Anyway, I am going to send this small little piece of advice out to others. It is small, because I am struggling. However, I am a USC Trojan and I love watching my team. I have vowed that this year I will watch them sober. I have succeded in that small vow, so far (5 games). It works..for me. I am still working on ways to stay sober otherwise..... but this small committment has worked for me on Saturdays....which is hugh.
And UCLA guy, if you are out there, THANKS. Seeing your post several months ago, helped me. But you will have to torture me before I will ever admit that an UCLA helped me!!
). Any-who, we gets down to the hang-out, &--I realized that (the sport-a choice on this end is hockey)...I remembered I used to watch the game&liked it, & the team was my team-a choice...only thing was...I had no clue as to who the players were, all the one's I'd known had been traded off to other teams. Thing is, I'm watchin', & I see my team jersey's, I hear the announcer sayin' the team name, only he's sayin' names I'd never heard before, 'cept for 2 of 'em. So, we'd be watchin', &--just like I'd woke up after bein' asleep--for a couple-a years...I'd say, where's so&so? One-a the guys would say. I'd say, well how long's he been gone? They'd chuckle...it's like I'd been outta the country (or--let's put this into AA jargon...outta the universe?? 
). Some-a them player's hadn't been on "my team" for only the season...but some-a them had been gone for, indeed, a couple-a 
...Not that there's anythin' wrong w/ Flutie goin' state-side--that was just another example-a how much I missed...how much I "left behind" to just drink. No news flash there I s'pose 