{"id":751233,"date":"2026-02-14T08:59:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T08:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/751233\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T08:59:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T08:59:17","slug":"panthers-fans-take-aim-at-musician-luke-combs-for-wearing-jaguars-hat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/751233\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers fans take aim at musician Luke Combs for wearing Jaguars hat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 13, 2026, 12:30 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Maybe there ain&#8217;t no love in Carolina for country music star Luke Combs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Grammy-nominated recording artist might not be up for a &#8220;Fan of the Year&#8221; award anytime soon, as some fellow members of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/carolina-panthers\/364\" data-autotag=\"8afac4d1-41b4-4302-b154-b45f5b48a0d2\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Panthers<\/a> faithful have taken exception to his choice of headwear. Combs, in promoting his new single, &#8220;Be By You,&#8221; posted some pictures of himself and his wife on Twitter\/X late Thursday night\u2014with at least one of the shots featuring a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/jacksonville-jaguars\/365\" data-autotag=\"0e187629-debe-49e8-9e02-83bd36ad3fcc\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> hat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A Huntersville, N.C. native, Combs has not been shy about <a href=\"http:\/\/pantherswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/panthers\/2024\/03\/11\/nfl-trade-rumors-luke-combs-panthers-giants-brian-burns\/79592779007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his Panthers fandom<\/a>. But other fans don&#8217;t seem so sure of that now . . .<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Combs responded . . .<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Then some more Panthers fans shot back . . .<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:7|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">While many folks take their fandom very seriously, Combs&#8217; cap is really much ado about nothing. This wouldn&#8217;t be the first time he or another popular musician repped the town they were performing for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">So hopefully for Combs, these fans will still learn to love him anyway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Follow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ThePanthersWire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">@ThePanthersWire<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter\/X for more Panthers content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 13, 2026, 12:30 p.m. ET Maybe there ain&#8217;t no love in Carolina for country music star Luke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060],"tags":[95878,7,212,125,2401,213,6,97114,97115,95882,96059,96696,107707,95936,96082,95888,95895,95899,95883,95894,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-751233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville-jaguars","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jacksonville","11":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","12":"tag-jacksonvillejaguars","13":"tag-jaguars","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnflpanthers","16":"tag-sstsnpanthers","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagcarolina-panthers","19":"tag-tagcelebrities-entertainment-news","20":"tag-tagcountry-music","21":"tag-tagjacksonville-jaguars","22":"tag-taglocal-affiliate-arts-entertainment","23":"tag-tagnfl","24":"tag-tagnfl-hub","25":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","26":"tag-tagsports-news","27":"tag-tagtwitter","28":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116068166315673927","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}