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What makes the Huddle so special?

Dex

By Dex,
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goodoleboy Newbie

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6 minutes ago, mbarbour21 said:

I agree that there is something different about the huddle. My dad passed away two days after we beat Seattle in the playoffs. I wanted to get on here and tell you guys. I didn't because I didn't want to make a thread about it. But he was a Panthers fan and we bonded over watching them on Sundays. I hate he missed the NFC Championship game and will miss the Super Bowl. COPD and Emphysema took his life at age 57. Even though I haven't met any of you, y'all are like family, even when you blast my posts/threads.....ESPECIALLY when you do. Lol! Really though, the family vibe goes further than just the team. I believe it includes the fans, thanks Igo. I love this site. 

Sorry for your loss.

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Jase Apprentice

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17 minutes ago, Mrs Pantherfan said:

I'm pretty awesome too, ya know!...and special...and funny...big boobs...

Yeah, yeah, your boobs are spectacular, blah blah, we never got to see the rest of that tattoo before you got it zapped. Now back to the bro love. Who wants to spoon?

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Jase Apprentice

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1 minute ago, CCS said:

Before here I posted on Steve Reed's Carolina Growl forum. It had truly awful management and moderation. Steve was constantly changing things so the forum would go down constantly and the moderators were stereotypical nazi mods. During the 2008 draft I was talking to one of the mods on yahoo messenger and he was openly talking about how much he hated black people and would ban them any chance he got. Seriously. Steve didn't really put much thought in to who was moderating for him, he would just give it to random people and he'd never be around to see how they were using their power. 

 

This place's ownership and moderation is top notch. It also produces way more original content than most fan forums. That's why it's the best.

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Proudiddy Grand Master

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For all that can go wrong here at the huddle, it really is more than just a message board.

I hadn't been to a game since our inaugural season and things would always fall apart when i tried to get back as an adult.  I have four children and not a ton of disposable income, and so it takes a huge investment to make the 3 hour trip both in regards to time and money, anytime i've went.  When i shared this with @icege last year, he offered up a free ticket to the chiefs preseason game.  Randomly, a night or so later, long time huddle buddy @Kurb pm'd me, not knowing @icege already sent me his ticket, and asked if i wanted his tickets (two of them), because huddle overlord @Jeremy Igo was having Kurb with him down on the field, lol.

So, i forwarded icege's single ticket to @bleys, and i met kurb on his way to charlotte for his tickets and told him, "man, it's like one of those unsolved mysteries where you meet your long lost brother," lol, then used the second ticket to take my son with me to the game...  something my dad had never done, nor cared to do.  It was a proud moment.

Yes, it was a preseason game, but it was special to me, just the same.  I meant to post the pics and share my story, but i never got around to it on here.  I shared it with fellow huddlers i'm friends with on facebook.  It was an amazing night.  And what were the odds, my first game attending as an adult, with my son enjoying his first game ever, that the hype crew came out in the upper level with the t-shirt cannon...  in any and all games i've ever went to, by and large, the uppers are severely neglected.  And regardless, even if they aren't, the odds of catching anything from them is like what?  50 in 50,000 per game, give or take?  They pull out the t-shirt cannon, aim it up above where i'm sitting, probably to the attractive young ladies behind me several rows up...  they launch it.  I fully extend, hands in a perfectly formed diamond, and as if i'm hauling in a laser from Cam, dragging my toes on the ground below, i snag the shirt out of the air and tuck it away.  I'm sure i took it way too seriously, but then the guy's comment behind me only fed my over imaginary ego - "damn, he looked like he knew what he was doing!  Did you see that form?" Lol.  So, me being proudiddy, wearing my black smitty jersey to the game in the immediate preseason following his release, perhaps subconsciously out of protest and in large part because i had no other jersey at the time,  turned around and said, "you see the jersey, i had to do it, had to represent," we laugh, and he points to his Cam jersey and says but check this out, i reply, "no doubt, that's THE man, right there!"  We high five and laugh and go back to watching the game.  My son was amazed.  So was i.  I literally snagged a shirt that was meant for 3 rows up that i shouldnt have caught.

As we go to leave the game, our fans were completely undressing the few chief fans straggling about in embarassment.  My son and i stopped to take some pics of him in front of the panther statues.  It was a dream come true for me.  Despite being in charlotte several times prior to that game, i had never been able to go to the stadium, usually because i was strapped for time.  I was in awe.  But, then i saw Sam Mills statue...  you can think it lame, but i had to collect myself.  This man that i used to draw pictures of in class, that represented all the underdogs in the world to me, immortalized in bronze.  My eyes began to well up.  I had to take a deep breath and hope the process would pull the tears back far enough that i would escape without them rushing over the edge of my eyelids.  I don't care man...  i told my son all about him.  To me, it was like meeting him without ever meeting him because of all that statue embodies and what Sam meant to me and Panther fans everywhere.

Long story short, the huddle is a family and my story demonstrates how giving and kind many of our huddlers are...  so many paid it forward in that instance, and i couldn't be more thankful.

 

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