David Tepper Takes Care Of The Jerry Richardson Statue
So I was alerted to a little story this past week about the Panthers. I didn’t know this, but there is a statue of Jerry Richardson and two panthers outside BoA Stadium.
It’s…creepy. The panthers are actually pretty frightening. They are fairly detailed and they aren’t cartoony fun sportz panthers like the logo, but hyper scary panthers with super muscles and pretty intense faces. Especially the pouncing one. If I was a kid this statue would frighten me. As an adult it’s pretty impressive but seems off, somehow inappropriate. Probably because instead of just being a couple of badass creepy panthers, Jerry Richardson is standing in the middle holding out a football like a god handing you a starting weapon in a video game.
It is one hell of a little ego monument. LOOK AT ME, I BROUGHT YOU FOOTBALL, CAROLINA. WORSHIP ME. It might have been okay if Richardson was dead, or retired, but he wasn’t. He had this out in front of the stadium before he was even disgraced. That’s pretty tacky. Now that he is disgraced and has been forced to sell the team, it’s a further monument to his tainted legacy. And the asshole actually stuck it in his sale contract that the statue has to stay. What an ego on that guy.
Anyway I’m sure the Panthers will figure something out. David Tepper and his big ol’ brass balls are bound to find a solution. I would be in favor of gluing Tepper’s infamous brass balls to Jerry’s forehead. Make the sexual harasser have a statue of himself getting forever sexually harassed. I love ironic punishments.
It is kind of ironic now…you see the panthers in the statue first, but then you realize the worst predator is in the middle.
“Not to worry! I found these giant cardboard cutouts of Papa John we can place all around the statue to hid it. Everything’s okay now!”
Yikes – Pat McAfee
There’s got to be some kind of liquidated damages clause that would allow Tepper to buy out the right to control the statue, or a sunset provision limiting how long the statue has to stay up. Otherwise there’s an alienability problem and courts don’t like sales contracts that tie up the buyer’s right to resell the property.
At some point that statue will come down, and probably be replaced by a third panther standing alert or something.
They should put an old time-y jail cell around the statue, making it appear that Richardson’s in jail without actually touching the original statue. Like the statuary equivalent of a cover up tattoo.
And Dave, I am surprised that you didn’t relish the opportunity to render the statue’s anatomically correct panther gonads.
just FYI, Richardson didn’t have the statue commissioned of himself. it was gift from Bank of America, Duke Energy and other sponsors of the team for his 80th Birthday.
That statue would make a totalitarian dictator say, “eh… it’s a bit much, isn’t it?”
Still better than Houston, which has two separate sets of bucking bulls… that are terrifyingly missing their limbs.
Phew, for one I thought you were gonna do a comic on the LeSean McCoy situation, which I think is too soon to satire. It’s one ugly situation, but aside from a mostly vague police report it’s been mostly allegations.
Also, statues are the worst. I used to be scared of them as a kid for a good reason
It’s also so weird. If I was Dave I’d wait until more info came out that makes one story or the other more likely, if I was even willing to do a comic on it at all.
“…then you realize the worst predator is in the middle.”
Drop the mic!
Just have cam pose next to the statue in a ridiculous outfit, people will be so enraged by his “Smugness” they’ll demand the statue be taken down to spite cam.
The worst part is the amount of people here in the Carolinas still worshiping this guy like he’s some kind of saint just for bringing us a football team. I mean, I get it, the Panthers are my team too, but that doesn’t make him any less of a scumbag.
So he made inappropriate comments to female employees and was heard to make a racial slur. Is that the whole of it? Given the continuing presence of certain folks in the NFL who had bigger scandals, I’m surprised this one lead to an owner stepping down. Am I missing additional details?
yeah since someone exists who is worse we can give this guy a pass
By no means. From what I read, I expected an apology and a half dozen settlement pay outs. I’m merely expressing my surprise that he was run out of town given NFL precedent. Like, hasn’t Jerry Jones been accused of pretty much the exact same thing?
fair point
or why commish devil horns hasn’t been run out of town
though in that case i suppose gross incompetence is on a different playing field
It makes me wonder if there was more behind the scenes drama we didn’t know about, and maybe him stepping down kept it quiet as part of a deal.
There’s also the fact that this happened at the height of #MeToo, which actually seemed to punish offenders stronger than normal almost “as examples” like how Hollywood is probably still all sorts of messed up but they can use Harvey Weinstein as the entire scapegoat and pretend like they fixed it by getting rid of a few of the worst offenders we found out about.
Same
Pacman is back in the news!
Paint it rainbow colors and put flowers all around it and see how long he wants it to stay
Does anyone know the penalty if he decides to remove it?
15 yards and a loss of down
If I could click like I would.
Something like that would only become public if it’s activated. Like I said above, courts don’t generally like sellers placing heavy restrictions on a buyer’s ability to resell property, so it’s probably just money Tepper didn’t feel like paying just yet.
George Shinn got there first – 4 years earlier.
Granted, the Raleigh-Durham Skyhawks were hilariously shit, but still…