{"id":1181698,"date":"2021-01-07T11:13:12","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T16:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1181698"},"modified":"2026-07-25T18:49:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T22:49:34","slug":"ron-rivera-can-you-please-win-playoff-game-and-wipe-the-smirk-off-tom-bradys-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1181698","title":{"rendered":"Ron Rivera, can you please win playoff game and wipe the smirk off Tom Brady\u2019s face?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a sportswriter, I don&#8217;t root for or against the teams I cover regularly. We are objective observers, not cheerleaders. But I do root for good people, and always feel \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/spt-columns-blogs\/scott-fowler\/article248315270.html#storylink=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/spt-columns-blogs\/scott-fowler\/article248315270.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/spt-columns-blogs\/scott-fowler\/article248315270.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Ron Rivera, can you please win playoff game and wipe the smirk off Tom Brady\u2019s face?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a sportswriter, I don&#8217;t root for or against the teams I cover regularly. We are objective observers, not cheerleaders. But I do root for good&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1181698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-panthers","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-88-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1181698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1903577,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181698\/revisions\/1903577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1181698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1181698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1181698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}