The magical season for the hometown Carolina Panthers will continue this Saturday at 8:15pm at Bank of America Stadium as the Arizona Cardinals roll into town on the heels of their defeat of the rival Atlanta Falcons on Saturday.  The Panthers secured a first round bye and home field advantage by virtue of their season ending victory over the New Orleans Saints in their last game of the regular season and now it’s onto the ‘second season’ as many people call it.

It’s pretty exciting to have the NFL Playoffs coming to town and the Panther’s have a pretty good track record in the post-season.  The team has previously hosted 2 playoff games at home here in Charlotte, NC and have come out on top in both of those contests.  Those were pretty sweet victories as well because they were over the much-hated (at least in my household) Dallas Cowboys.

Even though it won’t be the Cowboys coming to town, the Cardinals will still present a pretty tough match-up, but I think our Panthers are up to the task of showing these birds just how smash-mouth football is suppossed to be played.

My prediction for the game:  Panthers 28 – Cardinals 14