I used to wonder about why some people get so into sports just by watching but then I read about "mirror neurons" in the brain. When one human watches another s

I used to wonder about why some people get so into sports just by watching but then I read about "mirror neurons" in the brain. When one human watches another succeed, fail, jump for joy, cower in terror, etc, the mirror neurons in the brain give the person watching part of that sensation too. I suspect that some people have much stronger mirror neurons which would have the effect that when their favorite team scores a touchdown, they actually feel as though they had participated in the victory. One hypothesis is that mirror neurons developed as a way to help create social bonds through empathy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neuron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neuron