My Monday Training Camp Experience

[CarolinaCatBrigade]

I haven't had time to type this up the past two days, with work and all. But I wanted to give you a run down of what I, as a fan, experienced Monday.

Me and my brother got together and made a massive sign out of poster board saying "Go Cam Newton #1" in big bold blue and black sharpy. I was pimped out in my authentic Beason jersey, mirror shades, black cap, and my brother was in a Panther T-shirt, with a blue cap. We had a nice 2 hour drive down 85 to spartanburg. Chatting it up about various things we hoped to see at practice.

When we arrived we were about an hour early (5:00) and about a quarter til 6 the players started coming out and the scrubs started to sign autographs. My brother wanted everyones signature, but I, having limited space on my autograph ball, held my standards high. Sure enough coach RR started signing, and I got his signature. I then asked him about Cam Newton's progress, and he said "so far so good". I then went on to get Tony Pike's auto, just because I have a feeling he will be good at some point in the NFL. He's super tall and really skinny.

Well, when the real players came out onto the field. The whole crowd was quiet, well, all except for me. First I screamed at Mike Goodson "GO MIKE!!!!" loud as could be, I pointed at him, and he gave me the peace sign! :D Then I screamed at Charles Godfrey, well, just because I was excited, he just kinda looked at me.

But when Cam Newton came out, I had my brother hold up the giant sign and I screamed "GO CAM!!! WOOOHOOO! CAM NEWTON! LETS GO BABY! WOOOHOO!" He bent over laughing while walking onto the field and pointing at me, I yelled "I WILL SEE YOU AFTER PRACTICE!" and he yelled back "No, I will see you after practice!" So it was settled. Big sig after practice.

Then here came Smitty and I did the same thing for him, and he just casually said "see ya after practice". Where's the energy? Well I went on to do the same thing to DWill and Greg Olsen. No emotion in them. :nonod:

Well about 10 minutes into practice it started to downpour, and they went inside, Cam Newton, carrying 3 helmets, leaped onto the golf cart with the other QB's and they shipped up to the gym to do an inside practice for the rest of the night. Shocked and with a glimir of hope, I waited the storm out with a few other fans and spent another 2 hours infront of the practice facility hoping they would come out and at least give me an autograph or something. Never happened. I started to sneak into the facility to see whats going on and then chickened out after seeing some staff, but can you really blame me? And I wasted half a tank of gas on a 4 hour round trip to SC for 10 minutes of action. It wasn't all to bad though.

In conclusion, I've learned a valuable lesson, check the weather before making day trips.