I came across a really great story today by Jason Cole of Yahoo! Sports about Carolina Panthers running backs DeAngelo Williams and Jonathan Stewart: apparently their love of the WWE and of Matt and Jeff Hardy have helped them bond as teammates:

DeAngelo Williams and Jonathan Stewart are really more Hardy Boys than Hardy Boyz.

Williams and Stewart, the Carolina Panthers’ highly effective 1-2 punch at running back, are a coach’s dream: two talented guys at the same position who don’t fuss about carries or worry about their statistics. They’re more interested in solving the mystery of how to win than strut around.

While that makes for a wonderful, warm-hearted and Pollyanna parallel with Frank and Joe Hardy, the fictional brothers who have been fighting the same basic crime for 80 years, Williams and Stewart have arrived at this partnership partly because of their shared interest in the Hardy Boyz. They would be the real-life wrestling brothers Matt and Jeff, who spend their time strutting to metal-head music in the look-at-me spotlight of the WWE.

“Those are my guys,” said Williams, with a whimsical grin on his face.

This is a really nice, positive story for the WWE. The pair of backs have rushed for a combined 1,980 yards and 23 touchdowns this year for the 11-3 Panthers, so it looks like they are doing something right. Hopefully we’ll see these guys front and center the next time Smackdown goes to Charlotte.

I know the biggest throw-down tonight will probably be the presidential debate (at least, for those of us in the US), but don’t forget to DVR ECW. It features an eight-man tag match: CM Punk, Kofi Kingston, Evan Bourne and Ricky Ortiz v. Cody Rhodes, Ted DiBiase, The Miz and John Morrison.

Since the last discussion post (TNA Impact!) to go up against a debate turned into a political discusison, I’ll just say this: Discuss ECW AND the Presidential debate here.