthers, but there are a lot of people in NC and SC who actively root against their home team.

ASUMountaineer · Unread post by **ASUMountaineer** » Fri Sep 09, 2016 9:06 am

TheMoody1 wrote:
ASUMountaineer wrote:I get people who are loyal to the team they've been fans of forever. What I don't understand are those people who actively root against the home team. That just makes no sense to me.
It would make sense if you grew up a Falcons fan like me.

Yuck! Nasty, dirty birds!!

ASUMountaineer · Unread post by **ASUMountaineer** » Fri Sep 09, 2016 9:07 am

Black Saturday wrote:
ASUMountaineer wrote:I get people who are loyal to the team they've been fans of forever. What I don't understand are those people who actively root against the home team. That just makes no sense to me.

I root 24/7/365 against the TarHoles.

As any self-respecting adult should. I hope no one considers UNCheat to be the "home team!!" I was in Chapel Hill for work last week...it was awful.

MtnDevil95 · Unread post by **MtnDevil95** » Fri Sep 09, 2016 9:27 am

It's a unique situation for many of us in our 40's and over, Hell even some of you down in your 30's. We grew up as fans for other NFL teams and I do believe that for most fans (not all, but most) the professional team you connect with during your formative sports years (say 10-18 or 20) are the teams you remain loyal to for the rest of your life. For me it was spending Sunday nights in the car with my dad up on the top of a NC mountain listening to a crackling AM station from Green Bay Wisconsin call the Packers games. For most of my friends it was the Redskins as the only game on local TV, or the Cowboys because your enemy was a Redskins fan . . . admit it, in NC in the 80's most kids were either Skins, or Cowboy fans. . .

Things have changed. Carolina has our own team now, I'm still a Packers fan, but my nephews will grow up Panther's fans. Cary being the Containment Area for Relocated Yankees will be a hotbed of Giants fan for a while, but the advent of DirecTV NFL Sunday Ticket and streaming games on the internet have diluted the geographical access to teams a bit. I think today's fans follow teams based on location (Panthers being the local team), based on parents loyalty (me and the Packers), and based on players (there's more than a few Seattle fans around these parts, Russell Wilson much?).

WVAPPeer · Unread post by **WVAPPeer** » Fri Sep 09, 2016 9:29 am

ASUMountaineer wrote:
WVAPPeer wrote:I didn't say I did not also pull for the panthers ---
I didn't say that you root against the Panthers, but there are a lot of people in NC and SC who actively root against their home team.

Just wanted to make sure you my young friend had not forgotten who I am???

ASUMountaineer · Unread post by **ASUMountaineer** » Fri Sep 09, 2016 9:35 am

WVAPPeer wrote:
ASUMountaineer wrote:
WVAPPeer wrote:I didn't say I did not also pull for the panthers ---
I didn't say that you root against the Panthers, but there are a lot of people in NC and SC who actively root against their home team.
Just wanted to make sure you my young friend had not forgotten who I am???

I could never forget El Presidente! My dad grew up a Skins fan, even went to school with Jeff Bostic, but once we got the Panthers he switched. He's a native North Carolinian first and foremost. I was 12 when the Panthers were awarded to Charlotte, and became a Panthers fan. Before that, I more rooted for players than teams, as there was no local team.

S.Lewis15 · Unread post by **S.Lewis15** » Fri Sep 09, 2016 10:09 am

Growing up in Northeastern NC, no one around here was/is a real Panthers fan.

Geographically, I grew up closer to Washington DC and Baltimore, MD than I did to Charlotte. Ravens fan first, I don't ever see a circumstance where I would pull for the Panthers.

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