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Carolina Panthers, Cam Newton, Empty Seats, Social Media, and Branding

Jeremy Igo

By Jeremy Igo,
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Mr. Scot Grand Master

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I said this elsewhere...

What I always found hysterically funny was that one of the reasons people didn't like Jake was because he was a gunslinger. They kept begging for a "franchise quarterback" like Brees or Brady.

Well we ultimately got a franchise quarterback...who's a gunslinger :)

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Anyways, it'll be nice if Cam makes it back for this season. I do wish, if he needs a surgery, that he would just get it done with. Our path to the playoffs is rather unlikely at this point. The question is would you rather make it to the playoffs with a wild card berth and keep Ron or barely miss it but at least get a new coach out of the ordeal? Depends if you're more worried about the now > the future.

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4 hours ago, JARROD said:

I live in Orlando. I hear quite a bit about Cam Newton from people I meet.

What do they say about him?  (Cam that is, not my buddy)

What area of town are you living in?  Parts of Orlando are wonderful.

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I think cost has a lot to do with the empty seats.  Tickets on the secondary market for Panther games are absurdly overpriced.  The only ones that aren’t ridiculously expensive are last row, upper deck, in the corner.  For that view, and all the other costs to go with it, it’s better on TV.

I tried to buy a couple tickets during the Panthers Pulse pre-sale last year when we opened with the Cowboys.  I kept clicking refresh, and there were ZERO tickets available at 8 AM or 9 AM, whenever it opened.

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11 hours ago, Doc Holiday said:

I always went out of my way back in the Day to watch Peyton Manning, or Brett Favre (when it didnt interfere with watching the Panthers). but I was never what I would call a fan of them or their team, I just knew if they were involved chances are I was going to see a good game. 

Exactly.  I don't play fantasy football because I would only pick/want Carolina players on my squad.  I don't care/follow other teams (at all/enough) to bother or know who to select. But if some other game is exciting enough to watch, I'll keep an eye on it while I'm watching Carolina play.

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4 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

I'm not gonna feel bad if we win without Cam Newton.

I'm not gonna feel bad if we win without Christian McCaffrey.

I'm not gonna feel bad if we win without Luke Kuechly, Greg Olsen, James Bradberry, Shaq Thompson or pretty much anybody else.

I wish all of those guys the best, but the bottom line is I want to see the Panthers win. Who they do that with isn't really a big priority to me.

This wholeheartedly.

When we lost Brees earlier this year, our fanbase would've been absolutely over the moon if you told us we were going to go at least 3-3 over the 6-game stretch we were supposed be without him; even more so if we knew two of those would be without Kamara.

If you would've told us that we wouldn't lose a game in that span, we'd be just as excited but probably be thinking you just smoked crack.

Not one Saints fan that I've seen in that span was legitimately bothered by the fact that we were winning games without Brees. Of course there was a lot of cautious optimism, especially after seeing Bridgewater getting a full game under his belt in Seattle, but not any I seen were hoping Brees would comeback much earlier and possibly risk re-injury just to get Bridgewater off the field.

In fact it was the opposite as the game against Arizona approached, a strong contingent of our fans were in favor of Brees sitting that last game (which was right at 6 weeks post-surgery and pushing the earliest of his timetable for return) because they viewed the game as a more than winnable one with what we've seen from Teddy for the last 5 games. While I wasn't in that camp, I also wasn't in the camp of "Anyone but Teddy" camp either, I simply felt Brees knew his body better than anyone and if he could grip and rip a regulation sized ball without fear of re-injury or tearing his hand where the stitches were ~4 weeks earlier, then why not let him knock some rust off a team with a horrible secondary before starting our divisional slate after the bye.

Y'all situation is slightly similar, but where it forks off from ours is the "No One but Cam" group seems to rather losing without Cam than to win with Allen and that's just disappointing. While I'm an outsider and a division rival fan, I can see those people are putting the cart before the horse and will more than likely disappear when y'all move on from Cam or they'll stick around lurking for the opportunity to say "hah, I told you so" the minute the Panthers struggle and/or Cam succeeds with his new team showing they were likely never even Panther fans to begin with, only Cam fans.

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