Cat Scratch Reader
All it takes is one dominating win and the bandwagon for the Carolina Panthers starts to fill up again. To be clear, I’m not saying that any fair weather fans have returned to the Carolinas. This is a wagon populated entirely by long suffering fans who are quick to hope because they are tired of everything else.
I think this is a nice amount of fans to have rebounded after last week’s 29% confidence rating. Whose to say that another blowout/shutout combo on the road against a not-great New England Patriots team won’t give us another 40 point bounce in this poll next week. Who’s to say that my understanding of math and grammar don’t have something to do with why I still consider myself a Panthers fan? Fall is, after all, traditionally a season of new beginnings.
For all that Panthers fans have been through a lot over their past decade or so of bad football, we can at least take solace in the fact that we are not alone. Our immediate neighbors to the south have been equally—if not consistently—as bad as our favorite team. That’s we can enjoy poll results from SB Nation and the Falcoholic today:
Let’s give it up for the fans of the Atlanta Falcons. Their Week 2 win over the Minnesota Vikings saw them post an 89% confidence rating. That 83-point plummet couldn’t have happened without the hard work of each and every Carolina Panther last week and it couldn’t have happened to a fan base that was better prepared for this kind of crushing disappointment.
We may not have much as Panthers fans, but at least we have friends, people of intelligence, neighbors who know rock bottom as well as we do.
