The Falcons also wore their all-black uniform in 2007 against the New York Giants, and in 2008 against the Carolina Panthers and against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers ( for the second time ).

* WECR-FM 102. 3 FM is an Adult Contemporary radio station, mostly music, also University of North Carolina Tar Heels sports network, and Carolina Panthers football.

There were some disputes also between Bucs K Martin Gramatica and Panthers P Todd Sauerbrun.

Their fellow second-year NFC expansion team, the Carolina Panthers, also got to their conference championship game, where they lost 30 – 13 to the eventual Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers.

He also claimed that the teal tongue came from " feeding Panthers to our Jaguars " — an obvious jab at their expansion brethren.

The Jaguars also have a rivalry with their 1995 expansion brethren, the Carolina Panthers.

In 2008, the Giants won the NFC East with a record of 12 – 4 ( and also were the number one seed in the NFC after beating the Carolina Panthers for home field advantage ), but lost 23 – 11 to the Philadelphia Eagles in the divisional round of the playoffs.

Like the Jaguars, the Panthers were also a 1995 expansion team that advanced to the conference title game.

The WFL also arguably had an impact on locations of other professional football teams: from the NFL, Hawaii hosted the Pro Bowl from 1980 through 2009, Jacksonville got the Jacksonville Jaguars in 1995, Charlotte received the Carolina Panthers in the same year, and Houston's expansion franchise, the Texans, revived the name of the WFL team in 2002.

The Rangers also acquired Pavel Bure late in the 2001 – 02 season from the Florida Panthers.

In the Stanley Cup Finals, the Avalanche met the Florida Panthers, who were also in their first Finals.

The late 1960s also saw white youth joining a counterculture heavily associated with political activism, while black youth formed radical organizations like the Black Panthers.

* Southern Tioga School District ( also in Tioga County ) Liberty Mountaineers, Mansfield Tigers, and North Penn Panthers

In addition, there is also one middle school-Miller Creek Middle School Panthers, a California Distinguished School.

It also broadcasts games of the Carolina Panthers, Catawba College, and local high schools.

* Dom Capers-defensive coordinator for the Green Bay Packers former defensive coordinator for the Miami Dolphins and Pittsburgh Steelers, also the first head coach of the NFL Houston Texans and first head coach of the NFL Carolina Panthers

Amber is also home of Amber-Pocasset Jr. Sr. High School, home of the Panthers.

Wampum is also noted for its legendary High School basketball program from the 1950s, where all sorts of state and national records were established and their coach L. Butler Hennon made the cover of Life magazine and his son Don Hennon went on to national prominence with the University of Pittsburgh Panthers basketball team, where he was a two-time Consensus All-American.

Harrah school district, also known as the " Panthers ", has 607 kids in the elementary school.

Castleford also has two other lower league rugby league teams, Castleford Lock Lane ARLFC and Castleford Panthers ( based at Raglan Close ).

The Pitt Panthers football team also plays it after the third quarter of all home games, with the crowd cheering, " Let's go Pitt ".

He also noted the major differences between the original Black Panthers and the New Black Panthers, particularly the differences in their 10 Point Plans.

He was formerly the head coach of the St. Louis Blues, Ottawa Senators, Montreal Canadiens and the Florida Panthers where he also was appointed as the general manager.

They became the first NFL team to wear all-black uniforms in a week 5 road game against the Carolina Panthers, and again in weeks 16 and 17 in home games against the Washington Redskins and San Francisco 49ers ; the Saints were outscored 78-10 in the final two contests to end a 7-9 campaign.

Tony Dorsett became the first football player in history to win an NCAA National Championship one year ( with the University of Pittsburgh Panthers ) and a Super Bowl the next.

* 30 Rod Smart ( Western Kentucky )-" He Hate Me " became the first former XFL player to appear in a Super Bowl: Super Bowl XXXVIII for the Panthers.

* Guerdwich Montimere, a 22-year-old man who posed as homeless 16-year-old orphan Jerry Joseph and became the star of the Permian Panthers high school basketball team.

The Gray Panthers became known for advocating nursing home reform and fighting ageism, claiming that " old people and women constitute America's biggest untapped and undervalued human energy source.

In Game 1 of the conference quarterfinals against the Florida Panthers, Brodeur became only the second goaltender to record 100 playoff wins in a 3 – 2 Devils victory.

Following the War, the Panthers became a minor league franchise of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

* 1998 – 99: Calgary Flames ( through 1999 – 2000 ; became road jersey through 2003 ; third shirt again 2003 – 07 ), Florida Panthers ( through 2002 – 03 ; became new home jersey, replaced by former road jersey ), New York Rangers ( white shirt replaced blue third for one season ), Phoenix Coyotes ( through 2002 – 03 ), Toronto Maple Leafs ( through 2006 – 07 )

* 2003 – 04: Mighty Ducks of Anaheim ( through 2005 – 06 ), Atlanta Thrashers ( would become home shirt ), Boston Bruins ( c. 1970 – vintage program ) Columbus Blue Jackets ( became home jersey in 2007 – 08 ), Dallas Stars ( used through 2005 – 06 ), Edmonton Oilers ( c. 1988 – vintage program ), Florida Panthers ( former road shirt, through 2006 – 07 ), Los Angeles Kings ( c. 1987 – vintage program ), Minnesota Wild ( became home jersey in 2007 – 08 ); Montreal Canadiens ( c. 1946 and c. 1960 versions – vintage program – 1946 version used through 2006 – 07 ), New York Rangers ( c. 1978 – vintage program ), St. Louis Blues ( c. 1979 – vintage program ) Vancouver Canucks ( c. 1976 – vintage program ; worn as fourth in 2005 – 06, in use as third through 2006 – 07 )

The Panthers became the first No. 3 seed to advance to the Super Bowl since the league expanded to a 12-team playoff format in 1990.

" He returned to New York City and became affiliated with the Young Lords, similar to the Black Panthers.

By this time a single top level rugby league team had emerged in the Penrith area and in 1964 they became known as the Penrith Panthers.

Mills became a free agent at the end of the 1994 NFL season, and was signed by the expansion Carolina Panthers.

Mills became a veteran leader for the young team, the only player to start every game during the Panthers ' first three seasons.

He became a Defensive Coaching Assistant for the Panthers in 1998, before being promoted to Linebackers coach in 1999.

His plea to " Keep Pounding " in an emotional speech before the Panthers ' victory over the Dallas Cowboys later became the name of a fund to sponsor cancer research programs.

* June 10, 1996: Uwe Krupp became the 12th player in NHL history to end the Stanley Cup Finals in overtime, scoring a goal at 4: 31 of triple overtime, giving the Colorado Avalanche a 1 – 0 win and a sweep of the Florida Panthers.

During the Carolina Panthers ' Monday Night Football game against the Buccaneers on November 13, 2006, Johnson became the first player in NFL history to score a touchdown on Monday Night Football with four different teams ( Jets, Buccaneers, Cowboys and Panthers ).

He became assistant coach of the Florida Panthers for the 1993 – 94 NHL season until the 1996 – 97 NHL season.

With major changes in the team winning became common place for the team, not only successful in the national league, they also showed the ISL-BNL gap was one that could be bridged with Challenge game wins over Basingstoke Bison and Nottingham Panthers ; being the first ever defeats of Superleague teams from a British team not in the league.

Additionally, the Panthers became the first German side to win the Eurobowl in 1995.