There have been worse moments in Carolina Panthers history than this one we’re now in, but not too many and not too recently.
By the fourth quarter of a 24-10 home loss to Atlanta Sunday, the Panthers were reduced to using a backup quarterback who was basically playing with one arm, in front of about 65,000 empty seats and 5,000 occupied ones, for a coach who may lose his job and was directing his seventh straight loss.
The Panthers had once again been dive-bombed by locusts, who had driven them into a sinkhole, and that sinkhole contained a dumpster, and that dumpster had caught fire.