Yeah that is like the last time I went to a NFL game. Panthers v. Foreskins 2008 or maybe 09. Wild melees broke our all over, I was in the upper deck and saw three large brawls errupt and in the concourse going out at games end things got a little heated because the skins pissed the game away, all of this over two teams that ended up terrible. Now up in DC the Panthers are just another team. Down in the Carolinas there is out and out animosity between the fan bases. This was staunch Skins country all thru my youth, we got them every week on TV, the Colts also had a huge following as they were the AFC offering, back then you were on one side or the other. Whatever feelings anyone around here had for the colts disappeared with the move to Indy. But the skins good or bad were always on, one year someone tried to supplant the skins with the Bartkowski era falcons during the time they were making noise. that lasted about 2 weeks before resuming the status quo, if for no other reason then it pissed off the stations morning show host who was a complete Redskins honk, and dammit if Lee "get off my lawn" Kinard wanted the skins you were getting the skins. Funny thing is, he blew out the head of the sports department personally over the air about it.
Actually all Panther fans are soft fans or fake tough guy posers. I have never seen a Panther fan get truly upset, except for the guy who sucker punched that old eggles fan this past season, but he was a Eggles fan, by rule your supposed to punch them. Dude could have been 98 and wheeled in on a gurney, slug the miserable bastard. And now those sleazeballs are world champs, I tell you one man who cracked a smile and a snappy retort to the Eggles bringing it home, and that would be the man who last quarter backed them to a Championship
https://youtu.be/ToIVpUL_mYs now Van Brocklin was at the tale end of his career with Philly when he willed them to a title, and though it is one of the most unlikely and unique events in NFL history the real mark one can never underappreciate is the fact that he STILL owns the record for most passing yards in a NFL game as he threw for 554yds against the NY Yanks in 1950. Of course if Brady had somehow completed that final pass he would have taken over that record. BTW, the Yanks moved to Dallas in 1952, after bombing there they went to Baltimore and became the Colts.
Alas we pine over a dying sport. We will look back 20 years from now and I think history will show that the Eggles win in 1960 really was the coming out party for the NFL's first great dynasty in the Lombardi Packers, and I think this one will bookend what may well be the final great dynasty in these Patriots.
Last edited by Coach Lambini at 2/14/2018 9:10:44 PM