Luke DeCock

Carolina Panthers’ improbable win over Green Bay Packers worth the extra pump Rico Dowdle’s ‘excessive’ celebration could have been problematic for the Panthers. Instead, it was a humorous footnote to an improbable win.

The Panthers didn't just have to overcome the Packers and the Lambeau crowd for a historic 16-13 upset. They also had to overcome officials that missed a pop-culture reference.

It's three pumps for a penalty, right?

"That's my understanding," Rico Dowdle said.

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Fitzgerald's 49-yard attempt at the buzzer is good.

The Panthers have shocked the Packers with a 16-13 win, thanks to a defense that had an out-of-body experience on critical 3rd and 4th downs and 130 yards and two TDs (and two pumps) from Rico Dowdle.

A stunner as the Panthers move above .500.

Panthers drive down to the Packers 31 and Ryan Fitzgerald will have the game on his boot with a 49-field goal attempt as time expires.

It's a TD. Jacobs from the 1. XP is good. Tied at 13 with 2:32 to go. Panthers have two timeouts and the two-minute warning.

Packers stuffed at the 1 on 3rd down but they're challenging and that might be overturned. Pivotal replay with 2:01 to go.

Panthers flush Love and force an incompletion in the end zone on fourth down -- hit Mike Jackson in a bad spot, both hands -- but they still get the ball back on their own 12 and continue to make big plays on 3rd and 4th down.

I'm ready to write it!

The Panthers lost because the officials misinterpreted a pop-culture reference MY COLUMN

We go to the fourth with the Panthers up 13-6 and hoping the Dowdle penalty that led to the extra-long extra point is not a talking point afterward.

(The celebration was a Hingle McCringleberry tribute, IYKYK)

Xavier Legette gets grabbed in the end zone for PI, Dowdle punches it in from the 1 for his second TD (and picks up a personal foul for his celebration).

So the XP is a 48-yarder, and way short.

Panthers 13, Packers 6, 2:12 to go in the third.

Jordan Love throws a deep ball that was either always up for grabs or taken for a ride by the swirling wind, but either way Tre'von Moehrig is the only player in the zip code.

Moehrig returns the pick across midfield and the Panthers have another opportunity to make a statement.

Panthers force another field goal on the first drive of the second half and this one's wide left from 43.

Massive drive now for the Panthers, who have a chance to take control and make a bunch of Wisconsinites very unexpectedly uncomfortable.

Jaycee Horn with good defense on Romeo Doubs in the end zone on third down to hold the Packers to a field goal at the end of the half.

Panthers lead 7-6, doing a good job keeping the GB offense off the field.

Rico Dowdle punches it in from 5 yards out and -- 🚨this is not a drill🚨 -- the Panthers are leading at Lambeau, 7-3 late in the second quarter.

Dowdle averaging 5.5 a carry despite missing a few plays with a banged-up shoulder.

The Panthers kept the Packers off the board for 22 minutes, and even that's only a field goal.

Bryce Young not old enough to get that call.

Bit of a detour today … helping out our colleagues in Charlotte with the Panthers. @mikekayefootball.bsky.social and me are the road team in Green Bay.

Baseball!

Do it for Derek Bell’s car

Charloltte’s got a lolt

“…here in Raleigh-Durham” — Matt Shumacker

NC State beating Georgia Tech — with a one-legged CJ Bailey slinging it and outplaying the presumptive ACC POY — would do as much damage to the ACC’s future as the expansion vote flip-flop. Not that the Wolfpack would (or should) care. Carter-Finley always a different kind of place at night.

a group of men are watching a game between duke and carolina ALT: a group of men are watching a game between duke and carolina

The only thing funnier in sports than the bullpens running in from center field.

“Packed into Carter-Finley Stadium for homecoming in Raleigh-Durham.”

“Jesus is any of your fuckin relatives still alive?” gets me every time

They’re on an all-time three-coach run, really.

If you’ve lived here for a while, it’s still a little crazy every time it hits you that Duke has the most stable and highest-performing football program in the state.

Maybe the ACC ought to grab those two automatic CFP berths in the Big Ten expansion proposal after all.

A whole bunch of college hoops preview stuff in this thread ⬇️