For the 2015 Panthers, a particular season was largely a “fun” one

“Over time, you have losing seasons, you have the winning seasons, and I just think this was the perfect moment, the perfect season for all these things to kind of leak out of what we were already doing in practice in meeting rooms, bus rides, airplane rides, eating lunch together, whatever,” Stewart mentioned. “It was simply a possibility for us to essentially showcase our character a little bit bit extra as a result of we’re profitable.

“When you’re losing games, you’re not, you know, celebrating anything. It’s not fun playing football and losing games, but when you start the season off 6-0, that’s pretty fun, you know? So, I think that team, everybody had a presence about them. They understood that this was a special team, a special season. I think that was just a special, special time where, to the public, it was new, but for us it was something that was in our DNA.”

During these years, Stewart lived in a apartment close to work, so the immediacy of what was taking place at Bank of America Stadium was inescapable. And each time he went to work, he realized what town was experiencing.

“I lived right downtown, so every home game I would go to the elevator and look out of the window where I have a perfect view of the stadium,” he mentioned. “and I’m in a position to simply take within the expertise that lots of people are having and hopefully coming away with a win, in order that means all people can go on about their their their lives in a means that’s significant and impactful for the week. Sunday video games, Monday video games, after which the remainder of the week, having the ability to have this optimistic power to complete all through the week.

“And I feel while you discuss Charlotte, and also you roll up on some followers which have skilled 2015, the phrase, ‘What a time to be alive.’ That comes up lots. But folks say that lots as a result of it was a time to be alive.

“It made you feel alive.”

And for the Panthers that season, that was day-after-day.

Because it was a lot enjoyable, it by no means actually felt like work.