Fan injured as fights continue to break out between Carolina Panthers and New England Patriots

Footage has emerged of a fight breaking out between the Carolina Panthers and New England Patriots at practice. 

The preseason has got something of a bad reputation around the NFL. The games are often seen as meaningless, the attendance is usually a lot less than it would be for a regular season game as crowds aren’t interested in seeing 3rd or 4th string players play, and it can often lead to some severe injuries that cost players the season. 

But at the same time, players need some way of showing what they can do against actual competition. It’s all well and good making great catches in practice, but if your opposite number isn’t giving it their all in the name of ‘safety’, or if the drill is specifically designed to help the offense so defenders play at 50%, then you aren’t really learning a lot.

Not only that, but players need to get into game shape in order to maintain their fitness levels ahead of the season. Now the NFL has made some tweaks over the years, for instance there used to be six preseason games back in the 1970s, which was then reduced to four before settling on three ahead of last season when the league went to a 17-game regular season.

One thing that has become a lot more common in recent years in the NFL is ‘joint practices’, where two teams will spend a few days together during the week before playing a game on the weekend. It’s a practice that a lot of NFL coaches actually prefer, as it gives them more opportunities to control plays and players and work out exactly what they need rather than leaving it to chance that it comes in a game.

There is some belief that the league might move towards having more joint practices and holding fewer preseason games in the future, however whether or not the TV