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The Carolina Panthers' efforts to obtain public funds help to pay for renovations to Bank of America Stadium might be helped by having team owner David Tepper remain out of the limelight, according to the Charlotte Observer's Scott Fowler.
"It has been wise for Tepper to stay in the background and let the executive team directly under him be the faces of this proposal," Fowler wrote Saturday. "Tepper has gotten a lot of advice — including in this corner — to stay out of the fray more often because he's hurt himself and his reputation in Charlotte several times when he wades in.