The first time I walked into Panther Stadium (around 2000 I think) was indescribable, being a lifelong football player (grade 6-12)/fan (age 8-present). Goosebumps is what I felt. The energy from the crowd was off the chain insane; no wonder NFL players can play so wide open all the time! (That and their paychecks depend on it.) On the field in a small High School you rarely notice the crowd at all, unless you sit the bench. But I could not imagine 50k+ ppl cheering after a sack I had made. It has the be the closest thing to being a music superstar or Alist actor. This all coming from a biased lifelong football fan. To a child, it's a piece of Heaven. To the adult mind, however... it's dumb as shit. Men being payed millions to move a football around, while the rest of us struggle to make ends meet. I look at it now like Christmas - it's for the children - not us.
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