The term "die-hard" fan is being used way too loosely around Panther fans. Students who spend their own money and go to every drivable road game and have NO AFFILIATION with any player other than WE'RE ALL PANTHERS are the only students who can be labeled "die-hard" fans.

These are the students who go to every home game, drive 90 minutes to Loyola, drive 90 minutes to UIC, drive 3 hours to Valpo, drive 2 hours to Green Bay, drive 6 hours to Detroit just to drive 3 and a half more hours to Wright State in the same weekend, drive 9 hours to Youngstown and stay there 2 days to catch the Cleveland State game and rush back to Milwaukee on a Sunday night to make it to class in time on Monday morning, drive 5 hours to UNI, 90 minutes to Madison, 80 minutes to DePaul, pay $9 to watch them get blown out by UALR, watch practices, dig up dirt on players to get in their heads, do anything they can to help make a difference in any way that may lead to a Panthers victory.

There are 6 students who are currently enrolled at UWM who can actually say they are "die-hards." Those six do everything that was stated above. Why do they do this? Because they LOVE Panther Athletics. They BLEED black and gold. Maybe they do it for school pride. Maybe they do it because they love sports. Maybe they do it because they would give anything to be one of the players actually on the team and would play for the name on the front because they love that more than the name on the back.

There are a handful of "die-hard" alumni as well. There aren't enough, but that can be brought up in a different thread.

At the end of the day, we are all Panthers. We are all one family.