Meet the Panthers Night for Burn Victim a Success

14-year-old Connor McKemey has been recovering since December from an accident that left him with third-degree burns over most of his body, and yesterday in celebration of his homecoming from the Joseph M. Still Burn Center in Augusta, Georgia and the Levine Children’s Hospital at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, several Carolina Panthers set up a Meet the Panthers night at the Towne Tavern in Fort Mill, making McKemey the star of the show.

QB Jake Delhomme was onsite for the Meet the Panthers night in honor of burn victim Connor McKemey, as were fellow Panthers Jordan Gross, Travelle Wharton, Jon Beason and DeAngelo Williams. Reflecting on the event, Gross said, “When you see a kid like Connor who’s gone through so much… he should be the hero, not us.”

Delhomme had a similar reaction to Gross’, saying, “What we do for a living, why it’s such a big deal, I don’t know. Whatever we can do to give back, we do.” Proceeds from the event, of which more than 1,000 people attended, will go to the Tega Cay Fire Department, which came to McKemey’s rescue in December. Before the accident, Connor McKemey was a football player at Gold Hill Middle School.

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