Did Tepper ixnay #keeppounding chant?

[Moo Daeng]

5 minutes ago, Tbe said:

I’m continually stunned by the enormous amount of projecting you people do. This thread has created an entire narrative that Tepper hates the KP chant and wants to replace it to sell ads. 
 

There is a saying.

” Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.“

If you’ve ever worked in a large org and made decision that seemed small but blew up in your face then you know what I mean.

If there is evidence Tepper called someone and said ‘I hate the chant’ then let’s see it and respond accordingly. 
 

Otherwise this is just fantasy/conspiracy talk.

Calm down.

It's an ignorant mob itching to bring out the pitchforks every day. There's no concern for understanding, only reaction. 

[SizzleBuzz]

57 minutes ago, Cookie Lyon said:

some food concessions were closed

I went to Harris-Teeter last night and there were new signs on the doors saying Teeter will now close at 9pm every night vs. the long-standing 11pm traditional close.

Food service businesses of all kinds and everywhere are having serious staffing issues.  Can't get a sandwich at Pasta & Provisions after 3pm anymore...

...it's not a Tepper thing.

 

58 minutes ago, Cookie Lyon said:

another about the TopCats performance

WGAF?

 

59 minutes ago, Cookie Lyon said:

saw some complaints about the players intros being out of sync

Ditto.

[MasterAwesome]

2 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

It's not a rivalry because it's no contest. The "rivalry" attitude comes almost entirely from the SC side of the border. It's like the UNC/NCSU rivalry. Of course UNC fans want to beat state, but to state it's their everything. If they beat UNC it was a successful season.

Yeah now there's an analogy I can empathize with. 

Still though, in my personal experience across the border I've never gotten the impression that anyone here gives much thought to NC in general.  I mean I tell everyone I'm from Charlotte and I've never seen anyone viscerally retract in disgust lol.  But hey that's just my flimsy anecdotal evidence so I'll accept what appears to be the consensus opinion here.

[Moo Daeng]

4 minutes ago, MasterAwesome said:

Yeah now there's an analogy I can empathize with. 

Still though, in my personal experience across the border I've never gotten the impression that anyone here gives much thought to NC in general.  I mean I tell everyone I'm from Charlotte and I've never seen anyone viscerally retract in disgust lol.  But hey that's just my flimsy anecdotal evidence so I'll accept what appears to be the consensus opinion here.

As someone whos lived in both I agree. The rivalry seems to have been made up here. 

If anything my friends from SC just think of NC as the state with inferior football. SC is more aligned with Georgia than NC if anything.

Edited September 16, 2021 by Moo Daeng

[Monrowed]

Folks, I was thinking about this and trying to consider all possibilities for a reason as to why Tepper would agree to removing a known symbol of unity for the game day experience.

I don’t think that it would be something that anyone would consider doing on purpose, or permanently especially since it is a cadence that has special meaning to the team.

 The only other reason that I I could come up with is that perhaps Tepper has some issues with ED and every time he hears the chant, it speaks to a very personal issue in his life.

[RenoCarolina]

https://theathletic.com/2828732/2021/09/15/person-what-happened-to-the-keep-pounding-chant-for-the-panthers-in-week-1-and-will-it-return/

 

31 minutes ago, Tbe said:

I’m continually stunned by the enormous amount of projecting you people do. This thread has created an entire narrative that Tepper hates the KP chant and wants to replace it to sell ads. 
 

There is a saying.

” Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.“

If you’ve ever worked in a large org and made decision that seemed small but blew up in your face then you know what I mean.

If there is evidence Tepper called someone and said ‘I hate the chant’ then let’s see it and respond accordingly. 
 

Otherwise this is just fantasy/conspiracy talk.

Calm down.

Holy cow, there is "projecting" going on involving a message board about an NFL team?  WTF else does any poster on here have to do if not projecting or complaining about projecting while indeed projecting?   

And whether the call is stupidity or malice or even a combination of both it is certainly a relevant talking point.  What is wrong with this board where so much energy is spent certifying which topics are worthy of discussion and which one's are not?

Here is Person's take on it (pay wall)  https://theathletic.com/2828732/2021/09/15/person-what-happened-to-the-keep-pounding-chant-for-the-panthers-in-week-1-and-will-it-return/

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There are a few things in Charlotte that should not be messed with: craft breweries, Bojangles and bankers’ hours.

