Last week on the Bill Rosinski Show, Bill asked a good question: Why is there such little TV coverage devoted to the Panthers?

As a former DC resident for 9 years, I noticed a trend: in D.C., even if a TV station station is not carrying a Redskins game, they probably have a special program starring a former Redskins player. It usually airs pre-game up to gametime.

After moving to Charlotte I was amazed by the lack of coverage of the Panthers. Even the Observer has limits of the coverage they can provide. Tom Sorenson, Scott Fowler and Pat Yasinskas are only human.

Sadly, we have only the "Panthers Huddle" each week which is good, but can sometimes be painful to watch. The Monday night "Panther Talk" on another station is good (it's better in person). Aside from that, the TV coverage of Panthers games is limited to stations moaning about how bad traffic is going to be in uptown.

Here's a news flash local "news" stations: it's been this way for 12 years. Here's another news flash: It's going to be bad after every game. It's no longer news. (Along those lines, how about reporting news instead of getting your headlines from a police scanner. No one cares about rednecks killing rednecks.)

I'm not surprised by the lack of TV coverage of the Panthers. Like fans attending the games, any Panthers TV program that is aired will be turned off 3/4 of the way through it.

It would be great if retired local players like Brentson Buckner, Mike Minter and Steve Beurlein were put in charge of producing a pre-game show each week.

When the clock hits 0:00 in the fourth, those two lone fans wearing Panthers colors sitting in 126 will be my wife and I. Our cheese doesn't start to go bad when the third quarter begins.