In 1995, Sam Mills wrote a new chapter here

Darin Gantt

CHARLOTTE - In the first few days of March 1995, the Carolina Panthers were still sort of an abstract concept.

The expansion team had uniforms, but not much to put in them yet - mostly strays that other teams hadn't wanted, projects and bodies to come to press conferences to whet the appetite of a region hungry for professional football. They applied some fiber to the roster in the expansion dr