Away Message - S2 Bonus: The Bridge To Nowhere

Apr 27, 2023

Panthers Aren't Real

Shortly after I moved to Charlotte in 2005, I became a Carolina Panthers fan because it was much better than being a fan of the Cleveland Browns. A few years later, I became the producer of the Panthers postgame show on a local television station. A few years after that, the production moved from the station to the stadium. It was there that I first heard a piece of information that I hadn’t actually considered before: The screaming panther sound—the noise that you’d hear during home games whenever the Panthers did something good like get a first down or make a third down stop—was not actually the sound that a real panther makes. You can read more here: https://www.ncrabbithole.com/p/panthers-arent-real Closing song: "Riverboat Ron" by Crab Claw

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