>>22973638 (OP)I get it, but it's still kind of stupid.
I started watching sports with my brother-in-law when the OU sooners won the College Football National Championship in 2000. It was the first sports game I ever really cared to watch.
It was especially interesting to me because some of the guys on the team went to high school with me at Moore High School/Highland East. I even had them in my classes. And Moore High School won the "Moore War" football game every year with West Moore during that period.
Anyway, my brother-in-law was a massive sports fan and basically spent most of his time not working watching sports. Didn't matter the time of year, there was always some kind of sport to watch, even if it was soccer or women's volleyball.
I started watching OU(Oklahoma University) football with him every season. Then started watching other Big 12 teams(the old Big 12), just to see how the other teams OU would be facing were doing(such as Texas, Oklahoma State, and back then, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, etc). Then that expanded to other conferences, at least for the top teams. I was also doing a driving job at the time, and would listen to the "Sports Animal" on the radio for commentary(I prefer talk radio to music most of the time).
Eventually I became more interested in politics, and my sister divorced that brother-in-law. And none of my other family/friends give a shit about "sportsball".
The nice thing about sports though is that you can actually talk about it at work and no one really gets offended. You can't really do that with politics most of the time. So sports is nice if you're constantly interacted with a lot of random people. For example, when I worked for the railroad, it was all a bunch of blue-collar guys, and most at least followed football on some level(especially Texas vs Oklahoma, or Oklahoma State vs Oklahoma).