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Thousands of fans sign petition for David Tepper to sell the Carolina Panthers
More than 3,700 people have signed an online petition calling for Carolina Panthers David Tepper to sell the franchise.
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More than 3,700 people have signed an online petition calling for Carolina Panthers David Tepper to sell the franchise.
>> WE'RE GOING OVER TO DAN OUT THAN OVER TO YOU. HEY, HI, EVERYBODY. THINGS ARE GOING GREAT. LOOK, I WANT TO TALK FOR JUST A SECOND ABOUT SOMETHING. WE WANT TO GO IN-DEPTH ON. LET'S TURN THINGS AROUND. LET'S TALK ABOUT BEING A BILLIONAIRE. IT WOULD THAT BE NICE? IT'S HARD TO REALLY CONCEIVE HOW MUCH MONEY THAT ACTUALLY HERE'S MY FAVORITE WAY TO KIND OF WRAP MY HEAD AROUND IT. IF YOU WERE TO COUNT THE SECONDS WITHOUT STOPPING FROM FROM ONE TO 1 MILLION, IT WOULD TAKE ABOUT 11 DAYS TO GET THERE. IF YOU CAN'T COUNTING ITS, WE REACHED A BILLION. IT WOULD TAKE YOU 31 YEARS. LITTLE DIFFERENCE THERE. NOW KEEP COUNTING TO 20 BILLION AND YOU'LL REACH THE NET WORTH OF CAROLINA PANTHERS OWNER DAVID TEPPER. SO WHEN THE NFL FINED HIM $300,000 FOR THROWING HIS DRINK AT FANS FROM HIS LUXURY BOX IN JACKSONVILLE, IT WOULD BE THE EQUIVALENT OF FINDING YOU OR ME OR THE AVERAGE PERSON ABOUT A BUCK. NOW I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE THINKING OF A DRINK THROWN AN NFL GAME. UNBELIEVABLE. UNHEARD OF. NEVER SEEN SUCH A THING. EITHER WAY. TEPPER POLISH EYES. HE WROTE A STATEMENT THAT SAID IN PART I REGRET MY BEHAVIOR AND I SHOULD HAVE LET SECURITY HANDLE ANY ISSUE SO ON AND SO FORTH. THAT SECTOR, HE NEVER REALLY SAID THE WORD. SORRY, NOT TWITTER SAID THE APOLOGY REMINDED THEM OF THIS FROM THE OFFICE. I STATE MY REGRET. IN THE MIND COULD NOT BECAUSE I DID NOT FEEL IT. THAT'S HILARIOUS. INTERNET REMAINS UNDEFEATED AND SOME PEOPLE HOPE TO USE THAT POWER ON THE INTERNET TO OUST TEMPER FROM THE TEAM. THIS CHANGE DOT ORG PETITION HAS 3,000 SIGNATURES OF FANS WHO WANT TEMPERED TO BE FIRED BY THE LEAGUE. THEY CITE THE TEAM'S HORRIBLE RECORD, THE BAD PERSONNEL DECISIONS AND THE WHOLE DRINK THING TO NAME A FEW. NOW, IF YOU'RE WONDERING THAT PETITION IS ENTIRELY FRIVOLOUS. I MEAN, ANYONE CAN POST SOMETHING ON THE CHANGE DOT ORG. THERE'S CURRENTLY A PETITION WITH 25,000 SIGNATURES TO SELL MONTANA TO CANADA FOR 1 TRILLION DOLLARS. BUT THAT'S NOT REALLY THE MAIN REASON THE PETITION HAS NO TEETH. IT'S MAINLY BECAUSE THE CAROLINA PANTHERS, WE ARE NOT YOUR TEAM. IT IS. YOU KNOW, TECHNICALLY IF YOU READ THE NFL RULES ALL THE OTHER TEAM OWNERS CAN COME TOGETHER. THEY CAN