CHARLOTTE — Bank of America Stadium is going to be full of Panthers legends this weekend, and one of the most productive is being honored as the Legend of the Game.

Defensive end Mike Rucker, who is third on the team's all-time sack list with 55.5, will be on hand to hit the Keep Pounding drum heading into the fourth quarter. That means a little extra to him, since he was standing on the practice field the day Sam Mills said those famous words for the first time , ahead of the 2003 playoff game against the Cowboys.

Rucker, a second-round pick in 1999, experienced the ups and downs in his first five years here.

At one point, he was the young guy in a room that included Reggie White, and he was among the players who survived the 1-15 season in 2001, to turn it around with a Super Bowl r

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