Just curious as to why the Panthers are your team.

[capfolly]

Live in PA. Gods honest truth, I wasn't a big football fan when I was younger. My Uncle would play me in Madden and would always beat me. Then I played him in Madden 98 and chose the Panthers and beat him. I was so happy I stuck with them after that and as i learned to like football I started to follow them in real life and that's how I got to this point today. Not the greatest way to become a fan but a fun way nonetheless.

[Neylus]

Beacuase I'm from North Carolina. If I supported any other team it would be fraud. WTF would you want another city/state, in which you have no affiliation, to celebrate a championship for? Where is the pride in that??

[RockyTopVol]

Grew up in Wilson, NC and was just 15 for the Panthers' first season. Before that, I only followed college football.

Now that I live in Knoxville, it's easy to still be a fan of the Panthers. It's a short drive to Charlotte, and I don't have to worry with too many fans of competing NFL teams around here. UT is the pro team around here. I even think the Colts have more fans in Knoxville than the Titans.

[HSCBandit07]

I'm from Md but now have lived in Va for about 6 years. I used to like the Ravens when they came in the league. They had success fairly quickly and I love a dominant defense and a great run game (that D and jamal lewis running the ball was really something). After they won the superbowl I kind of got bored with them though. I started liking the Panthers when John Fox came into the picture after that atrocious 1-15 season. I flirted with them a lot in the 8-8 season that followed and watched most of the games the superbowl year. My room-mate in college was from Charlotte, so we watched (or listened) to all the games and still go to at least one game a year. I've been to the stadium for the saints game that Reggie Bush first played against us at home (we won), the cowboys game where Moore got his first loss, the cards game we won (the same season we lost to them in the playoffs), and the eagles game this past season (horrible). I'm trying to decide which game to see this year.

[HSCBandit07]

Oh and I should mention that Va has no football team. The Redskins are DC and I will not call them my team (although I do cheer for them over the cowboys).

[RazzleDazzle]

I'm from Mt. Olive and grew up a fan. Got my first shirt when they became a team before I even watched Football, so I decided they were my team.

Pickle Festival!

[nosuchthingasapanther]

i'm from south carolina.

gotta root for the home team...especially when you can watch everything unfold right from the beginning.

[pantherfan81]

Beacuase I'm from North Carolina. If I supported any other team it would be fraud. WTF would you want another city/state, in which you have no affiliation, to celebrate a championship for? Where is the pride in that??

Who are you to say to the rest of us, who aren't from the Carolinas, that there's no pride in rooting for an out of state team? I go to a game every year, you can't walk more than 10-15 feet in my house without seeing a Panther logo, everyday in our household there's at least some talk about the team, and above all we are also USC & Lakers fans two teams with a lot of championships yet, we are beyond loyal to a young franchise that has yet to win ONE and have never been bandwagon fans to any big name pro football team no matter what. I say I got more pride than half who fill BoA stadium that's what I think. You?

[Panthro]

Born in NY and grew up in Tampa I was a fan of the Bills Bucs and Jets. No loyalty as a kid. Moved to Charlotte in '93 and loved the Hornets. I was stoked about Charlotte getting a team and was at the first ever (and maybe only) Carowinds Draft Party. Man I was pissed we didn't get Ki-Jana Carter. lol

[Captroop]

I have moved around a lot, but I was living in North Carolina at the time the team got created. And when we got the franchise in 1993, you started seeing Panthers logos everywhere. I was only 6 at the time, but my mom had already bought me tons of Panthers stuff that I wore all the time, even before the team took its first snap. I guess it's embedded in my childhood; very Freudian.

So I started calling myself a Panthers fan even after we moved away (mainly because I wanted to have an answer when people asked what my favorite football team was), but really I couldn't care less about football. Then in 2003 I joined a football pool so I decided to actually watch so I could have a chance to win (I couldn't have even told you who won the Super Bowl the year before). Naturally, I rooted for the Panthers. And for obvious reasons, I have been addicted to football, and a die-hard fan of the Panthers ever since.

Scary to think what might have happened if I had joined the football pool in 2001.

[VMIPanther]

Born, raised, and live just outside Richmond, VA. Grew up hating the Deadskins and was happy as hell when the Panthers arrived. The wife also has family in Charlotte and we enjoy visiting the area. I've been a Panthers fan from day 1. My wife has been converted and the kids were born into it.

[STIFFPAWED]

In the words of Panthro,cause they be "straight b-ballin yo diggity".

http://www.carolinahuddle.com/forum/the-lounge/29205-huddle-jamz-010-the-rumble-down-fromunda-dunking-deeznuts-taking-names.html

[Neylus]

I go to a game every year, you can't walk more than 10-15 feet in my house without seeing a Panther logo, everyday in our household there's at least some talk about the team, and above all we are also USC & Lakers fans two teams with a lot of championships yet, we are beyond loyal to a young franchise that has yet to win ONE and have never been bandwagon fans to any big name pro football team no matter what. I say I got more pride than half who fill BoA stadium that's what I think. You?

Good points.. I was too vague in my statement. Really had native locals who refuse to support the Panthers in mind. But I digress, this is not the overall theme of this thread. :cheers2:

[omgwtf]

Video games.

No, seriously.

Never watched any football EVERRRRR until I played ESPN 2K4, which coincided with the magical 2003 season (not a NC native but have lived here since 1989). Been hooked ever since.