While Carolina begins a new era with Cam Newton, the core piece of our original Panthers team has decided to call it quits after a 16 year career. His 4 year career in Carolina was one of early success culminating in a heroic playoff run in 1996, but then a quick fall due to his alcoholism and his supposed ‘quitting on the team.’ After he then went on to have some pretty good years with the Giants and more recently with the Titans as well, I can understand why a lot of our older Panther fans don’t like him. Maybe it's a good omen?