re: At 42, I don't give a damn about my lifelong NFL team anymore

I was the same way with the Falcons.

I was a Falcon's fan back in the days of Cannonball Butler and "The General" Bob Lee.

But I can't stand Arthur Blank. The minute I saw him pushing around Mike Vick in a wheelchair on the sideline, I felt like puking. And the way he inserts himself into the coaches on the sidelines at the end of games BEFORE they are over.

He's just always struck me as being one greasy son-of-a-gun. And his little pet GM I kind of despise too.

So I finally dumped'em. Me's-a Panthers fan now.