As for the local football team, at least two things are generally considered sacred — natural grass and anything related to Sam Mills. And in the space of a few months, the Panthers have botched both of them.

On the same day the Panthers played their first regular-season game on artificial turf at Bank of America Stadium, they ditched the coordinated “Keep Pounding” pre-game chant that both fired up the home crowd and paid homage to Mills, the franchise’s only player to have his number (51) retired.

It’s unclear whether it was an oversight by the team’s entertainment division or the Panthers simply decided to do away with what’s become a popular part of the game-day experience. As of Wednesday afternoon, team officials were mum on what happened before Sunday’s opener against the Jets.

Update: A Panthers spokesman said the goal is to have the “Keep Pounding” chant evolve to the point where fans don’t need any prompting to start it. The team plans to coordinate the chant for this week’s game against the Saints, but won’t necessarily do so for every home game.

Edited September 16, 2021 by RenoCarolina

[MasterAwesome]

13 minutes ago, Moo Daeng said:

As someone whos lived in both I agree. The rivalry seems to have been made up here. 

If anything my friends from SC just think of NC as the state with inferior football. SC is more aligned with Georgia than NC if anything.

Yeah that's more my impression as well.  I think there could be some niche rivalries pertaining to specific things (like football as you mentioned, or BBQ as someone else did) but I've never felt there was this overall negative sentiment towards NC as a whole.

[RenoCarolina]

good article by Scott Fowler on the subject as well.

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/scott-fowler/article254278628.html

 

Not sure why they can't put their new mixed reality toy on top of the stadium screen while they help coordinate the Keep Pounding Chant.

 

[raleigh-panther]

I gotta say. Attending home games since 2002,  this opening game this year was a clusterfug 

from police barricades on the roads to trying to get food and there were no condiments for the food if you could get food 

to some of the pregame music with lyrics   little kids shouldn’t be hearing (even I watch my language in stands when kids under 10 are around me)

to the top cats looking like they needed to be on a pole, dancing to some questionable lyrics, again, fine if there aren’t little kids around 

To the lame, obnoxious rally guy’ trying to force people to cheer 

to the PA system being so loud it was deafening and everything everyone else mentioned   I’m not kidding   It was incredibly loud 

net  was not the same at the stadium  it was lacking in class and precision. Some is covid of course but it wasn’t close to the well oiled machine it used to be 

pro sports, it’s the product in the field at the end of if the day but outside of the animated panther and flyover and usual salute to service, more annoying being there than not 

maybe it was just opening day malaise but they did have two preseason games to get this corrected 

[frankw]

1 hour ago, Moo Daeng said:

I'm just about done with any local coverage of the Panthers. First this then now it's on to the end zone paint whining. 

This whining poo is beyond words pathetic.

Every fuging day it's going to be a new  "scandal" to drive easy content and clicks. Rush to judgement gone fuging off the rails and it's about poo that doesn't matter to begin with.

You're still going with this? Get some air.

[raleigh-panther]

http://Panthers won’t commit to chanting ‘Keep Pounding!’ Shout it loud, and they’ll have to https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/scott-fowler/article254278628.html

 

Panthers won’t commit to chanting ‘Keep Pounding!’ Shout it loud, and they’ll have to

 

BY SCOTT FOWLER

[email protected]

3 hours ago

You don’t tug on Superman’s cape. You don’t spit into the wind. And you don’t mess around with Sam, or with the “Keep Pounding” chant.

The Carolina Panthers must return to issuing a prompt every week — from now until forever — to guide their fans into all chanting “Keep” and “Pounding” together. It’s a remarkable scene during every home game, as first one half of Bank of America Stadium yells “Keep” and then waits for the other to respond “Pounding.” The sound rolls back and forth in waves. 

The “Keep Pounding” chant is one of the Panthers’ most beloved traditions, and I can’t imagine why the team ever decided to mess with it. 

 

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But at the season opener in Charlotte on Sunday against the New York Jets, there was no stadium-wide “Keep Pounding” chant. The Panthers still rolled out the oversized “Keep Pounding” drum and still banged it right before kickoff. Sam Mills’ statue still stood outside the stadium. But there was never a time when fans were publicly asked to scream the most famous two words in Carolina history.

 

Why not? The Panthers’ reasoning was tepid.

