Editor’s note: Nate Jackson, a San Jose native, spent six seasons in the NFL. This is his weekly Fantasy Football column for the Bay Area News Group. His books include “Slow Getting Up” and “Fantasy Man.”
An old guy with a gravelly voice and long grey hair crumples up his Ben Roethlisberger jersey and throws it in a fire pit. He douses it with lighter fluid and sets it ablaze — then posts it to Facebook, where it garners 5,000,000 views in half a day. He has been a Steelers fans for 38 years, and now it’s all over, he said.