Rainy December weather prompted the Carolina Panthers to hold at least one of the final practices of the 2018 season in a Charlotte Convention Center ballroom. Without a covered practice facility to use, the Panthers practiced in sneakers on a carpeted floor.
That won’t cut it in the modern NFL, where 25 of the 32 teams have indoor practice facilities. And the Panthers new owner, David Tepper, appears to realize that.
“Let me just say this, I will be very surprised if we aren’t playing indoors before the end of next summer, for practice somehow or another,“ Tepper told the Charlotte Observer’s Jourdan Rodrigue before the Panthers-Steelers game in November, 2018.