Pick a Team: The Carolina Panthers

Well, I suppose it serves me right. After 50 or so years as a Cleveland Browns fan, I lost the feeling. And in the first game of my new life, the Browns win a road season opener (first time in 28 years) on a last-second 58-yard field goal after a pretty absurd roughing-the-passer penalty goes their way.

And I was trying to root for the other team.

Maybe a…