Super Bowl

There was a time when the Super Bowl was a pretty big deal to me. Mostly this was in my drinking days, when there'd be a huge Super Bowl Party at Nobby's, my hangout for sports in those days, and it would be a potluck kind of deal, and part of it would be to announce the winner of the season long contest in picking winners. Ah, I remember the year that a WOMAN won this, to considerable male chagrin. Fun times!

I could never agree with my counselor in treatment that I should dismiss my drinking days as "bad old days." I had far too much fun to do this. I just figure that was then, and this is now. Different modes. And my attitude can't have been as "destructive" as the Party Line insisted since, after all, I'm the only one in my whole damn VA class, some 30 guys, for whom sobriety "stuck." Even one of my counselors relapsed. Yeah, I loved much about my drinking days but I also wanted to live longer, which I have done. Yeah, Super Bowls at Nobby's in the 1980s were great fun.