Leicester Panthers

Dean, what do you do, mate? Give us a bit of that.

What do I not do? Obviously, you know who I am from the Leicester Panthers.

Owner, general manager, head coach, right guard, and everything else in between.

And then it's only spilled over as to...

mate.

So, obviously, I've not been in the game too long, to be honest, as yourself.

But obviously, stepping into the role of owning the Leicester Panthers has sort of slingshot me into understanding it at quite a quick pace to find out what... issues there are and so forth obviously the panthers were dropping from grace when we when i took over in the prem all the way to div one to div two yeah and then we saw a rebuild from that um obviously i won't um there's not much i can say about baffa they have helped me out considerably helping me to understand how i need to register the club, run the club, what I need to do, vice versa, like running this club to where it is today.

So Joe Walker has been fantastic for myself as a, as a, as a point of contact.

So American football is fairly popular in the UK.

And Sean Payton was the starting quarterback of the Leicester Panthers in 1988.

so the lester has a it did it disbanded okay it got relegated down to no it just

disbanded in the 90s and um i got chance to be a game day coordinator for the lester panthers when they reformed to raise money for a guy

He plays as a replacement player, a so-called Spare Bear, for the Chicago Bears during the 1987 NFL players strike.

But my absolute favorite part of his playing resume is his time in the United Kingdom playing for the Leicester Panthers.

Oh, the UK league?

Yeah.