A promise unfulfilled can be one of life’s greatest regrets – especially when you broke that promise not because you wanted to, but because circumstances dictated that you had to.
Such is the case with the promise Carolina Panthers linebacker Thomas Davis once made to the only owner the team has ever had – Jerry Richardson. In 2016, Davis revealed that he had promised Richardson – a father figure and cherished mentor in Davis’s life for more than a decade – that the Panthers would win a Super Bowl while Davis was still playing for Carolina and Richardson was still serving as the team’s owner.