Panthers still not good enough for fans
Dec 7, 2009
I loved this column from Tom Sorensen in the Charlotte Observer. The Panthers beat a 1-10 football team in Tampa Bay on Sunday by an exhilarating score of 16-6. Josh Freeman threw 5 picks. DeAngelo Williams didn't play. Sorensen talks about how most fans started to leave in the second quarter, and by the fourth quarter it was as if they were being poured down exit ramps:
Smart fans, bad fans, bored fans – it's their business, and it doesn't matter anyway. The air is cold, the sky bleak and the game bleaker.
I hear that. I'm one of those fans. Are there any more of you non-Direc TV folks out there like me that have to suffer through getting every Panthers game in one of your slots on Sunday? That's bad enough. But actually pay money and drive to the stadium to see games like this, in this economy? I think I'll stay in and watch on my Vizio.
Still I loved this line from Sorensen over the reporter who asked the question after the game, what do the Panthers have to play for?:
I've never understood the question. What motivates cops and carpenters, mailmen and middle managers, teachers and technicians? You do it because you're paid to do it. You do it because it is what you do.
I still say this team finishes with maybe 6 wins.
