{"id":547301,"date":"2017-10-11T15:45:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T19:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=547301"},"modified":"2026-07-25T18:03:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T22:03:51","slug":"panthers-ron-rivera-sam-mills-integral-part-of-teams-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=547301","title":{"rendered":"Panthers Ron Rivera: Sam Mills integral part of team&#8217;s history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carolina Panthers head coach Ron Rivera discussed the importance of former linebacker Sam Mills during a press conference on Wednesday at Bank of America Stadium. Mills who became a linebackers coach battled intestinal cancer and gave the team the mantra Keep Pounding during a talk before the 2003 playoffs. The Panthers went to the Super Bowl that year. \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article178309646.html#storylink=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article178309646.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article178309646.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Panthers Ron Rivera: Sam Mills integral part of team&#039;s history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carolina Panthers head coach Ron Rivera discussed the importance of former linebacker Sam Mills during a press conference on Wednesday at Bank of America Stadium. Mills&#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-547301","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\/547301","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=547301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1899313,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547301\/revisions\/1899313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=547301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=547301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=547301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}