WHO: Carolina Panthers
WHERE: Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina
WHEN: Saturday, July 28
HOW: Rented Nissan Centra, via three-hour drive from Flowery Branch, Ga.
SPARTANBURG, S.C.—“Let’s go motherf------!”
It’s 9:36 a.m. and Thomas Davis is at the center of a small, bouncing huddle of linebackers, shoving or headbutting anyone willing to get close enough.
A few hundred fans within an earshot buzz from a moderately sloped grass hill that looks down on the sun-fried turf at Wofford College. Home of the Terriers. Individual periods are starting after a rotating group of warm-up exercises that move in stunning fluidity.