Luke Combs\u00a0is the\u00a0highest-selling\u00a0country artist of all time, but he’s also a diehard Carolina Panthers fan.<\/p>\n
Last year, Luke went viral after lighting up the Panthers’ front office during an appearance on\u00a0“The Pat McAfee Show”.<\/p>\n
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He basically said what every frustrated fan was thinking, but he specifically called out owner\u00a0David Tepper\u00a0for the team’s struggles.<\/p>\n
But then Luke had to meet David face-to-face to ask him to use his stadium for the Concert for Carolina hurricane benefit\u00a0with\u00a0Eric Church.<\/p>\n
He said the two ended up talking for an hour, and David eventually admitted he’d seen the clip.<\/p>\n
But Luke laughed it off and said they’re “in good graces” now.<\/p>\n
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Luke stood by his comments, though and reminded everyone that he’s just a fan who cares deeply about his team.<\/p>\n
The Panthers are sitting at 4-3 this season, which is their first winning record this late in the season since 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carolina Panthers","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":32036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[5328,5722,6715,59,101,583,5699],"class_list":["post-45977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-concert-for-carolina","tag-david-tepper","tag-eric-church","tag-luke-combs","tag-nfl","tag-pat-mcafee"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 08:53:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/10\/luke-combs-had-an-awkward-encounter\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45977"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45989,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45977\/revisions\/45989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}