DECIDE TO VOTE HIM OUT. BUT LOOK, IT'S NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN, ACTUALLY, THAT THAT NEARLY HAPPENED LAST YEAR WITH COMMANDERS OWNER DAN SNYDER, WHEN HE WAS CHARGED WITH HARASSMENT AND MISAPPROPRIATING MONEY. BUT HE WALKED AWAY BEFORE ANYTHING COULD GO DOWN. HE SOLD THE TEAM. HE MAY BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IF THEY WERE WILLING TO DRAW THAT LINE THERE WITH HIM, YOU REALLY THINK THEY'RE GOING TO DRAW WITH DRINK, THROWING? THEY DIDN'T DRAW THAT LINE WITH PATRIOTS OWNER ROBERT KRAFT WHEN HE WAS ARRESTED FOR SOLICITING A AT A FLORIDA MASSAGE PARLOR OR WHEN RAIDERS OWNER MARK DAVIS GOT HIS HAIR CUT. THE LIST. GOES ON. LOOK, WHEN I LIVED IN SAN DIEGO FOR A FEW YEARS, CHARGERS FANS COULDN'T STAY IN THE TEAM OWNER. HE KEPT ASKING THE CITY TO HELP FUND A NEW STADIUM, BUT VOTERS KEPT SAYING NO BY YOURSELF. SO HE TOOK HIS BALL AND HIS PLAYERS AND HIS COACHES AND HIS TEAM, ANYONE TO LAS ANGELES, DESPITE THE CHARGES BEING IN SAN DIEGO FOR NEARLY 6 DECADES, IT WASN'T THEIR TEAM. IT WAS IS. SOMETHING THAT'S TRUE FOR EVERY TEAM IN THE LEAGUE EXCEPT ONE THE GREEN BAY PACKERS ARE A NONPROFIT. A GUARDIAN ARTICLE CALLED WHERE FANS RATHER THAN A BILLIONARE ARE. THE OWNERS LAYS IT ALL OUT. THE TEAM IS OWNED BY OVER 500,000 INDIVIDUAL FANS, WHICH IS ONE REASON WHY A CITY THAT'S SMALLER THAN KERRY STILL HAS AN ICONIC NFL FRANCHISE. IF YOU THINK THIS SOUNDS A GOOD IDEA TO BAD OR SHOULD I SAY TOO LATE IN 1960. THEN NFL COMMISSIONER PETE ROZELLE ROAD INTO THE LEAST CONSTITUTION IN A SECTION KNOWN AS THE GREEN BAY RULE. THE FUTURE TEAMS MUST BE ORGANIZED AS NOT AS FOR PROFIT AND CITIES. THEY WANT YOUR MONEY. THEY WANT TO PROFIT AND THEY'RE GETTING IT. LOOK, YOU MIGHT NOT THINK THE DAVID TEPPER IS A GOOD OWNER, BUT HE'S A HECK OF A BUSINESSMAN. TEPPER BOUGHT THE PANTHERS IN 2018 FOR 2.0, 2, 7, 5 BILLION DOLLARS TODAY. IT'S WORTH 4.1 BILLION IN WHITE THAT THAT HE MIGHT BE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL THAT BARREL IS ON A ROCKET SHIP. IF YOU LOOK AT THE 100 MOST WATCHED BROADCAST OF 2022, OUT OF THE MOST, THE WATCH 100 82 OF THEM WHERE THE NFL LOOK, I GET IT. I WAS I WAS RAISED TO STEELER FAN. I WAS BORN A STEELERS FAN. THE DOCTOR'S WRAPPED ME IN A TERRIBLE TOWEL. WHEN I WAS BORN. THAT'S A TRUE STORY. FANDOM RUNS DEEP. IT'S ABOUT IDENTITY AND CONNECTION AND THAT'S BEING THREATENED OR MISTREATED. WE GET PASSIONATE. WE GET FRUSTRATED. WE CAN ACT OUT JUST DON'T THROW ANYTHING. WE KNOW THAT LEADS. LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THIS TOPIC OR ANY OTHER ABOUT THE SEGMENT. HE SENT ME AN E-MAIL, DAN AT