Your "low point" as a Panthers fan

[LinvilleGorge]

The answer is simple - Rae Carruth.  Rae Carruth is the low point of this franchise, no question about it.

 

On the field - I'd go with the '05 NFC Championship game.  It's hard to pick an NFC Championship game as the low point as just to get there you've had a damn good season, but the fact that I went into that game downright cocky that we were gonna get their asses and then to have the guy who to this day may be my favorite Panther to date go in there and just complete poo the bed... man, that's a tough pill to swallow.

[PhillyB]

2010 numbed me, but i still wanted to watch games.

 

that season opener last year against tampa bay sucked the soul and desire out of me after being so excited. i didn't want anything to do with football for the rest of the week.

[rayzor]

i would say the playoff game against the cards, but then fox saying that they used the same game plan they had used at the beginning of the year against them because since it worked the first time it should work the second time.

 

and then giving jake an extension after that miserable performance.

 

and then the whole "jake gives us the best chance to win" crap.

 

everything stemming from that playoff loss let me know that my suspicions from '07 were founded...that there was no long term plan for this team.

 

the most recent low point, tho, was rivera saying "rome wasn't built in a day" when people were rightly complaining about an underachieving panthers team that hadn't had a winning season in years. instead of owning it, he tried to excuse it. that, to me, is inexcusable.

 

i have some hopes that he's changed and there was an interview on wfnz a week ago in which he pointed out mistakes he made in coaching that gave me reason for that hope, but right now aside from the OL, i think that in game management and coaching decisions are the weak spot of this team. it's on rivera to prove it isn't.

[Shufdog]

I read the thread and was opened it to post the 2010 Baltimore game.  That was the low-point for me.  The stadium that day was absolutely packed with Ravens fans.  It was the first time I ever heard the Panther's booed as they came out of their tunnel.

 

I was at that game, it was absolutely embarrassing! I never have figured out how the hell so many Baltimore fans got that many tickets!!!

[Tom]

Then i wonder how bad Raiders fans feel. How many times has that team picked in the top 5 of the draft over the past decade?

  

Just two years? The Lions, Browns, Rams, Chiefs, and Raiders have had it worse recently.

Y'all are right. We aren't in the bottom tier of franchishes, probably in the second worst tier (of four).

[CharlottePanther]

I must say its the Atlanta game last season. I was so bitter for months. It was just so heartbreaking on so many levels.

[CCS]

After the infamous Cardinals game I went and sat in the shower for like 2 hours and just stared at the wall. 

 

 

Never in my life have I went from over the top can't stop smiling to completely deflated sadness in that short of a period of time.

[Lloyd Christmas]

Last second SB loss to Pats was heartbreaking. Playoff loss to AZ was devastating (and embarrassing), but the 2010 season was just atrocious and by far was the low point. That was the first time in 15 years that I had zero interest in football.

[TANTRIC-NINJA]

2009 playoffs against the Cardinals...I terroized my family after having a 12 year old like kid tantrum, had a stroke where I saw satan dancing in a toga, realized that Jeff Davidson, John Fox and Jake Delhomme have to end their careers in Charlotte and if in front of me.. their lives!

Then we were was blessed with the 2009-10 season and thought it could not get any worse and then Jimmy Clausen happened. I was on suicide watch for a while.

In essense, nothing Cam Newton and Rivera have done have come to making me insane with rage Like 2008-2010 John Fox, Jake Delhomme, Jeff Davidson and the Clausen, Fox, JR pre-lockout seasons.

Not even close.

Rivera, stay stoic...be honest and be the most engaging coache we have had to date...let the fans hate you bc you are not doing lame-azz Time Waner Cable commercials like the out of touch and overrated chin.

[Kurb]

To be honest the "Dark Times" we have experienced since 2008 have educated the fanbase a great deal.

 

Excitement over picking up scrapheap players that would be "Hurney Majiked" into Probowlers has long faded.

Shitty drafting is recognized.

Hanging onto shitty players b/c we drafted them is recognized.

Shitty contracts are more easily recognized 

Poor play and performance no longer gets as much "aww shucks they are still learning" comments, some rationalization of losses is acceptable, butt he loss is no longer acceptable. (Thanks Cam!)

 

Finally and most importantly.

 

Jerry Richardson had his Sainthood removed around 2009. He carried a God like effect on this fanbase, people thought he could do little wrong.   We all started realizing that he is ultimately the person to blame, as he hires the people that take on the blame for him (Hurney big time) AND obviously had significant input on the ruination of our cap space post lock out. The fans are realizing JR might not be as dedicated to winning as he like to have his PR people claim for him.

[thefuzz]

Superbowl was tough, but I was proud of the team that we got that far as a young franchise.

 

Seattle loss was tough as well, but we were so banged up I wasn't too upset, however I think that we could have won the SB had we gotten there.

 

The absolute worst for me was the Arizona game.  I was already so terribly frustrated with the FO, and the seemingly rudderless boat that we were riding....honestly I can't even remember how awful that was, and knowing that it was going to get worse.

 

Thank god Hurney is gone.

[GotSwag?]

I think the low point for me was Delhomme's INT-laden game vs Arizona in the playoffs.  I knew it was the end of the era for that team.  Super Bowl, i was extremely EXTREMELY proud of them although they lost.  It was an awesome game that ended in heartbreak but I will never see that as a low point.  It was hard for me to say a playoff game was a low point.

 

The other low point was the season before Cam, but thankful that we sucked that year or we wouldnt have Cam.

[TANTRIC-NINJA]

Reading YOLO!'s threads is pretty deflating just about human life in general....JK. Lol...

..no seriously. jK lol

Seriously

[Admiral Ackbar]

The playoff game against the Cardinals hurt me, but losing the Superbowl just sucked the life out of me. I was just a teenager and when the Patriots made the field goal because of the field position given to them due to John Kasay's kickoff misfourtune, that hurt a lot. Plus we battled so hard the entire game that you hate to lose the biggest game of the year that way....