The NFL is back which means so are raucous crowd fights, just not on the watch of Carolina Panthers wide receiver D.J. Moore.
Thursday evening, the Panthers held their Fan Fest celebration, an annual tradition of welcoming fans into their home Bank of America Stadium to watch team practice, fireworks and other performances. And during the fans first opportunity to enter Charlotte’s NFL stadium to cheer on their hometown Panthers this season, it didn’t take long for two people in the stands to put up their fists.
But before the two Panthers fans could start raining blows upon each other, Moore jumped into the stands to say knock it off, and they obliged. We’re talking about Fan Fest. Not a game, we’re talking about Fan Fest, how silly is that?
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I will never excuse a crowd fight, but it’s at least a little more understandable when it happens between rival fanbases who just spent three hours drinking in the parking lot before a game. But this was between two Panthers fans at a family-friendly weeknight celebration.
I don’t know what it is about crowd fights, but they seem to be a lot more frequent of late. Maybe it’s a lack of security, maybe it’s an influx of people willing to film everything on their phones, or maybe it’s that some of us still haven’t readjusted to being out in public after the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
So how do we fix all the brutal crowd fights? I nominate D.J. Moore.
