i am working and living in Fayetteville, NC... i have yet to meet a bonafide Panthers fan... with Fort Bragg and Camp Lejeune and Cherry Point, there is a big military presence in NC... so people are loyal to their own home teams... in addition, with the older established teams like the Red Skins, Saints and Buccaneers, it seems to me that the Panthers are more of a secondary favorite team around here... the people i work with are mainly Red Skins fans... they are people who have been in NC forever... i live in a household of Niner fans as we are from the Bay Area... and i work with another Niner fan... she was born in the Bay Area...
We live in central Virginia. We’ve attended several Panthers games and been in the middle of the celebrations in the street.