Carolina Panthers Milestones

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How the Carolina Panthers history timeline works

This deck covers Panthers franchise moments, each with a sentence of description, and you put them in order by the year they happened. You start with one card down and its year showing. Pick a gap for every new card. If it's right, the year appears; if it's wrong, the card still finds its true place and you lose one of three lives.

Carolina is one of the league's newer franchises, so the cards are packed into a tight window with something in almost every season. Big highs and sudden lows sit right next to each other, from Super Bowl runs to rock-bottom records. Nicknamed teams and quarterback moves are the hardest to order, and the descriptions about coaches are your best help.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

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Here are 27 of the 27 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

Carolina awarded the NFL's 29th franchise Jerry Richardson's expansion bid won out in October, with play set to begin two years later
Played the first Panthers season The expansion team won seven games, a record for a first-year franchise, while playing home games at Clemson
Opened their stadium in Charlotte The Panthers moved into their new uptown home and stunned the league by going 12-4
Reached the NFC Championship Game in year two The magical second season ended with a January loss at Lambeau Field to the eventual champion Packers
Hired George Seifert The two-time Super Bowl-winning 49ers coach came out of retirement to take over Carolina
Hit rock bottom at 1-15 Rookie Steve Smith's opening-week kickoff return touchdown came in the only win before fifteen straight losses
Drafted Julius Peppers New coach John Fox watched the local star go second overall and win Defensive Rookie of the Year as Carolina joined the new NFC South
The Cardiac Cats Jake Delhomme's first Carolina season produced an 11-5 record built on a string of last-minute wins
Lost Super Bowl XXXVIII on a final-seconds kick A shootout with New England in Houston ended on Adam Vinatieri's field goal with four seconds left
Steve Smith won the receiving triple crown Back from a broken leg, Smith led the NFL in catches, receiving yards and receiving touchdowns
Fell in the NFC Championship in Seattle A January road run behind Smith and Delhomme ended one game short against the Seahawks
Double Trouble's 12-4 season DeAngelo Williams ran for eighteen touchdowns as Carolina claimed the NFC's No. 2 seed
Drafted Cam Newton first overall The Auburn Heisman winner threw for a rookie-record 4,051 yards in his debut season
Drafted Luke Kuechly The Boston College tackling machine went ninth overall and won Defensive Rookie of the Year
Riverboat Ron's breakthrough Ron Rivera won Coach of the Year and Luke Kuechly Defensive Player of the Year during a 12-4 campaign
Won the division at 7-8-1 Carolina claimed the NFC South with a losing record, then won a home playoff game anyway
The 15-1 season Cam Newton dabbed his way through an MVP campaign as Carolina scored 500 points
Lost Super Bowl 50 Von Miller and the Broncos' defense smothered the league MVP in Santa Clara
Drafted Christian McCaffrey The do-everything Stanford running back went eighth overall
David Tepper bought the team The hedge-fund billionaire paid a then-record $2.275 billion after Jerry Richardson put the club up for sale
Fired Ron Rivera The franchise's winningest coach was let go in December of a lost season, with Cam Newton sidelined by a foot injury
Released Cam Newton The former MVP was cut in the same offseason that Luke Kuechly retired and Matt Rhule was hired
Cam Newton came back Re-signed at midseason, Newton scored on his first drive back and shouted 'I'm baaack!' against Arizona
Traded Christian McCaffrey The star back went to San Francisco for a haul of draft picks, days after Matt Rhule was fired
Traded up for Bryce Young Carolina sent D.J. Moore and premium picks to Chicago for the No. 1 selection, then finished 2-15
Hired Dave Canales The Buccaneers' offensive coordinator took over following the league-worst season
Drafted Tetairoa McMillan The Arizona receiver went eighth overall to give Bryce Young a true No. 1 target