“Man, what a fantastic run in ’15, I could not have asked for a better way to end my career. Even though we lost the Super Bowl, that group of guys and the amount of fun we had. Coach Rivera, Brandon Beane, all those guys, Sean McDermott. You see the success Buffalo is having, and it’s not a shock whatsoever because the quality of people they were, and it made football really fun.”
For a guy who had exactly 2.0 sacks with the Panthers, he’s used that word a lot since being chosen for the Hall of Fame.
But that’s how much his short time in Charlotte meant to him, as he prepares to enter a new home — one for football eternity.
“I got to Carolina and joy, joy got brought back into football,” Allen said. “You know what, honestly, my last couple of years in Minnesota, from a fun standpoint, it wasn’t that fun playing football, right? I mean, because we had lost, we had several coaching changes, and we were going through another coaching change at the tail end, and so I went to Chicago. I just wanted to have fun. I wanted to win football games, and have fun playing, and then when I got to Chicago, I ended up being part of an organization that got gutted after my first year there. Again, I was like, oh my goodness.
“So I laugh when I look back at it now. I always say this. It was the worst production there I’ve ever had, and I went through injury. … But when I would come home, I was like we were having fun. Like football was fun again.”
And all it took was about three phone calls and a sixth-round pick.
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