The Carolina Panthers will soon be up for sale, but the state of North Carolina will work to keep the team in Charlotte.
In a visit to Charlotte Friday, Gov. Roy Cooper called the Panthers “critical to the Charlotte area and North Carolina’s economy.” Cooper also said he has begun consulting local civic and business leaders about ways the state can help keep the Panthers here.
“I want them to stay here. I don’t see any reason that a change of ownership would cause either the Panthers or the NFL to want this great team to move,” Cooper said at Cotswold Elementary, which he was visiting to discuss class sizes and teacher pay.