Pro Player Insiders is working on educating the casual and hardcore football fan alike with a series of informative stories that will run over the course of the next couple of months. We will look to find out the origin of team names, obscure league history, and little known facts about each NFL team. Today, we continue our series of things you might not know with five things about the Carolina Panthers.
- Quarterback Cam Newton holds the Panthers single game passing record of 432 yards in Week 2 against the Green Bay Packers in 2011.
- The Panthers have had only one player inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and have rerired only one number. Reggie White played for the Panthers in 2000 and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2006. Linebacker Sam Mills number 51 was retired shortly after he passed away after battling cancer. Mills played for the team from 1995-1997 and coached from 1998-2005.
- The Carolina Panthers home stadium is named Bank Of America Stadium.
- The Panthers have made the playoffs four times in the team’s history (1996, 2003, 2005, 2008).
- The Panthers joined the NFL as an expansion team in 1995.
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