I think it also has a lot to do with what you were exposed to when you were a kid.
Example: I grew up playing American football and baseball. I know some of the basic and extensive strategies in the games and can dissect some of it while watching and I know most of the nuisances regarding the rules. As such I continue to enjoy watching the sports and have started teaching my kids the same.
Conversely, I never played soccer or hockey. And while I enjoy watching the high stakes (World and Stanley Cup and playoffs) games, I feel confused a lot of the time as to why this penalty was called or what went wrong that play, and have a general lack of in-depth knowledge of the sports which kind of translates into a feeling of not having a stake in the game.
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