The first time I saw Carolina Panthers defensive end Julius Peppers run down a quarterback in person, it was the 16th preseason of his career.
It was a sticky, lightning-crackled August night in Jacksonville and Peppers got loose and chased Chad Henne into the arms of Carolina’s linebackers.
“There he goes,” I remember someone saying up in the press box at Everbank Field. You could feel Henne’s panic as Peppers bore down on him.
I laughed out loud and that is definitely, definitely frowned-upon in a press box.