What is the origin of the Riverboat Ron name?

[TNPanther]

I feel like an idiot for asking, but who originally came up with the Riverboat Ron nickname? Was it someone on the Huddle or someone in the media, or a player? I'm just curious.

[jtnc]

Someone in the media. I believe Will Brinson.

[Hammerin'Cameron34]

ur mizzom on my kizzock 

[PantherFanOne]

I feel like an idiot for asking, but who originally came up with the Riverboat Ron nickname? Was it someone on the Huddle or someone in the media, or a player? I'm just curious.

 

Jim Kennedy, a freelance graphic designer who lives in Raleigh and graduated from N.C. State in 2008, designed this "Riverboat Ron" image after watching Carolina edge San Francisco Sunday.

 

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/11/13/4463762/riverboat-ron-gets-a-photoshopped.html#storylink=cpy

 

 

- Courtesy Jim Kennedy

 

 

 

 

 

[thunderraiden]

 

Jim Kennedy, a freelance graphic designer who lives in Raleigh and graduated from N.C. State in 2008, designed this "Riverboat Ron" image after watching Carolina edge San Francisco Sunday.

 

 

- Courtesy Jim Kennedy

 

 

 

 

 

Incorrect, it was coined after the Vikings game despite the fact he was showing tendencies in the Giants game which avalanched that score into a 38-0 shut out which led to him embracing going for it on forth down despite it biting him in the game against the Cardinals where LaFell dropped an easy 4th down conversion swinging momentum.

 

[Panther_mountain]

Fred Smoot.

[Rules&Regulations]

Didn't David Newton write an article titled "Ron Rivera: A Riverboat Gambler?" or something like that? I don't know if the article actually called him Riverboat Ron, but I think that's where the idea came from. And yeah, I think it was after the Vikes win.

[Jangler]

He shot Bret Maverick and fuged Annabelle Bransford in front of his dead body. 

[pstall]

met his wife on a dinner cruise in the Charleston harbor

[rainwater]

 

Jim Kennedy, a freelance graphic designer who lives in Raleigh and graduated from N.C. State in 2008, designed this "Riverboat Ron" image after watching Carolina edge San Francisco Sunday.

 

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/11/13/4463762/riverboat-ron-gets-a-photoshopped.html#storylink=cpy

 

 

- Courtesy Jim Kennedy

 

 

 

 

 

That is the origin of the picture, not his nickname.

[Panther_mountain]

It came from Ron's secret crush on Gavin MacLeod.

[Sean Payton's Vicodin]

it was either david newton or bill barnwell (in his Thank You for Not Coaching articles), but the photoshop is where it really took off

[MichaelNewtonII]

I feel like an idiot for asking, but who originally came up with the Riverboat Ron nickname? Was it someone on the Huddle or someone in the media, or a player? I'm just curious.

here ive already answered this on here previously. It was the media member mentioned in this article. http://m.espn.go.com/general/blogs/blogpost?blogname=carolina-panthers&id=1226&src=desktop

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[Squirrel]

here ive already answered this on here previously. It was the media member mentioned in this article. http://m.espn.go.com/general/blogs/blogpost?blogname=carolina-panthers&id=1226&src=desktop

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I knew it was Riverboat Rivera and not Ron.  Damn simpletons ruined it!