Panthers board of directors ponder GM Remley's future

Carolina ownership unhappy with league run teams constantly trumping their own
By "Bucky Katz"

Off-Season 2153 (Charlotte) - Carolina Panthers GM 'Trader' Lee Remley was put on notice today by the team's Board of Directors that the team's performance has been unacceptable in lieu of the fact that the team keeps losing to unowned or 'league run' teams in the playoffs.

It began with several losses to Washington and now continues with a loss to New York.

'Our organization continues to suffer a great loss of face in losses to teams that are not actively managed,' the spokesman to the Japanese business consortium that ponied up the money to buy the Panthers decades ago said in a statement, his forearm tattooes only slightly visible under his expensive dress shirt. 'We will not tolerate continued failure by this management team. So despite the successes of the past, that is in the past. We want results now.'

Panthers GM 'Trader' Lee Remley himself refused to comment. 'This is an issue I no longer will discuss,' he said. 'I have made my feelings clear on the subject of league run teams. I don't blame the ya...er, ownership for wondering whather they would be better off with this team in a similar situation.'

Speculation in Charlotte has run rampant in the last week whether Remley would resign or most likely get terminated for his failure to get his team over the hump, especially given his recent comments to the media about league affairs.

Now that ownership has spoken also, and not so kindly regarding the performance of their GM, the pressure is really on him to produce a winner.

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