Things got heated in 2011 during a game when Roman Harper illegally hit Panthers wide receiver Steve Smith after Smith scored a touchdown.

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.

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 Patriots forced Carolina to punt after 3 plays and again got the ball with great field position, receiving Todd Sauerbrun's 40-yard punt at the Panthers 49-yard line.

Le Guen's appointment caused an uprise in Cameroon's spirits as they got a win against Gabon in Libreville, followed by another win against the Panthers four days later in Yaounde.

Hextall was moved after a single season to the New York Islanders, and in return the Nordiques got Mark Fitzpatrick ( who would go on to be left unprotected in the 1993 NHL Expansion Draft in which he was claimed by the Florida Panthers ) and a first round pick, which the Nordiques used to select Adam Deadmarsh, who would be a key member of the Avalanche Cup-winning teams.

The attack got under way at 1300 hours with the Panthers racing to the town at full speed only to stop to fire their guns, quickly outrunning their infantry support which was forced to the ground by Allied artillery fire.

They also got Brendan Hlad on loan from the Penrith Panthers until the end of the season, however he has not featured in coach Terry Matterson's plans much since his arrival, playing three games all from off the bench, and scoring no points.

They played the Nottingham Panthers in the playoffs and got a respectable 4-4 draw at home in the first leg but were defeated 5-0 in the second leg ( 9-4 on aggregate ).

The Panthers got the ball first and scored quickly.

The next time Carolina got the ball, Delhomme was intercepted again, this time by Marquand Manuel, who returned it 32 yards to the Panthers 17-yard line, setting up Alexander's 1-yard touchdown run that increased Seattle's lead to 17-0 on the first play of the second quarter.

The campaign got off to a good start, an 18 – 42 away win against London Skolars on the Good Friday was backed up by with a 68 – 0 win against Blackpool Panthers in front of an Easter Monday crowd of 2, 805.

In a 2010 game against the Carolina Panthers, Mason and Flacco got into an argument on the sidelines.

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 ).

In their existence, the Panthers have compiled a record of 131 – 150, and appeared in Super Bowl XXXVIII in Houston.

The Panthers have held their summer training camp at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina every year since the franchise began.

The Panthers signed Dom Capers, previously the defensive coordinator for the Pittsburgh Steelers, as their inaugural head coach.

In their inaugural season, he led the Panthers to a 7 – 9 record, setting a record for the most victories by an expansion team.

He then led the team to a 7 – 9 record the following year, before leading the Panthers to their worst record in franchise history.

In 2001, the Panthers won their season opener 24 – 13 over the Vikings, but set a ( then ) NFL record by losing 15 consecutive games to finish the season 1 – 15.

The Panthers were then headed to their first Super Bowl in team history, to be played against the New England Patriots.

With the league rules permitting teams to wear their third jersey twice in the regular season and once in the preseason, the Panthers reserve the use of their alternate light blue jersey for a home game when there are one or two games that they don't wear them on the road.

Like many other NFL teams located in temperate climates, the Panthers traditionally wear their white jerseys at home during the first half of the season — forcing opponents to wear their dark ones under the warm autumns in Charlotte.

When it gets to the second half of the season the Panthers will start to wear their colored jerseys for home games as temperatures will be cooler.

The Raiders wanted the courts to bar the Buccaneers and Panthers from wearing their uniforms while playing in California.

The Panthers have played in ten postseason games, wearing the white jerseys in all but their most recent playoff game.

In their first game since that banter, the Panthers held a 9-3 lead in Tampa late in the fourth quarter, when QB Brad Johnson hit WR Keenan McCardell in the back of the end zone for a touchdown.

Following the regular season, in which the 12-4 Panthers won their third NFC South division title, they hosted the Cardinals at Bank of America Stadium in the Panthers first home playoff game since January 2004.

The Carolina Panthers Hall of Honor was established in 1997 to honor individuals for their contributions to the Carolina Panthers franchise.

The team hosted ( and lost ) their divisional round match on January 15, 2006 against the Carolina Panthers.

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.

After Dom Capers was let go following the previous season, George Seifert was hired as the second head coach in Panthers history.

He was formerly the Carolina Panthers ' defensive coordinator, bringing the team's defensive ranking from 30th to second.

Collins was the first – ever draft choice of the expansion Carolina Panthers in 1995, and led the Panthers to the NFC Championship game in his second season.

They won against the Panthers in the first game at the New Meadowlands, but then lost to the Colts in the second " Manning Bowl ", so-called due to Eli Manning's brother Peyton playing for the Colts.

The Packers then dominated the second half, only allowing one more field goal from the Panthers.

In 1925, Detroit fielded its second NFL franchise, the Detroit Panthers.

The team's first game resulted in a 13-0 loss to the Canton Bulldogs, while their second game resulted in a 47-0 loss to the Detroit Panthers.

The Panthers had chances to win the game in both the first and second overtimes, but normally reliable kicker Novo Bojovic missed field goals each time.

He finished second in the nation in rushing with 1, 586 yards in 11 games and led the Pittsburgh Panthers to its first winning season in 10 years.

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.

On February 1, 2004, Brady led the Patriots to a 32 – 29 victory over the NFC champion Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl XXXVIII and was named Super Bowl MVP for the second time.

On January 10, Warner led the Cardinals in their 20-point defeat of the Carolina Panthers 33 – 13 in Charlotte, North Carolina in the second round of the playoffs.

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

Both teams spent the rest of the second and the third quarter exchanging field goals before Brad Hoover's 7-yard rushing touchdown gave the Panthers a 23-12 fourth quarter lead.

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.

Later on, New England drove 57 yards to the Panthers 18-yard line with 6 minutes left in the second period, but once again they failed to score as Carolina kept them out of the end zone and Vinatieri's 36-yard field goal attempt was blocked by Panthers defender Shane Burton.

That fumble occurred 3 plays after Vinatieri's second missed field goal ; Delhomme lost the ball while being sacked by linebacker Mike Vrabel, and Patriots defensive tackle Richard Seymour recovered the ball at the Panthers 20-yard line ; by this point of the game the Panthers had suffered a net loss of nine yards on twenty offensive snaps.

After two seasons with the Coyotes Boynton was traded at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft along with Keith Ballard and a second round pick to the Florida Panthers for Olli Jokinen on June 20, 2008.

Doan and his wife Andrea have four children – Gracie ( born December 17, 1998 ), Josh ( born March 2002 ), Karys ( born July 23, 2004 ), and Carson ( born September 2006 ) Doan is also a second cousin of Carey Price, goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens and first cousin of Keaton Ellerby, a Florida Panthers prospect and Catriona Le May Doan, a two-time Olympic gold medalist in speed skating through the marriage of her husband, Bart Doan.