I definitely think there was a period of my life where I was addicted to football before discovering the joys of alcohol, women and other vices. When I was a teenager I would be at a game somewhere every Saturday and Tuesday.
I will admit Oxford losses used to totally ruin my weekend when I was a teenager, when you can just go out to the pub with your mates or on a date somewhere with your missus it doesn't seem to bother me as much.
I used to also love watching Premier League football on TV. Most of my mates support a PL team (Im not from Oxford) and I just generally liked watching football at that level. My interest had wandered away from the PL a bit and then VAR came in and has killed it nearly stone dead. Watching it just makes me angry now, goals disallowed for toenails offside, players literally screaming when they get clipped in a tackle, boring robotic football.
I'd miss football massively now even if I'm not "addicted" to it in the same way I once was. I think I've always been as addicted to the culture around football (beers, clothes, being around your mates, away days etc) than I have to watching the game itself. I'd certainly feel lost on a Saturday without it.
I love football because it brings people together. I knew of a lad who was suicidal but the saturdays going to football with the lads kept him going and now he's in a better place. It will always be the beautiful game, even if money and technology try to corrupt it.