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.

The Panthers also became the first expansion team to beat the defending Super Bowl champions by defeating the San Francisco 49ers 13-7.

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.

The Panthers went down 14-18 to the Raiders and despite a solid performance, Brandy's goal kicking let him down on the day, only kicking one of his four attempts ( a total of 6 points missed out on ) compared to Canberra captain Mal Meninga who landed all three of his attempts.

Beuerlein landed just across the end zone line at time expired, scoring by mere inches and giving the Panthers a 33-31 victory that completely silenced the stunned Lambeau Field crowd.

The record for a number of overtimes in a professional football game is three, when on June 30, 1984, the Los Angeles Express defeated the Michigan Panthers 27-21 in the 1984 USFL playoffs.

At that time, the Stars would be one of the three southern-most teams in the NHL, along with the newly created Tampa Bay Lightning and Florida Panthers as the NHL's first real ventures into southern non-traditional hockey markets.

After three seasons serving as the Panthers head coach, the team announced on April 11, 2008 that Martin would not be back as the bench boss for the 2008 – 09 NHL season.

Babylon Village today has three baseball fields for the high school, little league and adult play, and the high school team is named the Babylon Panthers.

The Panthers wound up spending $ 6 million during the season — three times what USFL founder David Dixon recommended that a team spend in a single season.

Don Beebe played in the National Football League with three teams, the Buffalo Bills, the Carolina Panthers and the Green Bay Packers.

The Patriots defeated the Panthers by the score of 32 – 29, winning their second Super Bowl in three years.

Since the Panthers finished with the third best regular season record in the NFC, they had to win three playoff games to reach the Super Bowl.

The Colts, Cardinals, and the Giants in 2011, like the Panthers, were division winners in those years ( Although in the Colts case, they played the No. 4 seeded New England Patriots in the AFC Championship that year, ensuring at least the second division winner to play three rounds to make it to the Super Bowl.

There, Manning made a permanent mark on Panther history by intercepting Donovan McNabb three times en route to the Panthers ' victory.

One year later, Roberts made a comeback with the Carolina Hurricanes, where he played three seasons before finishing his career with stints playing for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Florida Panthers, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Tampa Bay Lightning.

During the season on February 27, 2009, Boynton was sent home from a Panthers road trip and missed three games for disciplinary reasons, later revealed to be after an argument with coach Peter DeBoer.

Debuting with the Panthers on October 6, 2006, Bertuzzi scored a goal and three assists in an 8 – 3 win against the Boston Bruins.

It was looking as though Panthers would start the 2012 season with an empty jersey, until OAK Milk officially signed as the Panthers ' major sponsor for the next three years.

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

He played in the first three games of the season for the Panthers, but was inactive for the next four before being placed on injured reserve with an injured left knee on November 3, 2004.

Escorting F9F Panthers shoot down three MiG-15s.

Despite the injury, the Panthers announced three days later that Bure had signed to a five-year, US $ 47. 5 million deal ( with an option for a sixth year at US $ 10. 5 million ), the most lucrative in team history.

Of Bure's three goals, two were assisted by his brother Valeri, who played on the same line with Bure, along with Bure's Panthers linemate, Viktor Kozlov.

When Bettman started as commissioner, the league had already expanded by three teams to 24 since 1991, and two more were set to be announced by the expansion committee: the Florida Panthers and Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, who would begin play in 1993 – 94.

The Pirates won three World Series while at Forbes Field and the other original tenant, the Pittsburgh Panthers football team had five undefeated seasons before moving in 1924.

Ironically, his release from the Panthers came just three days after he suggested, when working as an analyst for ESPN at the 2007 NFL Draft, that the Panthers should draft a young wide receiver, which they did with the selection of Dwayne Jarrett.