Sam Mills selected as HOF Finalist

I don't mind or take exception to Carolina wanting to honor Mills legacy, his career achievements, and contributions to help jumpstart and popularize the Panthers franchise in Carolina, he made an indelible impression on the team, city, region. Etc.


What I do have a problem with is this subtle or sometimes not-so-subtle inferences made by ex-teammates, coaches, Panthers fans, is that somehow Mills played his best and most memorable years as a Panther. I don't take kindly to bullshirt and I have low tolerance for revisionist history by some people in Carolinas trying to make it seem like Mills was there's and only there's. That's not being territorial, that's a team and organization making attempts to claim most of a great NFL player's accompllishments with their team even though that's not historically true or being fair to a generation of Saints fans, like me, who cheered our arses off for him and 3 other LB's as one of the greatest LB units in NFL history.