Your "low point" as a Panthers fan

[nickzz]

kasay's shank

jimmy clausen (that whole year, really)

delhomme's playoff meltdown

some of the losses during cam's rookie season were absolutely gut wrenching. i remember feeling sick after some of them.

 

[nctarheel0619]

Going to Carolina Ale House with a Jimmy Clausen jersey during that 2 win season. Having two Panthers fans tell me he sucks so bad. And somehow we win against the 49ers and all my friends laugh.

[nctarheel0619]

Instead of attending my h.s winter formal with my gf I stayed home and watched the Cards vs Panthers playoff gm. Definitely my low point as a fan because I expected us to make a deep playoff run, we didn't even make the game close. Then i had to go back to school and eat crow since I talked the Panthers up so much to my fiends. It was also the beginning of the end my with my gf. She never got over me ditching her to watch a football gm.

Was your g/f hot and did she swallow? If so, your priorities were possibly in the wrong place.

[Boiidoit34]

easily for me was hearing "With the 46th pick of the 2010 NFL Draft, the Carolina Panthers select Jimmy Clausen, QB Notre Dame" I wanted to puke

[Seltzer]

Not exactly the low point but 2006 was a complete letdown from start to finish.

I had just bought my PSLs and was getting over strep throat but nothing was going to keep me from being at the opener against Atlanta. Everyone was on our jocks as a SB favorite and then Warrick Dunn and Mike Vick just ran all over us.

ATL controlled the entire game and I left sick, figuratively and literally.

2006 and that first game was the beginning of the end for Fox. So much unrealized potential. Should have been the first back-to-back winning seasons and here we are in 2013 still mired in mediocrity.

Getting more depressed as I write this. Hoping for a good year! We are due one

[hank pimple butt]

2005 NFC Championship Game. I was so hyped and excited....And it quickly became drunken depression. Dont get me wrong that was a great run they had that year.....Also 2001 season, and 2010....A lot of damage was done to my liver those 2 years in-particular.   

[The Golden Child]

 

[ladypanther]

Low point??  I want to think about something else.

[beckersteen]

Games that stick out in my mind:

 

Cardinals in the playoffs: I felt like we were supposed to do so much more. I didn't even finish the game. I left my house to go to a friends and did some pretty dumb things that night because of how I felt.

 

That same year against the Vikings: We just had to make a play. I remember being so livid. We just got smitty back and our offense could do anything. Jake getting a sack fumble was too much for me.

 

Last year's start against the buccs. I thought we were supposed to come out and ball. That game was just flat all around and we lost. We weren't as good as I thought we were.

 

Of course the superbowl and NFC champ game vs seahawks stick out, but I wouldn't label those low points. 

[Goondal]

1-Kasey kicking the ball out of bounds.  I do not even remember what transpired between that and the FG.  I was just in a daze.

 

2-TB game last season.  It was part of my brother's bachelor party and the first time we had a chance to go to a game since our family moved after the inaugural season in '95.  We moved to Tampa, went to HS and college there, he still lives there.  We hate everything about the Bucs and their front running fans.  Aside from our cousin, the rest of the group were all big Bucs fans.  After that game I refused to watch the next two games.

 

3-The Bears game last season.  That was the closest thing to a "final straw" for me.  I knew the whole time what was going to happen.  Up until that point I had missed one game in the history of the franchise (not by my choosing).  The next two weeks I chose not to watch for the first time.  That of course led up to the aforementioned TB game which led to two more weeks off.

 

4-2008 was just surreal.  I actually predicted Steelers/Cardinals SB just before kickoff Week I.  I was nearly laughed out of the sports bar and was laughed at every time after that I brought up the Cards.  The bar has a weekly pool for prizes and whoever has the best score for the entire season wins a SB party.  I was doing very well and the Panthers kept winning so of course I started dreaming.  Then the Giants game happened.  I flew to FL to to visit family for Christmas.  I was worried that I would miss the game, then the flex schedule allowed my brother and I to go directly to the bar from the airport to watch.  I honestly thought we would win.  Then Kasey missed the kick and I kind of felt we were doomed.  A week later I won the SB party.  I was back in CO at that bar for he playoff game.  After all that had happened it really was kind one of those "you have got to be flippin' kidding me" moments.

 

5-Brian St. Pierre.  My parents are FSU grads.  My siblings and I bought them Weinke jerseys after that draft (yeah, I know).  The best part of the 2010 season for my brother and I was the week before watching Tony Pike.  We knew he was nothing special but it was still a load of fun.  Our plan the next week was to borrow our parents #16 jerseys and tape Pike over the name.  Brian St. Pierre ruined the one remotely fun possibility of that whole miserable season.

[ItsNotGonnaBeAlright]

Sunday, December 9th, 2001, two minute warning against the Bills. Buffalo was at 3 and 8, if the Panthers could hold they'd get the ball back with about 0:45 left on the clock to get in field goal range and win the game. Alex Van Pelt throws a 12 yard pass, Buffalo goes into victory formation. It was considered to be the last chance Carolina had to win a game that year, and they couldn't pull it off.

There's been other times that I've been down on the team, but that's the first time I felt like there was no point in watching the rest of the games....yes, even after 11 straight loses that year and even though they came back after the bye and gave the Rams a run for their money. Even though the team was clearly hopeless that year, it took until the end of game 13 for me to give up. And since it's the first time I really gave up on them, it'll stick as my low point. Not even Clausen could do worse in my mind. Not even the team ejecting almost every scrap of talent it had heading into the lockout killed my fandom as much. Not even Jerry's pie charts made me question why I bother watching this team the way that game did. Not even Jake collapsing against Arizona can replace watching Alex Van fug all Pelt kneel it out against the Panthers. It is just burned in there, and I'd hate to think of what it would take to replace it.
 

 

[AlabamaPanther]

2. January 2, 2002. Watching that dreary and rainy game in my dorm room with so few people in the stands. Not to mention the beating we took from the Patriots that day. Still makes me sad.

1. Super Bowl XXXVIII. Thought we had our ultimate revenge against the Patriots until, well you know the rest.

[Achilles]

Rock bottom: Mid 2010 (aka the Clausen Era)

 

Realizing that JR completely tanked the 2010 season, not necessarily in order to get a high draft pick and improve the team, but to set up the organization to be in the best possible business situation going into the new collective bargaining agreement.

 

JR was all about getting his way with the CBA and knew that he could put a crappy product on the field and make out like a bandit financially.  It just seemed like the most cynical possible strategy.  JR doesn't think the players should have equal standing with the owners.  Never before was it more clear that JR sees the elite owner class as more important that the players or the fans.  I will never see him the same ever again.  I am still a fan, but not of the owner...of the players, coaches, and other fans only.

 

I used to believe JR when he said that the Panthers will never leave the Carolinas as long as he is the owner.  I still mostly believe it...but if this team tanks another season and goes back down to a bottom 5 team, I think it will be pretty hard for JR to deny the NFL luring him out to LA.  At what point does it become the best decision for himself and the elite owners of the league? There is a breaking point somewhere with JR.  His is a business man first and foremost.

 

If Charlotte had not copped to his stadium deal request, I think the writing would be on the wall.

 

Bottom line, 2010 showed me that JR is a bit more ruthless than his affable public persona might indicate.  I lost faith.

[pilot2011]

08 AZ game

 

2010

 

Steve Smith breaking his leg

 

Nakumura's  2.5 inch vertical