For the ’97 Panthers, it “took a while” to get past Kerry Collins’ slur

The Riley Cooper situation in Philly is rare, but not unprecedented.  In 1997, former Panthers quarterback Kerry Collins used the same word Cooper did. Former Panthers G.M. Bill Polian explained on ESPN’s new NFL Insiders show that “it took a while” for the Panthers to get past Collins’ drunken use of a racial slur toward…