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I just realized: I have no idea where the name "Panthers" came from

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L-TownCat Grand Master

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haha i came to reference this movie.

a couple of years ago i was in guatemala doing some backpacking with a buddy. we were trekking up some ancient mayan ruins in the jungle and kept hearing these belching, throaty sounds drifting up from the jungle canopy. we spent an hour trying to figure out what it was... our instinct was panthers, but we wondered if it was maybe shitty trucks or some kind of machinery approaching the ruins or doing excavations, or something. it was loud and long end repetitive.

when we quit traipsing on the ruins we ended up at the edge of the jungle where a handful of local guatemalans were pointing up into the trees at a bunch of monkeys. then we heard the noise again and the guatemalans freaked out and backed off. our stupid honkey asses sneaked into the jungle with a rock and a fuging stick while i poked my camera through the leaves trying to get a shot of a real live panther.

about twenty yards into the jungle everything got quiet as poo. monkeys stopped making noises, birds stopped tweeting. we freaked out instinctively for a second, and then the next second we heard a growl to our left, like maybe ten feet away through a dense cluster of shrubbery. it was low and guttural, like an old truck engine running at half idle, the most dangerous thing i've ever heard and the most primal fear/awe i've ever experienced. i swear to god it was like being the australian dude in jurassic park who got blindsided by the raptor. we sneaked backwards ever-so-slowly while sweating rivers and shitting our pants and finally made our escape.

the point of this story is that panthers are clever girls and they will fug up your guatemalan trek in a damn second, and they are easily the most badass mascot. i'll fug up a jet or a bill or a redneck steeler or whatever, but panthers make me poo my pants.

I'm not a smart man Jenny, but I know what a panther does...

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Ha! I've feared for my life plenty of times...granted never from a big cat. The point is history has shown that men with guns beat all animals. Individual instances sure, any given Sunday, but in the end men with guns win. The Titan is akin to a god and would potentially beat every mascot. Things like jets, while inanimate, certainly couldn't be defeated by animals but one could argue they couldn't win either.

As for groups of men with swords, Bucs, Raiders and Vikings (you could loosely argue 49ers but meh) have also shown historic dominance over animals. It's not like we didn't start our dominion over the animal world once guns were invented.

In the end, I think the Panther is a fine mascot but maybe low end of top tier among the animal mascots...which are already lower tier mascots.

I see us as 14-14-3.

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Ha! I've feared for my life plenty of times...granted never from a big cat. The point is history has shown that men with guns beat all animals. Individual instances sure, any given Sunday, but in the end men with guns win. The Titan is akin to a god and would potentially beat every mascot. Things like jets, while inanimate, certainly couldn't be defeated by animals but one could argue they couldn't win either.

As for groups of men with swords, Bucs, Raiders and Vikings (you could loosely argue 49ers but meh) have also shown historic dominance over animals. It's not like we didn't start our dominion over the animal world once guns were invented.

In the end, I think the Panther is a fine mascot but maybe low end of top tier among the animal mascots...which are already lower tier mascots.

I see us as 14-14-3.

Yeah, well I see us as 53 T'Challas so your argument is invalid. 

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then we would have had a legit reason to keep that southern flag flying! we missed our opportunity to be the next Redskins.

Ha! Indeed. Lots of stuff could have worked though. (even though, just to be clear, I love the Panthers brand, logo, colors, etc) But we could have gotten away with lots of historical stuff. Something aerial for the first in flight thing(just not jets). Anything nautical: pirates, commodores, blockade runners(again, redskins-ish), destroyers, Ironclads(again...), dreadnoughts(bad ars), frigates... 

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How old was Mark Richardson in 1989? Like mid-20s? Trying to picture it: Some random family dinner, new college grad Mark Richardson threw out the name "Panthers" and Jerry liked it and it's just been like that ever since.

 

I ask the question because I've been trying to think of what a possible MLS or MLB Charlotte team would be named.

What's Mark Richardson been doing since Jerry fired him? Anyone know?

About two years ago, a real estate company I work for met with Mark Richardson to look at purchasing some real estate in Myrtle Beach. As the story goes, Mark shows up for a business meeting in shorts flip flops and a Hawaiian Shirt with a fedora. There is more to this story however I can not discuss as it reveals identities with my company. Its pretty funny though.

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teeray Rookie

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Is this the spin-off of Snakes on a Plane?

yeah exept in this one the panthers win

About two years ago, a real estate company I work for met with Mark Richardson to look at purchasing some real estate in Myrtle Beach. As the story goes, Mark shows up for a business meeting in shorts flip flops and a Hawaiian Shirt with a fedora. There is more to this story however I can not discuss as it reveals identities with my company. Its pretty funny though.

so basically he rolled in looking like Bray Wyatt?

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Depends on the kind of bear. Brown bear or black bear? I'd take the Panther. Sun Bear or Grizzly? That's an L.

The Chicago Bears Bear is some chain smoking, polish sausage eating, scooter riding zoo bear. I think the Panther gets a blowout W.
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