MEDIA ADVISORY
CAROLINA
PANTHERS AND KMART TO HOST 900 CHILDREN
AT PANTHERS NFL "FAMILY DAY" AT ERICSSON STADIUM
|Interactive Program To Provide Young Fans And Their Families
With NFL Game Day Experience
| WHAT: | The CAROLINA PANTHERS will team with Kmart to host 900 local children and their families at the inaugural Carolina Panthers Kmart NFL Family Days program. Panthers players will lead young fans ages 6-14 through non-contact skills clinics on the practice field at Ericsson Stadium. Children will be joined by their parents for tours of the locker room, press box, weight room and the club lounge. Players will sign autographs for each child in attendance. | |
| Panthers’ players will be available for media interviews. | ||
| Kmart NFL Family Days are also offered this season in Dallas, Detroit, Jacksonville; New York, Washington, D.C., and Oakland. | ||
| One lucky family will be selected as the Kmart NFL Family Days’ MVP Family, and will receive four tickets to an upcoming Panthers home game. The family will present a check for $5,000 on behalf of The Kmart Family Foundation to a Panthers’ team charity. | ||
| WHO: | PANTHERS’ ANDRE ROYAL, FRED LANE, KRIS MANGUM, WINSLOW OLIVER, DAMON PIERI, KINNON TATUM and JAMIE WILSON; and coach TED GILL | |
| 900 Charlotte-area boys and girls ages 6-14 | ||
| WHEN: | Saturday, October 4 | |
| WHERE: | Morning session: 8:45 - 11:45 a.m.; Afternoon session: 1:45-4:45 p.m. | |
| Ericsson Stadium | ||
| CONTACT: | |
| Brian McCarthy/Dave Lockett | Donna Joye |
| National Football League | Carolina Panthers |
| (212) 450-2000 | (704) 358-7479 |
Michele Jasukaitis
Kmart Corporation
(248) 643-5200