Last week at the Panthers-49ers game, Bank of America Stadium was a sea of red jerseys.

• It's hard to know if opposing fans outnumbered Panthers fans, but it sure looked like it. The home crowd was anemic.

What's happening: Empty seats at Bank of America Stadium — or seats filled with opposing fans — have become an increasingly common sight as the Panthers' losses mount.

• When casual fans opt out of paying to see a habitually losing team, all you're left with is the small cadre of die-hards with season tickets.

Why it matters: Plenty of Panthers fans are not only skipping traveling to see the team, they're not showing up to home games. That helps erode any home-field advantage — and it dulls the mood.

• "At this point, they're not even angry anymore," said Zack Luttrell, who started the Roaring Riot fan group in 2008. "People just don't care. They're totally uninterested in the team, and I don’t blame them."

By the numbers: In past losing seasons, Roaring Riot would still routinely travel with around 300 fans to away games. This year, Luttrell has four trips with fewer than 50 Panthers fans confirmed to attend.

• Roaring Riot has also trimmed its staff from six to two, Luttrell says, because of a revenue decline stemming from the team's lack of success and restricted game attendance during the pandemic.

Flashback: The current environment on Mint Street seems like a lifetime removed from the magical 2015 season, which culminated in a trip to the Super Bowl.

• But so much of what fans loved about that season — Cam Newton, Luke Kuechly, Thomas Davis, dabbing, Thieves Ave. (the name defensive backs gave themselves), coach Ron Rivera — is long gone.

Yes, but: Plenty of longtime fans are upbeat, and even optimistic, about what's to come under interim head coach Steve Wilks.

• PSL owner Patrick Nance wishes fans wouldn't boo their home team, which has happened enough recently at Bank of America Stadium. He also wants to remind dejected fans that sports are supposed to be fun.

"If your hobby is making you so miserable that you find yourself being overtly negative publicly about everything, I feel you need a new hobby," he says.

Full story: Some Panthers are worse than mad — they just don't care

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• "Peter felt the best part of his work was seeing the final impact of a project everyone said was impossible," county manager Dena Diorio said in an email to staff.

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