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The Carolina
Panthers
Across the Carolinas, support for
an NFL expansion team poured in at an unprecedented
rate. U.S. Sens. Jesse Helms of North Carolina
and Ernest Hollings of South Carolina lobbied
NFL owners on the Carolinas behalf. Likewise,
North Carolina Gov. Jim Martin and South Carolina
Gov. Carroll Campbell formed a blue-ribbon committee
of leading citizens in both states. Fans demonstrated
their enthusiasm by selling out preseason games
in Raleigh, NC in 1989, Chapel Hill, NC in 1990
and Columbia, SC in 1991.
At the League owners meeting on
March 18, 1992, the NFL reduced the list of expansion
candidate cities from eleven to seven with the
Carolinas making the cut. Two months later, the
NFL narrowed the list of expansion hopefuls to
five communities – Baltimore, St. Louis,
Memphis, Jacksonville and the Carolinas.
However, on October 20, 1992, NFL
owners decided to delay the expansion vote until
the fall of 1993 because of a labor dispute between
the League and the players. Fortunately, on January
6, 1993, the League and the players approved a
new Collective Bargaining Agreement. On March
23, 1993, the expansion race officially resumed.
On June 3, Richardson Sports revealed
its impressive plan to privately finance a 72,300-seat
stadium from the sale of Permanent Seat Licenses,
club seats and luxury boxes, beginning on July
1. A remarkable 15,000 pieces of mail from first-day
orders were collected. By the end of the first
day, all 8,314 club seats sold out and all 104
luxury suites were reserved and ultimately leased.
First-day PSL orders totaled 41,632.