A team spokesperson told The Observer on Wednesday that the chant was never shown with a video-screen prompt because the Panthers have been experimenting with different game-day experiences. The spokesperson added that fans were always welcome to make the chant spring up organically on their own.

“Keep Pounding is the fans’ chant,” the spokesperson said. “The fans own the chant.”

DAVID T. FOSTER III • [email protected]

The Carolina Panthers honor the phrase “Keep Pounding” on the drum that is banged before every game. drummer Jan Kuhn takes practice swings prior to the start of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs Carolina Panthers game at Bank of America Stadium on Monday, October 10, 2016

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Well, yeah, I suppose so. And in the past 15 years, I have indeed heard the chant organically spring up in lots of places, like at every Roaring Riot fan gathering, and on Mint Street as people dressed in black and blue walk to a big home game, and sometimes in small pockets of happy Panther defiance at road games when Carolina was playing well.

But do you know how hard it would actually be to do a full “Keep Pounding” chant in the stadium without any sort of video guidance?

Panther game = NASCAR race?

I do know, because for the past three Panther home games (one regular season, two preseason) I’ve left the glassed-in press box and walked outside to watch a series or two and sample the game-day experience. And I know I’m getting old, and this is a very old-man thing to say, but good Lord, it’s loud.Often, it’s noise that is as artificial as the turf the Panthers are now unfortunately playing upon.

Between the incessant music — usually, it’s good music, just cranked to 11 — and the PA announcer (absolutely blaring) and the various other pieces of game-day entertainment, I can’t imagine when there would ever be enough silence to get a full stadium “Keep Pounding” chant going without some guidance and, more importantly, some silence.

Whoa wait, y’all weren’t screaming #KeepPounding before kickoff & in game? I know traditions can change & sometimes get replaced but “Keep Pounding” holds A LOT of meaning. With dads cancer, it meant so much to still get the Keep Pounding reminder from panther nation. https://t.co/TSPNmU32F9

— Courtney Rivera (@NFL2Ucla) September 15, 2021

You have to yell to the person two seats away just to be heard over the loudspeakers. I have seen some little kids in earmuffs on my sojourns through the stadium and I always think to myself: “That’s smart. I’m proud of your parents.” The Panther stadium noise level is frequently like going to a NASCAR race.

Now all that noise shouldn’t disguise the fact that the Panthers are indeed trying some new game-day stuff, and they absolutely should keep trying it. Most of it is working.

DAVID T. FOSTER III • [email protected]

Former Carolina Panthers player Jordan Gross prepares to hit the “Keep Pounding” drum, joined by Steve Smith, Sr, Wesley Walls, and Jake Delhomme prior to a game in 2019.

The Panthers have a cool new mixed-reality Panther now that will appear at every home game, creating great cat videos, as well as two excellent new “hype men” and several male cheerleaders who have also been added to the large contingent of female Top Cat cheerleaders. All of that is laudable. In general, the Panthers’ entertainment division does a good job.

But let’s not pull the mask off the ol’ Lone Ranger, as Jim Croce once sang. And, again, don’t mess around with Sam. In other words, you can try all sorts of new stuff without dropping the old stuff. The Panther fans who noticed the disappearance of the stadium-wide “Keep Pounding” chant were right to be perturbed.

‘Keep Pounding’ chant will be used Sunday

Before we go further, let me make sure you know that the Panthers say they will use the “Keep Pounding” video prompt again for fans Sunday when Carolina hosts New Orleans at 1 p.m. But they haven’t yet committed to doing it at every home game this season. Maybe they will and maybe they won’t, their spokesperson said. It sounds squishy.

But believe me, I already know how this one ends. They will use it. For every game. Because on Sunday, when the Panthers prompt the fans to scream “Keep Pounding,” the resulting chant will blow a few windows out uptown, and the Panthers will realize: “Why did we ever think we shouldn’t do that?”

 

 

[Mr. Scot]

I don't know if they just forgot it or if the explanation that they wanted it to happen without prompting is true.

(smells like bullsh-t but okay)

Either way, the reason behind it is more dumb than diabolical.

Edited September 16, 2021 by Mr. Scot

[SOJA]

why the fug would tepper do this? 

 

Such a terrible decision

[Waldo]

What an epic failure. 

They sure did pimp out the new fake panther tho...I'm sure that was just a coincidence...